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Please advise! I just noticed this spot on my Hen's beak. It almost looks like, it's rotting ???? She also has a tiny bald spot on her neck but other than that she's behaving normally with eating, dust bath, egg production etc. I'm praying she's just rubbed it against the hardware mesh but I...

Thank you for the advice. I added an extra run and roost. When I let them out to free range the two pullets go one way and the others go another. If the Pullets go inside to roost for the evening the others sleep on an outside roost in the run. They literally won't be in the same "room"...

I have 4 hens who are just over a year old. I recently introduced 2 new pullets and it's not going well. I did everything that was suggested: for several weeks I took the pullets outside for playtime in a dog crate so the others could see and hear them. I added on an additional run for more...

Thanks for the tips. They do free range several hours each day so I check the yard from time to time for eggs. I didn't know they made poultry nets. Brilliant! They are so dang fast I can't even manage to catch them with a towel. I'm convinced they have eyes in the back of their head. I...

I'm beginning to worry about my 2 EE Bantams. The Sussex and Red Star laid at 6 months. They are all 8 months old now and even with daylight savings, the big girls lay almost everyday. The bantams-nothing. I've looked around the yard for eggs just in case the big girls were not allowing the...

My 6 mo Sussex began laying last weekend-daylight savings time. She laid an egg almost everyday for five days but nothing since. I just checked her rear and didn't feel an egg or a nothing hard. No evidence of egg eating and searched the yard for an egg. She did sit on my other pullets egg...

The day has arrived!! It's been almost 6 months and I finally got my first egg today!! Unfortunately it was cracked and wasn't in the nesting box but on the coop floor. It was a large brown egg which is a shame. Questions. Do they lay around the same time everyday and do they know to go to the...

I need to start a new thread about how to make your chickens love you. I spoiled them but I call them brats because they don't want to be touched or held anymore. I got them at three days old and held them everyday so they would be accustomed to it as they grew but it hasn't worked and it makes...

I've actually read that cockerels are sweeter than pullets when young and then it reverses when they hit maturity. My 4 month olds will peck my hands sometimes because they are spoiled brats ( who did that to them) and expect treats to be in them at all times. I had a bandaid on my finger the...

Thanks. Right now they are in time out. I don't know if they realize that. Thursday night my bantams went missing. Had neighbors helping me look with flashlights and I was in full panic. Next am I got up at dawn and they flew out of a tree at me bad girls. I had looked and called in that area...

Question. Mine are only 17 weeks and what little comb they have is turning bright red. It's early but so who knows. I have kept the nest boxes closed off per the advice that you don't want them using it as a bedroom bathroom. Does anyone know when I should set up the nesting boxes? Thanks!

Congratulations!! I'm new and excited about eggs. I've been reading up on when to switch them to layer feed (read not before 18 Wks) and when to set up their nesting boxes. It seems the general consensus is to begin when you get your first egg?? I currently have the nesting boxes blocked off as...

I'm so jealous of you and your gorgeous Plymouth. Animals and I have always connected so I assumed at least 2 of my hens would be lap chicks. I got my flock when they were 4 days old and made a point to hold each everyday. As they grew they became less tolerant of me picking them up (even when...

These are my girls at two weeks old From the top left; Heady , a Easter Egger bantam who looks like an owl, Fiona, Easter Egger bantam who looks like a crow, Sissy, a Red Star, Queenie, a speckled Sussex My girls are 14 weeks now. The owl turned into a pigeon, the crow is still a crow...

I checked my order at My Pet Chicken and it doesn't say that she's a bantam and they don't even sell Sussx bantams?? It's not a huge deal although I was planning on having 2 small egg layers and 2 large. I may end up with 3 small or she could hit a growth spurt??? Either way she's really pretty.

This trick CHANGED MY LIFE. I do supervised free ranging and need my chicks to coop up on command when I need them to. I was completely over doing the "chicken chase" . Several people told me to use dried meal worms. They go crazy for it and will come running when you shake the jar. Too...

The Sussex is on the left and the star on the right. The bantams are in the background.

At 10 weeks, my Speckled Sussex, which is classified as a large breed, is only a bit larger than my Bantams. She still has a lot of fluff and is just beginning to get tail feathers. My Red Star which is a medium breed is twice her size. Do I have a tiny Sussex, a giant Star or could the Sussex...

Thank you so much for asking this question and sharing the picture! I just found these same nubs on my sweetest girl who also happens to be a giant. I was really freaked out because she is a 9 week old red sex linked but hey-accidents happen. This is my first go at raising chicks too. What a...