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I just picked her up and she yanked my post earring that quick! Gone! What should I do or is there anything I can do?

I have searched for a similar thread and can't find anything. My buff brahma hen [2 1/2 yo] is eating normally, drinking normally, poo is normal. She has NO respiratory symptoms at all. However, the black feathers that normally adorn her neck have recently vanished. She is not molting. She...

Does anyone know if I can use Ivermectin paste 1.87% for oral use in horses (apple flavored) to treat a standard size chicken for worms. My vet recommended Ivermectin, but did not clarify the dose or route. Any thoughts?

This guy was a stray chicken that we rescued. He's sweet, but a bit shy. Just curious his breed. Maybe black copper morans?

I had 3 keet hatch yesterday. 2 are fine. The third I found out of the nesting box(they were hatched by one of my broody hens) on the floor of the coop. The box is floor level so there wasn't a fall but I'm not sure how he got there or for how long he lay there. I immediately placed him back...

My broody hens were setting on four guinea eggs. I came home from work to find three baby keets, and one empty shell. What happened to the forth baby keet or egg? Does anyone have any idea? The girls are in the coop with four other chickens and eight guineas.

I have two broody hens setting on a clutch of eggs due to hatch out tomorrow. Will they remain broody? Can I place more eggs under them or should I give them some time off and for how long? It is so nice having the hens do all the work of hatching the eggs! Any advice is welcome as this is my...

So, brown ticks and deer ticks are really bad in our area. The season is coming as the temps warm. I've pulled 3 from our Labs already! I don't free ranch my chickens and guineas, except on weekends and some weeknights as the days get longer. Obviously, that won't be frequently enough to...

Our bantams just started laying in late September so I'm new to the preparation of these eggs. We started out boiling them for 8 mins, then 7, now we're down to six but the shells continue to stick to the egg pulling a lot of the egg white off with them. At 6 mins the yolks are barely cooked...

Ten days ago I came home from work to find my Millie fluer d'uccle Roo nearly dead in the run after fighting with one of my blue cochin bantam roosters. I've been nursing him back to health and he's doing great. I found a new home for the cochin that beat him up because he had attacked me...

I have 4 hens just 16 weeks and 2 are d'uccles which I think lay white eggs. The other 2 are buff Brahma bantams. Also,I have 2 guinea hens that are about 17-18 weeks old. I vote that it is a Guinea egg but it's my first and the eggs will be similar in appearance between the guinea and the buff...

I recently read where one person uses some sort of pest control for mites or something in the bedding of the coop. I have a small young flock, 8 bantam and 8 guinea fowl, that were all raised together and stay together in the same coop and run. Everyone is healthy thus far and I have no plans...

I'm interested in ideas to heat our coop for the winter. Our coop will be insulated and plywooded by then and the chicken have very nice 4x6 perches to roost on to keep their feet warm. But I want a nice practical and safe way to add some heat. Any suggestions?

I have a porcelain d'uccle roo 12 weeks hand raised and a gorgeous blue Cochin roo. The Cochin is very gentle and an alpha in the coop also 12 weeks. The d'uccle is more aloof and prefers to keep his company to chickens. I really love them but I can't have 4 roos. They have been spoiled and...

I have no experience with hen saddles! Help! Do they keep them on all the time? Just during the day? Can they still fly with them on? I have 4 hens and 4 roos. The poors girls will be worked over very soon if I don't take care of this. They are all 12 weeks old now and the mating play has...

Hi! I'm a new chicken mother this year and I'm thrilled I took on the new roll. My first and foremost goal for my feathered family is safety from predators, which at 12 weeks so far so good! Lots of research and hard work went into preparing their new home and we are probably a bit overboard...