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Hello! When you say do a treatment for lice what do you mean? I have DE all over the coop and in the sand box that they dust bath in. Is that enough or do I need to do more. Also, the hen with the worst butt (the one pictured) is also loosing a lot of feathers. Is that normal? To make...

It looks like it is now causing a drop in egg production. The chicken who has the most red butt is no longer laying eggs. It has been over a week. Any advice? Should I put anti-fungal or hydrocortisone cream? Please help!

Thank you for the information. We have been using pine shavings since I got them. It seems like that it would be very unlikely to cause a reaction but at this point I will try anything. Thanks again! Any other thoughts on what could be causing this?

Possibly. They are on non medicated layer feed. Could they all be allergic to the same thing? What kind of things are chickens allergic to?

No rooster! The hen that has it the worst is the alpha.

Hello! I am new to raising chickens and this is my first flock. I have 4 chickens and have recently been trying to fix a big problem of mine. A few months ago I realized that one of my chickens was losing feathers on its butt. At first I thought they were starting to drop their feathers but...

Hello, I am starting to get a little concerned with my chickens behavior. My black cuckoo maran and brown leghorn are no longer laying. They haven't been laying for almost 2 months! We had to put pin less peppers on the brown leghorn which stressed her out and then she stopped laying...

Please help! I am at a complete loss and feeling defeated. I have separated the bully chicken for almost two weeks. All the chickens free range together and are completely content. I bought the pinless peppers and put them on the bully chicken. She kept them on all night and morning so I...

Please help! I am at a complete loss and feeling defeated. I have separated the bully chicken for almost two weeks. All the chickens free range together and are completely content. I bought the pinless peppers and put them on the bully chicken. She kept them on all night and morning so I...

How great! I can't wait to see what her eggs look like! Thanks everyone!

Hello! I picked this chicken up from my local feed store and she was in the cage labeled Delaware. However, the employee informed me that it was highly likely that she wasn't a Delaware...she is most certainly not a Delaware but I can't figure out what she is. She has puffy little cheeks as...

Chickens are so silly and I am enjoying getting to learn about them and having the support of all of you. Every night I have been putting the chickens on the roost. I was starting to feel like maybe it was difficult to get to so I decided I will build a ramp this weekend. However, in the mean...

Or would it be better to place either the brown or black chickens in a cage inside the coop to prevent attacks? I want to do whatever will cause the least amount of stress to the chickens to avoid losing eggs.

I am okay with using the pinless peppers but I don't know which chicken to put it on! When free ranging the black chicken is top hep and the one doing the pecking, however hers seems normal. The Delaware now just allows the black chicken to get on top of her and then the pecking stops. While...

Hello, The chickens did well with free range again today so I decided to try putting them in the coop together. It was going well at first, but within 5 minutes, two out of the three chickens decided to attack the Delaware and even drew blood on the comb. I pulled her out as quickly as...

Thank you TwoCrows! At one point the whole flock decided to go into the coop and the Delaware was in a corner and they didn't have any problems. I am going to try free ranging again today and see how it goes. Thank you for the advice!

Good news! I let my chickens free range together and they did great! Surprisingly, the one I thought was the bully did not do any pecking but another did, funny how it works out. They had their little pecking problems, which was a lot to get used to but it did calm down. By the end of the two...

Hello again! Today I spent some time making coop adjustments. I put up a semi temporary block which doesn't allow the chickens to sleep on top of the nesting box. It is made of chicken wire as I didn't want to block the two windows above the nesting box. In addition, I added a roosting bar...

Thank you all! I gave them oyster shells, fingers crossed I get good eggs soon! Thank you for being so responsive to my messages, lots of new questions starting out!

Hello! I am excited but also worried because I just got my first "egg". I barely even noticed it. I have been noticing a spot made in the nesting box the past few days so I have been checking regularly. Today I noticed on odd pice and picked it up to find an extremely soft egg shell and...