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Hi. I posted on Friday regarding what seemed like a constipated hen. This is our first sick hen, I guess we have been lucky. So now I am thikning we should just kill her so she does not suffer anymore. Friday night we attempted a number of things with some help from a very wonderful friend...

One of our three year old hens is currently bloated with yellowish poop down her back side and a long piece of poop of hanging from her vent. She is very puffed up and is not able to move very well. Our vet just offer to put her to sleep but we really want to try to save her. Please help us...

Every year our two White Cochine Frizzles go broody. And every year they lose weight and their feathers. On Sat. we put a couple of duck eggs our friends gave us under one of them. Today she is very pale and I am concerned about her. I am wondering if there is something I can do to better...

We have a hen who is just over a year old who has been in perfect health. Two days ago she began walking around with her body very low down, almost touching the ground. We have never seen her do this before. We are concerned that there maybe something wrong with her but have no clue what to...

Our newest cat can not seen to keep his collar on. I am guessing he loses them when he gets caught on something as it does not seem to bother him in the house and he can go weeks without lossing one. We really want to keep ID on him because we do not trust our new neighbors who we believe...

Not really sure about the best place to post this but this seems to make sense. We have had a terrible problem with pecking this winter. About 75% of our girls have no feathers what so ever on their, not sure of the technical term but , rump. Y'all can probably help me out with the name...

I was hoping to ask a few questions of the person who built this coop: https://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=2814 But I do not know how to figure out who built it. Would someone please help me out?

Hello everyone. I am purchasing a home and getting ready to move. I will need to build another coop and am wondering if I need to make space to keep the hens and the soon to be arriving rooster in separate areas. Thanks for your ideas

We are free ranging our girls and as the temperature is slowly but surely dropping I am beginning to wonder about cold weather and free ranging. Do people ever leave the chikens in the coop due to cold weather? How cold is too cold? Would it better to leave them in the run rather than let...

Has anyone ever does this? I have one hen laying outside under the coop. I have tried putting a plastic easter egg, which worked for the others, as well as a golf ball in the nesting boxes in the coop to no avail. So I thought, why don't I just put a box under the coop. That way the egg...

I had the good fortune over the weekend to sit in the coop and watch our only layer, lay an egg. I found one aspect of it to very interesting. She got in the nest and settled in. She sat there for bit but then came back out. She walked around the coop picking up feathers and big pieces of...

Hello. I am concerned about our Arcauna, Cookie. She is eleven weeks old. She has lived with five other birds and tended to be the dominate one. Two weeks ago we added our birds to another flock of similiar ages. Yesterday we noticed that Cookie is missing a large number of feathers on her...

Good morning everyone! Things are going so nicely around our house since the coop has been completed and the girls are in it! Thank you all for earlier help. I just read this morning that it is important to care for the Frizzles' feathers so they do not become brittle. Unforunately, the...

Hello everyone. I have been watching this board for several weeks now, since before our chicks first arrived. You all have been very, very helpful. In my research, I read that at age 8 wks I should mix oats into my starter/grower crumble slowly until about 50/50. My question seems sort of...