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We've had a major Spring thaw and I'm concerned that my chickens, who are dying to get back out, will contract some kind of disease from all of the rotten materials left from Fall. Is this a valid concern? It seems to me that our chickens have gotten some disease almost every Spring and I...

Our small group of 4 free range chickens came down with a bout of some intestinal disease about 1 1/2 weeks ago. They stopped laying and have yet to resume although they are much happier and are back to ranging and foraging. How long is it likely to be before they resume laying? I was...

Hi..... I'm a a loss as to why my Amber Star chicken, who laid an egg every day almost for her first summer, suddenly had eggs with soft shells and then quit laying eggs completely. Now, over a year and a half later she still hasn't resumed laying. Nevertheless, almost every day she will go...

My one and only Welsummer started laying very small eggs in August and kept laying very small eggs till about the end of September. Then she just plain quit and hasn't laid one since. We are keeping the light in the coop at about 15 hours, so she should never have quit. Any ideas?

My Astralorp recently started laying and unlike the Black Star and the Ginger Spice, she will not lay in a box with an egg in it. She wiggles around until she is able to toss it out. This of course breaks the egg. We have tried golf balls which she tosses across the whole coop. Now we...

I'm relatively new to chicken raising as I started with 4 pullets in May.....Three of them are now laying with our Americauna yet to get started. It's really been lots of fun and the girls and I are on about the same learning curve. In addition to the Americauna I have a Black Star, a...