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So i'm showing chickens at my local fair in a couple of weeks and I need a good way to keep my chickens cool. They will be in a dusty barn with little air conditioning with wire cages and pine shavings. Ive heard of lots of ways to keep them cool at home, but what about cages? It will be around...

Thank you all so much for your kind comments!(: I want to do something in agriculture when i get older and so this really was a great learning experience! I don't know how you could prevent this in other chickens... but I do know that this is very common in commercial and heavy-egg laying birds...

Thank you so much for your concern, but im sorry to say she passed away a few hours ago. I was treating her on her while she was laying on her back and she had a heart attack. It was so heartbreaking to see her die right in front of me but because i didn't have answers i decided to giver her an...

Thank you so much for your advice! I just discoverd some new symptoms today and posted and updated thread with pictures, please take a look! https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/781708/new-to-chickens-and-need-help-may-be-a-little-graphic

Hello, this is a little update from one of my other threads since my chickens symptoms changed. I'm very new to raising chickens for 4-H and i just started my flock. I went to an auction and bought a Wyandotte hen who i thing is about a year to two years old. When i brought her home, her nails...

That is a disappointment, but ill love her all the same! Thank you for the article!

Hi, im a teen 4-H member and just started a chicken project about a month ago. So i was at a chicken auction 2 days ago and purchased a wyandotte hen. She had overgrown nails (about 1 1/2 inches long!) and a very severe case of lice. I clipped her nails, bathed her, and treated her for lice and...

Hi, I think one of my chickens may have worms. She is a wyandotte and I got her 2 days ago from an auction. I think she should have been laying by now, she has a horrible case of lice that ive been treating and shes not active at all. She always is laying down but i was thinking that was because...

Hi, i am a 16 year old 4-Her and i just started a chicken project so i'm really new to chickens! I recently last weekend bought a "Araucana" hen at a chicken auction and am planning to show her at the fair in July. I did some reserch on Ameraucana, Araucana, and Easter Egger chickens and i came...