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My little urban flock of two suddenly stopped laying. One is a Breda, about 6 or 7, who takes a LONG winter vacation and isn't the biggest layer but she's fairly consistent this spring and summer so far with maybe three a week. The other is an Easter Egger about 4 years old who has been a DYnamo...

My New Hampshire Red is about 6 years old. She's had thin shelled eggs for a few months, often cracked at the end, sometimes really broken. She doesn't want oyster shell but many days I feed it to her in peanut butter and that seems to help. Lately, when she hasn't had oyster shells (we ran out...

My healthy 16 month old Easter Egger hen died this afternoon pretty suddenly. Yesterday it was maybe 88 degrees and she was fairly sluggish, hanging out in the shade, drinking kind of a lot. I noticed that after she laid an egg she sort of stood over it for a while in the nest box, until I...

I have two pullets, Easter Eggers who are now laying lovely small eggs. I also have two other hens. The young girls still get pushed around some and both do some avoiding/escaping some nights instead of dealing with the roosting order inside the coop. One (Goldie) sometimes goes to roost on the...

Hi Helpful Chicken Folks, My Matilda (who was super hearty and at the top of the heap) started acting listless in June. A vet visited and did stool sample tests and found nothing unusual. I gave her electrolytes with a dropper and she got much better. She's been ok all summer though never...

My awesome, strong, top-of-the-flock Australorp, Matilda, has been listless on and off for a month and the last few days she seems worse. About a month ago she was not eating much and very sedate for two days. I vet I know came by and said she feels/looks ok. She took a poop sample (it looked ok...

Hi My breda has feathers that seem to have fallen out and some that look like new ones coming in, pin feathers. . Her legs are half bare and look awful.. the feathers now start higher than they used to. She picks at her legs and drew a little blood earlier today. She is also walking timidly and...

OK the answer seems obvious but I want some feedback. My girl is very pecked, I think b/c she is not well. She does the backwards walking thing some people call moonwalking and she is missing lots of feathers. I am keeping her separate from the pecker and I am keeping her inside in the basement...

I have three girls who have had a lot of feather pulling issues since last winter. Tried pinless peepers, gave them LOTS more space, but one girl (who kicks her peeper off even if it makes her bleed) still pulls the feathers of one other. Today I came home and saw that my pecked/pulled girl had...

I had four chickens and in February a pecking/feather pulling problem developed and I haven't been able to get rid of it. Three of them peck and it was getting so bad for the one at the bottom, Mel, that I gave her to someone with a much better situation for her. She is much happier but now my...

Hi Folks, My four girls seem to be unlucky with a pecking problem. It started with one pecker in the winter (MA) but even now with them being out a lot more it continues and gets more complex. I have tried keeping them more occupied and changing their diet. I have used Blu Kote on the pecked...

I have four pullets and I'm new at this - I've had them since mid October. They have a clear alpha hen and one who tends to be pushed around by her more than the others. My concern is sleeping in the cold. Tonight the three non-alpha gals went to roost, all cozy next to each other, with the...