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i noticed that my girl has a bloody spot on her back when i checked on them this morning so i brought her in to check it out. she has been molting, so the missing feathers didn't stick out as something to be alarmed about in the past. i've got a washcloth on the area- warm, wet with a little...

I noticed that my 10 month old EE hen is falling asleep standing up a lot today. Her crop isn't empty, and she's not acting sick in any other way. I don't know if it's relevant, but I have had a few strange eggs this week, one half size and 2 extremely pointy. I brought her in for...

It seemed to me that this group of fellow chickeners would understand the freedom that comes through having food available in your own yard. Samaritan's Purse is an organization that helps impoverished and disaster stricken people all over the world. They sent out a Christmas catalogue...

One of my hens is in the other hens business, have you ever seen this before? She follows the other girls up into the nesting box and watches their backside for the egg to coming out. I don't think the other girls like it too much. The layer was making a funny grumbly sound and fluffing out...

I am completely new to chickens, all of my Easter Egger girls started laying in the past week or two. But today I noticed that Spot was hanging out in the nesting box almost the whole day and having no luck with laying her egg (I believe this is her 3rd egg). I decided to take a look at her...

Hi! This forum has been a great resource to me from before I got chickens and I thought I would finally join. Last year I started gathering souls from my community who wanted to change the ordinance banning poultry in our small town in central Illinois. After much research, and a long paper...