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All of my hens have stopped laying. Two have reasonable excuses (one orpington is broody and the other mixed breed is raising baby chicks.) But the other two (different ages, another oprington and mixed breed) have just stopped for no apparent reason. They did lay pretty good through the winter...

My broody hen was sitting on eggs when we decided to move her to a safer, more protected spot. We moved her/them at night and I stayed with her a while to make sure she would stay with the new nest, but when we woke up, she had abandoned the eggs to move back to the old nest. I don't know how...

I accidentally broke one of the eggs my broody hen is sitting on. I feel terrible. But since it was already broken, I opened it up to see how they were developing and wanted to share. This egg is about a week old. You can already see the wings and of course the eyes. She has 9 more eggs...

My alpha hen went broody last week, and I noticed that the other hens seemed to have stopped laying. However, today I discovered they've been laying in the goat's dog-gloo house, which is way up under the deck and difficult (for me) to get to. Any ideas to get them laying in the coop again...

One of our hens went broody this past week so we are letting her sit on the eggs and hopefully hatch some out. We're in the mid-south where the weather depends on the day. We had ice and snow last week, and it will be in the 60's this weekend. What are the chances of this being successful? Will...

When we let the chickens out this morning, we noticed our rooster has a bloody throat. He is the only rooster with 4 hens. What on earth could have happened? I don't have any Blue Coat. Is there anything else I can put on him? Thanks!

Two of my buff orpingtons are not laying yet. Today, my older son brought in the eggs from the coop and this solid white one was among them. I know exactly which hens laid the brown/cream eggs, but the white one is a mystery. So I broke open a "home grown" egg next to the white egg. The white...

I had 2 hens and rooster, an established (small) flock. I added 2 younger buff orpingtons, slowly, but they were both rejected by them all. The hens chased them and pecked at them, and the rooster would chase them away. They still hadn't been accepted when a stray dog broke into the coop and...

Last night my roo and 2 of the 4 hens were not in the coop when I went to lock them up (they had been free ranging that afternoon.) I left the door open for several more hours, hoping they'd come back. This morning I heard my roo (he has a very peculiar crow) across the pond in a neighbor's...

I got these 2 buff orpington girls today from a lady who, I think, said they are 6 months old. I'm thinking that can't be right; they seem a lot younger. They're still making peeping noises, although it might just be the breed? How old would you say they are? (The bowls in the crate are my...

Recently we lost a hen when she was in the yard, and then a huge Wellsummer rooster when something literally tore open their pen, pulling out staples and twisting the wire back. Yesterday we heard a terrible ruckus about 8 am and looked out to see a fox furiously circling their pen. My son ran...

I'm only wanting 2 or 3 chicks, and have had success ordering from My Pet Chicken before, but they are "out" of the breed I want and there is no expected date of when they'll have more. Is there another company without a large minimum order? By the way, I'm wanting a lavender orpington, blue...

I got a year old lavender orpington rooster yesterday. He is beautiful! And friendly. His name is Mr. Darcy (after the character in Pride & Prejudice.) He has a creamy beigey/yellow color in some of his hackles that I didn't think lavenders were supposed to have. Not complaining... I adore this...

I have 1 rooster and 5 hens. This is his second year and he has started hurting one of my hens. She has a large hole poked in the side of her face, near what I think is her ear. I put Neosporin on it, but it looks pretty bad and I'm not sure it will heal on its own. She is also missing feathers...

My 2 Speckled Sussex hens are 7 months old. They are laying almost everyday, and their eggs are fertilized by our rooster, but they (the eggs) are still quite small, about half the size of our Barred Rock and Easter Egger eggs. Will they get larger as the hens age? The hens are normal size.

I only have 5 hens and 1 roo, and we are wanting to raise our first batch of meat birds. Our hens are Barred Rock, Easter Egger, and Speckled Sussex. Since the Barred Rock is the biggest, I thought her offspring with the Wellsummer roo would make the biggest chickens to process. Anyone have...

We have a Wellsummer rooster that is 4 1/2 months right now (not even crowing yet) and a Dominique hen that's a little older. In the spring, we would like to hatch out some eggs for chickens to harvest from these two. We chose them b/c they are the biggest of our flock. My question is, at what...

We have a 3 1/2 month old Wellsummer rooster that is favoring one leg. I've looked at his feet/legs and can't find any injury, thorn, or anything else. He is the only rooster we have. Is there something more I should look for? Anything I can do?

Hi, I have 3 adult chickens and 3 (3-month old) chickens, one of which is a rooster. I've kept the younger ones in a temporary coop next to the bigger ones thus far. I let them all out to forage during the day, but they pretty much stay separate except when forced together; then, the leader of...

We put our 4 baby chicks (5 weeks old) outside in a run, close to the "big" chicken coop where the adult hens are so they can get used to each other. I put a dog crate inside the run for the baby chicks to sleep in, but they prefer to sleep next to the edge of the run. Last night a raccoon...