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Hey guys and gals, haven't been on here in months. Anyways, I noticed one of my Barred Rock hens acting funny the other day. Yesterday evening she was all fluffed up sitting on the roost when I went to feed and when I went to get the eggs out of the box she hopped down and chased the other hens...

Hello, I have a brown leghorn hen that's just started to lay, about 6 months old. I've gotten four mini eggs from her, is this okay? Will she start laying average eggs sometime? The brown one is from one of my older hens, about 11 months, and she only did that once and is back to normal.

I have one "Easter egger" rooster that has became a problem. He about killed one of my hens by excessive mounting and I had to take her out of the pen and bathe her because him mounting her had pushed her into mud and her feathers were CAKED in mud/poop. Well she got her strength back and today...

I've read that white artificial light sometimes causes pecking. Is this true? I would think that they would just think of it as normal daylight and not change their actions much.

Hello, I have 7 hens (1 Silver Lakenvelder, 3 Black Australorp, and 3 Barred Rock) and only 6 had been laying but recently all but one suddenly stopped laying and the one that does lay is only laying about every other day. A couple of the BA's have bald spots on their heads but feathers seem to...

Lately I've been quite amazed with my two Black Australorp roosters. Whenever I treat my birds (usually some bread) my hens are wild and will pretty much eat my hand in the rush of eating some bread but my two roosters will be gentlemen and just stand back and let their ladies eat. And when they...

Hello, I have two "batches" of chickens. One batch being 7-8 months old (7 hens, 2 roosters) and the other almost 5 months old (3 hens, 2 roosters). My question is how could I go about putting the younger ones in with the older ones? I've had the younger ones in a small pen touching the older...

I've been noticing this for a little while but it's gotten worse, one of my black australorp hens head is losing its feathers behind the comb. Other than this, she's normal and still acting just fine. I'm thinking it's either part of molting or one of my roosters is pulling the feathers...

Is it normal or okay for a hen to randomly stop laying? I have a silver lakenvelder and she just started laying a couple weeks ago and would lay about every other day and sometimes 2 days in a row the 2 days off, but she stopped laying and hasn't layed in over a week. Side note: she's the...

Okay, so it's bragging time. I came home from school today and found two eggs! My chickens are just under five months old. I was so happy and excited! I think one was from a barred rock and the other a black Australorp because they were slightly different colors and one had tiny white dots all...

Well, i made a nipple waterer out if PVC piping and a 5 gallon bucket for my flock of 9 the other day. They learnt pretty quick but i still haven't took the normal water dish from them because i haven't seen every one of them use it yet. But if some haven't learnt, they should get it pretty...

Does anyone know what a black Australorp rooster mixed with a barred rock hen would make? Or would it just simply be a mix? I've searched for it but all that i could find was people mixing a barred rock rooster with a black australorp hen.

I got some new chicks today and i was wondering if anyone knew what breed they are. They're really young and still have the little tooth on their beaks for opening the shell. I got three of each.

I have chickens that are a little over a month old and instead of roosting on their roosts at night they lay right together in a sort of ball in a corner of the run and sleep. During the day they play on the roosts and in the evenings they all sit there for a few minutes then hop off and find a...

I'm thinking about getting a pair of Guineas but my problem is that the only place I could put them after they grow up would be in the same run with my chickens, two of which being roosters. And they're all around two months old now. Would it be okay to add the Guineas in with the chickens...

All ten of my chickens are shaking their heads every few seconds..they're young but fully feathered now and I just put them outside a couple days ago and today they've started their shaking. Any ideas of what it might be and how to fix the problem?

All of my ten chickens which are a couple months old or so are shaking their heads every few seconds. I just put them outside a couple days ago and then they started the head shaking.

Anyone know what breed of chicken this is?

Out of my seven straight run chicks I got a few weeks ago I got two roosters..will they bother each other and fight when they get older or will they be fine together? They're both Black Australorp.

I have a chick which I suspect is a Sebright but I'm not sure.. Any opinions??