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Hello all, My 4.5 year old hen - an 'Easter Egger' but really just a barnyard mix ;) is displaying 3 symptoms -She seems to have lost her voice. She's not wheezing, just makes squeaky sounds when she tries to cluck - like laryngitis. She is laying regularly but her eggs have significant calcium...

5 of my 10 girls are laying regularly. I found this unusual egg in the coop and don't know who laid it. Very light tint with dark speckles. The shell was quite thin but the size was large on par with my Red Star who has producing lovely big brown eggs (sometimes with specks) for months. The late...

I'm waiting for our first eggs - I got 4 'big girls' who are 21 weeks right now - a Speckled Sussex, a Rhode Island Red, a Welsummer and an Austrolorp. The RIR and Welsummer have bright red combs, but no laying behavior yet. I also got 6 'little girls' who are 17 weeks (Barred Rock, Easter...

I'm working on my design for my first coop and run and I'd really like to bury wire cloth under the run to prevent foxes from get in from below. I had buried fencing into a trench around the perimeter when I laid out my vegetable garden and it was truly agony. CT soil is glacial and very rocky...

I'm just entering the world of chicken keeping. But I Already completely understand what chicken fever is and I even think I get the concept of chicken math. I'm about to enter a 3 generational chicken keeping lifestyle. I live on a family 'compound' and my mom and I have wanted to keep...