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Love this young hen! Got her from some friends who thought initially that she is a Blue Andalusian. But now they think she might be a blue Americauna. She has white ear lobes but lays a pale blue egg. Beautiful hen - everyday layer. Any idea what breed she might be?

Winter will be here in MN very soon and our Australorps are molting in a big way. I have a couple of questions. 1. Do we need to worry about keeping them warmer during the chilly nights (which will very soon turn into very cold nights?) 2. I've read that adding some cat or dog food to their...

So one of our ladies retired about six months ago. The bag of layer crumble that we've always fed our chickens days that it is to be fed from about 3 weeks before laying starts (like anyone knows exactly when that is) until the hen stops producing. Well, our hen has stopped producing, should we...

If you have chicks and live in the Twin Cities Area (MN), this note is for you! I have 2/3 of a 40-pound bag of starter/grower that I would love to give away to anyone who can use it. Our girls are at point of lay and are already on layer crumble. Anyone want it? It's free to the first taker...

This morning one of our hens laid an egg that was very sticky, with what appears to be egg yolk and other matter on the outside of the egg. The egg was not broken at all, the shell was intact, but it was a bit smaller than what we normally get from any of them (we have 3 laying at the moment)...

We have 3 hens and will soon be adding a couple of new girls to our household flock. But I have an important question. We will be getting these new chicks from a friend who ordered 5 chicks from a hatchery to supplement his small backyard flock. They are still young at about 6 weeks old and all...

Curious question - why would a hen's eggs become increasingly lighter in color?

do you mean DRY cat food?? Our 2 older hens (2 years old) have been molting - one has finally emerged gorgeously from her molt with beautiful new feathers. The other one, whose molt started a little later, is still in the throes of her molt. I have read lots of times here that a little cat food...

We have 2 RSL and 2 BO hens - all layers of brown eggs. When the BO pullets first started laying, their eggs were lighter in color, almost a pinkinsh color. They still are slightly different than the standard brown eggs laid by our RSL. But the for the past 3 days, one of our BO pullets has...

After being gone for a couple of hours last evening, we got home to discover that one of our 4 hens, Wilma, was suddenly failing. She hadn't made it up the ladder to the henhouse for the night with the others and when we picked her up, her comb was pale and she was incredibly weak - just limp...

I need a hen that will lay some white eggs (the bigger, the better!) and which are heavy enough to do well in a MN winter. I don't want leghorns, but I am wondering if any one has suggestions. (we currently have 2 RSL and 2 BO)

and am in love with it! Has anyone seen plans for one like this?

Not my chickens - squirrels! We have found 3 dead squirrels in 3 days next to or on our compost pile. We have always had a lot of squirrels - and we have always had the same old compost pile. This is our first fall with chickens (4 of them) and the only thing which is different this year is that...

I have reason to believe that mine have killed and eaten a mouse, but a rat? A friend saw a rat in his run, and the bait station he purchased included a warning that said the poison is toxic to birds and fish too, and that the poison would be toxic also to animals which eat a poisoned rat...

I don't think this is an emergency, but I'm baffled. When we went to tidy the henhouse before dark (two of our hens don't roost, they just sleep together on a shelf, so we de-poop the shelf before dark so they have a clean place to sleep. Not that it stays that way) we saw blood sort of...

We have a small, suburban backyard coop and 4 hens. Our coop is elevated 3 feet off the ground and sits on an open run. There are two large screen windows in the coop which we covered with cardboard temporarily because we had a week of rain. There is also a hole in the floor of the henhouse...

Our BO pullet just started laying this week. She gave us 5 perfect eggs in 6 days. Then today we got this bumpy one. What are the bumps? Calcium deposits?

Last night we put our 2 BO pullets (15 wks old) into the henhouse with the 2 RSL hens (14 mo. old) for the first time. A couple of weeks ago we had built a large addition to our run and have been letting them hang out together during the day (and while they remained sort of segregated, it was...

This is Doris. She was sold (out of the feed store bin) as a black wyandotte... and black she is not. She is about 6 weeks old at time of photos. (her white speckles are vertical down the middle of the feather, not cross-wise like her her barred-rock flockmate) Any guesses as to what breed...

Not sure this is really an emergency, but I noticed a couple of hours ago that my 13-week old BO is favoring one of her feet. She's eating and drinking normally - enthusiastically, actually. But she spends much time lying down (lying down to eat, too), and though her limp is only slight, when...