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Patty is spending her first night back in the barn tonight after a week in the house. she went to roost last night, but it's been so cold i brought her down to the house. warmer tonight so i left her snuggled on the roost with other hens. whatever was wrong seems to have righted itself--maybe...

hi everyone, i forgot to tell you my name is Joy, but "Joy" was taken by another chicken lover, so i used initials, bjh, to sign on. well, my little girl seems to be much better, but if she's still not roosting when i go up to the barn tonight i'll bring her down to the house. i have a batch...

i wouldn't have thought it would make that much difference, but the energy saver compact florescent bulbs have really reduced my electric bill, even here in the dead of winter when i'm usually paying $20 more a month than i am now, plus i have added a small electric heater that i have to run on...

this is very interesting. i, too, thought i had an egg bound hen. she was squatting. so i brought her in the house where she enjoyed meandering around in my tiny kitchen, pecking at the compost and basically making herself right at home. i put her in a box when i had to leave the room and...

i've been ordering chickens from MM for years in batches of 25--75. except for the ones damaged in transit, which MM prompty credited me for, i have only ever lost ONE chick, a top hat. i ordered the top hats for a friend; they were the tiniest things i've ever seen, but only lost the one, and...

i had great success treating a chick (only a week or two old) by opening a capsule of ampicillin and dissolving in a tablespoon of water. give a few drops with an eye dropper 3 times a day. sounds to me like she has a respiratory infection. hold her up to your ear and see if you can hear...

I lent all my chicken books to someone, now I cannot figure out the posterior anatomy. Which orifice do I explore to remove a stuck egg? thank you for any help you can give me for this perplexing problem. joy