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We are down to our final hen, a 3 year old barred rock. We are ready to get out of the chicken business (hobby) so we don't want to add to our flock. We once took in a hen in this situation from a friend, and our flock bullied her for months before she was finally accepted by them. I do not...

I'm thinking one (or more) of my girls has started eating their eggs. From four laying hens we have been getting 2-3 eggs a day. In the past week we've had several days with no eggs, but sometimes signs that an egg was broken in the nesting box (wet, slimy wood shavings). If they are eating...

We have two Ameraucanas (the last of our first foray into hens) who have moved out on their own. After a few predator attacks in our yard (which is surrounded by a 4 ft fence) they moved into a neighbor's tree. They free range during the day and sleep in the tree at night. This has been going...

My hens have been roosting in a tree for months now - we just can't get them to go in the coop anymore. They live in a fenced in yard, not very secure. This morning we found one hen (out of just three) outside of the fenced area waiting to be let back in, and one hen was missing altogether...

One of our ameraucana hens is regularly waking up the neighborhood between 5:30 and 5:45 every morning. She sounds like a combination of a rooster and a sick goose, going at it at the top of her lungs. She has taken to roosting way up in a tree and we can't get her down at night to go in the...

I have a 3 year old silver laced wyandotte who is not doing well. She hates to be handled, so I was surprised that she let me come right up and stroke her today. She's lying in the sun, I thought enjoying this beautiful day. Then I noticed her butt is incredibly poopy, and kind of oozing and...

Our 4 hens have now managed to pretty much destroy our fenced in backyard (approx 75' by 100') this spring. I don't think any grass is going to grow back unless we limit their wanderings and scratchings. Will something like this (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000VXYV6K/ref=oss_product)...

We had been getting 3-4 eggs a day, one white, two brown, one green (and one ameracauna who apparently hasn't laid yet at all). Suddenly a week ago that went down to 1-2 eggs a day, always one white, sometimes one brown (pretty sure the browns now are all from the same hen). I know they are...

We just started getting our first eggs (or so we thought). At least 2 of our 5 hens have been laying, as we've been getting brown eggs and green eggs. No white ones from our one white leghorn yet . . . or so we thought. This afternoon we opened up the kids sandbox for the first time in weeks...

I have 5 girls living in my backyard. It's a good sized yard, and fenced in, and everything is going well. But sometimes the hens forget that it is our yard too! They love to hang out on the picnic table, and now seem to spend a lot of time on our back step looking in through the glass door...

After a lot of talk, and relatively little work, I'd like to introduce to you the Little Tikes Henhouse. There is clearly some more work to be done to get ready for hot weather in the summer and cold weather in the winter, and also some nest boxes for when the girls get to that age. But for...

My girls (I hope they're girls, please tell me if you think any are not) are now 7 weeks old. I'm a newbie, and relied on the extensive help of the person at Meyers in picking breeds. She also sent me the print catalogue so I'd have pictures of chicks to help me figure out which was which when...

I have 5 chicks, 5 1/2 weeks old. The 2 Ameraucanas, 1 Speckled Sussex, and 1 Silver Laced Wyandotte are all about the same size. The 1 White Leghorn is only about half as big. They all seem to eat well, are active and happy. This is my first time as a chick mom, so I don't know if the...

Hi there. We have 5 5-week old chicks we're hoping to move out of the guest bedroom in the next couple of weeks. We're planning to cobble together our own coop for now and see how that goes, but I have lots of questions. Our situation: We live in a suburban area with a large yard surrounded...