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I have a 7 mo old Jersey Giant roo who was limping pretty badly after a racoon got into the coop a week and a half ago. We brought him inside, put antibiotic ointment onto the place where skin was broken (it seemed like his knee had been skinned almost, not so much puncture wound) and have been...

Our3 year old blue laced red wayandotte is off his game. It's been about a week since he crowed (otherwise he crows all day -- the silence is deafening), his wattles are getting paler. He seems slower than he normally is. And he spends more time inside the coop during the day than normal. And...

On Saturday, one of our hens (2 year old gold laced wyandotte) was attacked by something in the neighborhood -- not sure what. She seemed to be missing some feathers on her back, but other than a slight limp seemed not much worse for the wear. However, just now we have discovered an open wound...

My hen is in one of our nest boxes, and lately I've noticed tiny black bugs running about that area. Are those lice? And what can I do to help her? SHe's still got about two weeks to go before the eggs hatch. Thanks for any help, Siouxbee

We usually remove our hens from the coop the night before the eggs are due to hatch. But then I have hen and babies in our downstairs tub until they're old enough to integrate into the flock. Since the second hen is sitting on eggs and I'm already ready to be done with the first batch in the...

My poor hen. She sat on eggs since April 22. None of those hatched -- some fell out the back of the coop before I got the bright idea to put a board across, and those that were left and were marked with the date must've been infertile -- she broke them underneath her and my god what a stink! I...

The front corner of his eye has a big ball of spit on it. I'm posting a pic, but the ball of spit is about half the size it was before I went off to find the camera. He seems ok, and is more perturbed by my harassing him with the camera than he seems about his eye. A Blue Laced Red Wyandotte...

Hi all -- We have a small flock -- 7 adults from last year, and 9 babies hatched at the end of July by one of our hens. Yesterday, we were outside having a halloween party in our back yard, so I grabbed the bag of peanuts I wanted to toss around the yard for the game and lured the flock into...

our hens were sneaky about getting other eggs underneath the broody hen while she was still in the henhouse. She hatched out 7 chicks over the course of two days last Thursday (so almost a week and a half ago). Three eggs that had been placed in the nest later (I marked the original batch)...

I've got a hen sitting on 12 eggs, although only 6-8 have the same-ish start date. that's a whole 'nother post ;-) anyway. I got to thinking that "natural selection" has pared our flock down to only 7, including our rooster. I'd like to keep some of the chicks if they hatch and are female. But...

Tomorrow she'll have been sitting for one week on the eggs. When we came home today she was out in the yard. More my fault though, because due to space limitations, she's still in the regular coop nestbox where she started, and since everyone was piling on and still laying in that box, I've...

I've got a year old BLRW hen brooding 8 eggs (potentially laid up to 3 days apart -- oops). She's in everyone's favorite nest box, so I've blocked it off with a piece of wood and a bungie cord, and she came out today to get a drink of water, so I know she can get out. I'm worried about...

One of our BLRW's has gone broody. I think she's been in the box 2, possibly 3 days. I have 7 hens, 1 roo. They're in a 4 x 8 coop with 4 nestboxes (2 over 2), two of which use the exterior wall as their wall, and since I never got around to putting that roof on, the hay in those can get damp...

This past week I've noticed my hens stools have changed dramatically. I live in CT and yes it's been very spring like these past couple of weeks, so they are definitely probably finding more in terms of foraging in the woods. I have a small flock of seven hens (speckled sussex, americauna, gold...

Well, i hadn't had a chance to come back after posting until my previous topic was closed, but that long post bout the roosters was amazing and I wish I had stumbled across it before I had chickens, as mine are all almost a year old now. But, you live and learn, I guess. I'd talked to a couple...

i got silkies as an afterthought because the woman who ordered the chicks for me had them and they were so cute. well, now, both have turned out to be roos, and we already had one roo from our not-sexed blue laced red wyandottes. 3 roos, 7 hens. not good, I know, but I don't know of anyone...

is there a way to encourage them to go broody? Or, what if this might be the only time we'd like to hatch baby chick? Would encouraging it now lead to problems later? How would you do it? I got chicks last April and May -- 7 hens, 3 roosters, with 2-4ish eggs a day. 6 wyandottes, 1 speckled...

Our lawn is in pretty bad shape, and we were going to re-seed this year by raking good and putting down appropriate grass seed. But duh, I won't be able to free range my hens during this time, right? They'll just eat it all up. I don't have a big run for them (7 hens, 3 roos in a 4 x 8 coop...

I have 7 hens, of whom at least 6 if not all 7 seem to be laying. We usually get at least 3 or 4 eggs a day. But today, there were none! We collect eggs at least 2 x a day (I have small children for whom this is very exciting, so on a good day, we virtually harass the poor hens by peeping...

my coop is small -- 4 x 8, and only about 3 feet tall. I've got four nest boxes (2 over 2, 12 high x 12across x 18 deep) and 7 hens, 2 of whom are laying (as well as three roosters -- ack!) since only a couple of girls are laying, I find that the other hens are using the nest boxes to roost...