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We have 22 hens and 2 roosters. About half the hens have significant bare spots above their tails. A few have them underneath on their bellies as well. This has been going on a for several months now, with the numbers of affected hens growing gradually. I have been reading and worrying about...

Thanks so much. With that, I think I'm about to move her back with the others this morning and find some calcium. She shows no signs of anything else except maybe the listlessness. She does not cough or wheeze and looks (to me) as though she misses the rest of the flock, sitting alone in her...

Any suggestions why my chicken laid a rubbery egg this morning? She also is very subdued. Should I isolate her and/or do anything else to check her out?

I am a brand new chicken owner with 22 chicks and two grown Aracana egg-layers that a friend asked me to adopt at about the same time I got the chicks. Up until last night, the two hens were laying up a storm -- one to two eggs a day per chicken! Last night I noticed on of the Aracanas --...