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I know this is one of the most asked questions around here, but there are so many specifics when figuring things out that i would like some personalized input. i have had a flock for 6 years now, but the "fall" (yeah, the foot of snow on the ground suggests we missed that) we are planning on...

i have an issue where my hens won't leave any bedding in the nest boxes they are currently using. my 14 hens generally pick two boxes they will use, changing things up every few weeks. the boxes themselves are plywood, and i have used straw, shredded paper, and (most often) wood shavings as...

i have a hen, my only Delaware, who has no feathers on her head. i'm pretty sure the other hens have pulled them all out (i have seen them jumping on her and pecking her head some times). but there is no blood or signs of injury at all, just no feathers. should i worry about her? other...

i have 5 leghorn hens, 3 white and 2 brown, that are all about a year and a half. none of their combs are flopping over like they are supposed to. shouldn't they by this age? they've been laying for over a year now. or is it more likely that they just won't, probably do to being hatchery...

i have 14 hens and a rooster, mixed breed flock, all between 1 and a half and 2 and a half. i am getting an average of 6 eggs a day. on occasion when i go out to collect them there is will one box with all of the eggs covered in what i am pretty sure is yoke and on very rare occasion i will...

i have the option of getting a few hundred pounds of hog feed in exchange for a few dozen eggs. the feed is from a guy how gets it from a mill, rather than mass-produced. it is mostly corn, with some vitamins and minerals added. does anyone know if it is ok to feed this to my chickens? i know...

i recently noticed that my almost-11 month old Polish rooster has an issue with his foot. now that i'm starting to let them out of the coop, i can see that he is limping and favoring that foot. it does seem to be getting worse, but when he is in the coop it didn't seem to be a problem...

i'm sure there is already a decent explanation of this here somewhere, but i'm having a hard time finding it, so i'm going to ask again. what is the differences between the three blue/green egg laying breeds (or are there more that i don't know of?). i have some info already. it is my...

i have a hen that i noticed this morning seems to be prolapsed. her rear end is sticking out and hugely swollen. and bleeding. i got her in isolation, but i was running late for work as it was so i just gave her some food and water and put her in a large cardboard box in my garage. it is...

i have i think 2 chicks that are now almost 12 weeks old that i have yet to identify. the first one started out all white but as she grew she started to get some dark in her tail and some flecking on her neck. i'm pretty sure she has a normal comb. this one is smaller than the rest of...

i have one chick (about 11 weeks old right now) that is very much the bottom of the pecking order. i noticed sunday that she looked a bit weak, i think she has been having trouble getting to the feed enough. i brought her into the garage in a spare rabbit cage and gave her some food. she ate...

My chicks, hatched May 31st, have been in an enclosure in the coop with my year old hens for several weeks. This morning they decided to all be one flock. I went out to find the chicks in the main area and two of my ISAs in the enclosure. Not really sure what happened but everyone looks ok, so...

unfortunately i don't really have any decent photos of what i'm talking about, so i will try to describe it well enough. i got a "rainbow layer" assortment of chicks this spring, and i suspect the three white ones are all leghorns. is it normal for leghorn pullets to have much more upright...

i have a hen that has been broody for a few weeks now. she seems to be getting up to eat and drink, and i remove her from the nest box every time i go out to the coop, but she is being stubborn. i want to break her broodiness, especially since i don't have a rooster and don't really have room...

i have a 2 month old Polish chick that got out of the chick pen in the coop and was beat up by the year old hens a while back. she has been in isolation since but is all healed up nicely and i think it is past time to put her back with the other chicks (13 others, same age as her). i'm a little...

one of my chicks, a 6 week old Polish, got out of the enclosure i had her and the other 14 chicks in in the coop with my 8 hens. apparently they didn't like that, and her head and neck got pretty seriously pecked. i found her when i went to let the hens out to free range, and she was laying on...

i was wondering if any of the people on here who have etsy stores would be interested in listing it here. i, for one, like to support people i "know" and have a tendency to waste a good bit of time wandering through etsy. i don't have a store, but i know at least some people here do. so, if...

for a while now i have been getting eggs that seem rather long and narrow. i think it is one hen laying the, since there is never more than one a day, and they are always the same shade of brown. i will try to get a pic of it today if there is one, tomorrow if not. they really don't fit right...

this is more a general question than a specific identification thread. since EEs can come in pretty much any color (are there any they don't come in?), how can you tell if a chicken is an EE (other than egg color, of course)? are there other traits that indicate they are EEs? thanks

my 15 chicks have decided they need more space and i'm not quite ready to move them to the coop with my 8 hens. i was hoping to keep them where they are until this weekend, but considering the two injured ones i noticed yesterday, i don't think i can. they will be 4 weeks old on friday. my...