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I have a hen that is "sneezing" it's like a high pitched squeak and when she does this, clear fluid shoots from her bottom (like poo, but it's not). Also, her bottom (under vent) is bald and flaming red. She also started losing all of her back feathers where hens then started pecking her. She...

For a while I have noticed that my Easter Egger Hen has had a bald bottom. I thought it was a part of the molting process. But it has been forever and there is not much growth of feathers, only stubs of feathers.. Her bottom looks red and irritated in areas where it is bald. I have also noticed...

Hi there. I have recently fallen in love with the dark rich color of the Maran's egg. I would like to get some but don't know very much about them. I live in southeast Michigan. Are they hearty, do they tolerate cold, are there eggs large? Etc. Any help would be great! J.

Hi there. I have four hens now and will be getting four more in a couple of weeks. I would love to let my hens free range, but two problems arise. One, we have a lot of hawks in the area that would love to eat them if given the chance and two, we have woods on one side of our property (that...

Last year we went to the county fair and laying out were dozens and dozens of eggs in the produce barn (for judging). As I went around to look at them, I found a couple dozen that were deep brown with darker brown speckles. They were beautiful. But oddly enough, there were no labels anywhere to...

Hi there. I have chicken droppings mixed with wood shavings from my coop. I am wondering how to incorporate this (or if I can) into my vegetable garden for fertilizer? How long does it have to sit? Can I put it in the soil right away? Will the woodchips decompose in the soil or will they hurt...

Hi there. I was wondering if anyone knows of a hatchery or someone who sells chicks from hatchery orders in South East Michigan? We live just south of Ann Arbor MI. I only want 4 or 5, so I cannot order them through the mail. I bought chicks from a man in Belleville MI last spring. He orders...

Hi there. Looking for some advice on my Silver Laced Wyandotte (almost a year in April). Over the last couple of weeks, she has stayed out of the coop now and then at night, while the others go in. I have had to physically put her in. Now, this morning, I let them all out and she stayed on...

Hi there. I have a buff orpington who will be one in April. I live in MI (cold and snowy) and the hens have the opportunity to stay in the coop or go out in the run. For some reason this hen was outside still by herself last night when I went out to close the coop for the night. I put her in...

Hi there. I have five hens in my coop/run. They will be 1 yr in April. They were laying pretty consistently for a good long while but now that the weather is really cold here in Michigan and the days are shorter I am only getting about one egg a day and sometimes no egg. I am wondering how...

Hi there. Today we went back to let our six chickens out to free range. When they all came out I noticed that my 5 month old silkie chicken was staggering around...leaning to and falling on his right side. He was falling a lot and staggering a lot. I am not sure what is going on with him. They...

I have a five month old silkie rooster. All the others are different types of hens in our coop. They have normal feathers that are waterproof, however the silkie does not. We were gone all day and it was raining all day and the temp was about 55 degrees. When I came home the it was dark. I...

Hi there. I live in South East Michigan. I have six chickens, 2 silver laced wyandottes, 1 buff orpington, 2 easter eggers, 1 silkie rooster. Winter will be here before I know it and it got me thinking about how they are all going to stay warm enough in the winter. Do I need to put a heat...

Okay, so I got a silkie, it turned out to be a rooster. It does not roost like the other hens I have. He instead, sleeps and poops in the nesting boxes. Is there a solution to this problem. I am tired of the nesting boxes being filled with poop. I cannot believe how much poop accumulates from...

Is it okay to use straw instead of pine shavings in the hen house? What are the pros and cons? Thanks. J.

So I am new to chickens this year. All of my chickens of laying age are finally laying. They do this thing....not sure how to explain it.... Just before they started laying and now that they are laying if you pet them or stroke them or approach them, they "huncker-down". They squat and expand...

I have 5 hens that were born on April 1st. ONLY ONE IS LAYING? I am new to this, so I don't know if this is normal. I have 2 silver laced wyandotte's (one of them is laying) 1 Buff Orpington 2 Easter Eggers Shouldn't they be laying by now? Could I be doing something wrong? J.

Hi there. I have 2 silver laced wyandottes, 1 buff orpington and 1 easter egger. They are all the same age. Born April 1st. So that makes them roughly almost 21 weeks old. ONLY 1 of the silver laced wyandotte's have started laying and that was three weeks ago. No else is. They are eating...

Hi there. I am new to having a Silkie chicken. She isn't full grown just yet. I have noticed that she does not roost like all the others, she does not roost at all (should I have a lower roost in the hen house for her?). She sleeps in the nesting boxes at night. She doesn't seem to flap or fly...

Well, I have a rooster (Easter Egger) who is about 4 months old. He started crowing about three days ago. Two days ago he turned into satan, I mean he got aggressive. He was very docile and nice up until that point. My little girl was able to pick him up and carry him around. Now we are afraid...