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One of my girls is loosing blood. She looks like she is trying to pass something. Her comb is flopped over. Is she egg bound? Can she be saved? She doesn't look any different any other way.

We adopted a six month old border collie/poodle last fall from the SPCA. He is wonderful. He comes when he is called in the house and he does all his basic training. I did take him to obedience classes. But he is over the top fixated on the chickens. I tried to introduce them slowly when we...

I have a one year old red sex lined hen. A couple of days ago I noticed she was quite wobbley. I put her in a separte area from the others and gave her food and water etc. She is only laying down in one spot, she can't get up. Her toes are curled under, she actually lays more on one side...

Our birds are about 1 1/2 years old. This will be their first molt. Most of them have spots where a few feathers have been lost. But one girl has quite a spot on her chest that is bare and the other birds seem to be coming up to her and pulling out and eating her feathers. Just her. Why are...

My hen - almost a year old - is making funny noises this morning. It is constant, and almost sounds like wheezy or raspy breath. She makes them both on the inhale and exhale. And the noise is constant. Any ideas? Should I be concerned?

We have a well insulated coop. I have not been using a heat lamp as the lowest it has gotten in the coop is about -4C. This week has been very cold and the coop has been down to -9C. I have been leaving the main door closed but leaving the pop door open so they can get to the run if they want...

Our coop is insulated and was staying quite warm until this week. It has been really cold here and the water is freezing in the container. What kind of ideas have you smart people come up with to solve this problem? Friends of ours take their water in every night. I doubt the girls drink...

Are they ever completely done? We still have a few things to finish up, but we are ready for the long winter ahead. The girls are happy and laying every day! I think it is the daily dose of cuddles and treat that they get Here are our 9 new girls! This is where the coop will be - the day...

I was just out to the run and the girls were going crazy over something. I couldn't tell what it was. I went in to the run to start shooing them into the coop for the night when one of the girls layed a yolk right in front of me - no shell. The others went crazy and they all dived in and...

They never did this before. Why now and for what reason. They have been handled a lot, though would normally still run the other direction from us unless we had food. But since they started laying when we go near them (when they are running free) or when we pat them in the run, they crouch...

We have a coop with an attached run. But we also use a portable tractor to allow the girls access to fresh grass etc. without the scare of wandering dogs. But I'm not sure when to put the girls into the tractor. They have just begun to lay in the past week or so. Should I wait until about...

We have a coop, a run, and a tractor so that they can eat grass and bugs When I don't have my kids to go in the tractor to help me I have a hard time getting them out of there as it's only 3 ft high or so. I'm thinking of some kind of back wall that I can pull out to kind of encourage them...

My girls were born May 1. So sometime early September I'm guessing they will begin laying. Their boxes have been blocked off at this point so they won't sleep in there. How do I know when to get their boxes ready?

I have scoured this board and others online looking for an idea for hanging waterers and feeders. I really liked the ideas found here http://toolmakingart.com/2008/06/10/chicken-feeders/ and here http://www.instructables.com/id/Cheap-E … -Shop-Fee/ Not having exactly the materials called for...

I have scoured this board and others online looking for an idea for hanging waterers and feeders. I really liked the ideas found here http://toolmakingart.com/2008/06/10/chicken-feeders/ and here http://www.instructables.com/id/Cheap-Effective-Easy-One-Stop-Chicken-Shop-Fee/ Not having...

We are to the point of putting hardware cloth over our windows. How did you do yours? Our windows are the plastic casing type.

Is there anything that you use as an alternative or do differently?

I'm trying to find somethingn like this http://www.teksupply.com/farm/supplies/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10053&storeId=10001&productId=17665&langId=-1&division=TekSupply&pageId=ItemDetail&isDoc=N but not having any luck. One supply store here said they have a nipple that is used for pigs. I...

I'm trying to find somethingn like this http://www.teksupply.com/farm/supplies/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10053&storeId=10001&productId=17665&langId=-1&division=TekSupply&pageId=ItemDetail&isDoc=N but not having any luck. One supply store here said they have a nipple that is used for pigs. I...

I finished lime washing the coop tonight. After about an hour it is still quite damp. There is little breeze tonight to dry it and we have no fan. I'd love to get the poor girls out of their box and into the coop tonight. Will the wet lime hurt them? I can't find anything on line that...