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Our hens are finally starting to lay again! Since Fall we have only had about one or two eggs every few days. Our Olive Egger and Bantam Cochin laid their first eggs this week! Now if only our Polish, our Easter Eggers and Americaunas will start laying again. They have not laid an egg since...

If you have roosters and hens together what are you feeding? Right now I am feeding my flock "Nutrena All Flock" because we have some young pullets and some laying age. Just found out one hen is actually a roo. Had planned to switch them all to layer feed in the spring but found out roos can't...

Cracked open one of our eggs this morning and found this. Ewww... Is it a fertilized egg? We have only just discovered that one of our bantams is a roo, but don't think is old enough or big enough to breed with our big girls....at least yet. Thoughts?

We have the sweetest Bantam Lavendar Ameraucana! Now the question is, is it a "he" or a "she". Always thought it was a Pullet but now beginning to think we have a little Roo. I swear sometimes "she" is trying to crow and now I see her tail feathers are getting longer, like a roosters tail...

We have two Rhode Island Reds, two Ameraucanas, one Australorp, one Easter Egger and 6 polish that were all laying eggs pretty regularly. We haven't had but one or two eggs a week for over a month now. On Friday, Sept 4th everyone got a dose of Ivermectin, so at least we haven't had to throw...

Okay so I did a Google search trying to find out if my goat is pregnant or not and funny that I find a response on the Backyard Chickens Forum! I see some other posts about pregnant goats, guess it is hard to tell if they are fat or pregnant! We bought a goat about 3 months ago to keep a foal...

Okay, we converted an old carport into a coop. We think it looks pretty nice and the ladies love it! We used fencing from an old dog run to fence in the front and back. We have put wireing all around the outside of the coop to keep critters out. They also have a fenced in yard that they run...

I'm such an idiot! I overdosed my chickens on this stuff today. Have I hurt them? I thought the package said 1/2 package per gallon. They had access to it all day. I have dumped it and given them fresh water.

Okay, this hen is acting fine,eats fine and half her face is fine, than wham, turn her around and her eye is huge and red! What is wrong? She does sound like she can't breath through a stuffy nose so I gave her Tylan 50 and dropped some VetRx in her eye. In other ideas?

How ofen do you disinfect your coop? What do you use? We clean the coop once a week, really scrub down the roosts, sweep up all the poo and spilled feed, etc, but was wondering how often do we need to disinfect the surfaces? I read some people use vinegar, some use bleach mixtures...what...

Oh my...I just read that you don't let chicks younger than 18 weeks eat layer feed. Mine were eating starter feed for about a month and about two weeks ago we put them all on layer feed because we let them out with the big girls. We were supplying both starter feed and layer feed but everyone...

I have a young Lavendar Ameraucana, about 10 or 11 weeks old. We got her on July 20th and she was about 3 or 4 weeks old then. She is pretty ugly right now, losing a lot of feathers, and she is smaller than the other chicks we bought at the same time of the same age, but they are different...

About a month ago we had some chickens get pretty sick. Everyone got a shot of penicillin, some TLC and they all pulled through just fine with the exception of my little Copper Maran "Miranda". She had a snotty nose and was a little lethargic, that was really her ownly symptoms. Now she seems...

Found one really sick hen tonight, her eyes are swollen . One eye is caked shut and she has a snotty nose. How do I know if it's a cold or infectious coryza? We isolated her for the night and will clean her up tomorrow and see if we can find tylan to give her. If it is coryza are her eggs...

We just bought some hens that were said to have been laying eggs, but that they may not lay right away because they need time to settle in and get comfortable with their new home. Well now I am wondering if we need to worry about the eggs being fertilized or not as the hens were running free...