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Hey all! I'm looking to add some girls to my small flock. I currently have a Black Copper Maran hen, an Easter Egger pullet, BCM/Andalusian pullet, a black Silkie pullet, and a Cornish pullet. I'm very open to breeds but prefer colorful egg layers. I'm located in Jefferson County and would like...

I have one rooster, and 25 hens. He crows NON STOP. I'm talking every 2-3 min his mouth is running. I'm sick of it and I'm ready to kill him at this point. My mother loves him though so I told her she needs to get a no-crow collar for him. Do they work? Is there anything else I can do to shut...

I replaced the floor in my coop a couple of months ago, added poop boards and put sand in the coop as well for bedding. It.Smells.HORRIBLE. I clean it daily, and it still stinks. I know chickens are going to stink but is there anything I can add to it to help cut the smell a little? The poop...

Hey all. I've noticed the last two days some foamy yellow poops and caught a fresh pile today and definitely had worms . I currently have Safeguard for goats. What is the dosage I would use per bird, and for how long? All birds are 18 weeks or older. I also have 7 ducks. I imagine they should be...

My white maran pullet has been listless for 3 days now. She has a very small, firm lump in her crop. There is no smell. I have syringe fed her warm water, and have gotten it to soften. I did give some vegetable oil yesterday as well. She will take the fluids I give but as soon as she puts her...

Ordered her from Meyer Hatchery. I'm not sure if she was one of the "rare breeds" or the "rainbow pullet pack". She's always had funny feathers. Last 2 pics are when she had just fully feathered, first pic is from 3 weeks ago and I'll try to get another today

Hey all. Last week my BCM pullet came down with gasping for air and some rales (rattly breathing). I had added 3 new birds to my flock after a 2 week quarantine. I started treating her with .5ml Tylan50 IM and she improved quickly. It now seems to be spreading through my entire flock so I have...

I've been having nothing but troubles with my chickens since a fox got 9 of them in the spring. I got some replacements which had lice, respiratory infection, worms etc. They were dewormed, treated for lice, and given a round of antibiotics. Well, most of them are much older than the woman that...

I know obviously they are edible..but are they worth it? I've got a few older hens that are really just eating and taking up space. They've stopped laying. All were de-wormed and treated for a mild upper respiratory infection earlier this summer (Wazine and Oxytetracycline in their water at...

It all started a few weeks ago when a fox got into my coop and killed 9 of my hens. That left me with 4. I then purchased some laying hens from a local woman only to discover when I got them home that they had favus, one has a respiratory infection, lice, scaly leg mites, worms, and a pullet...

Hey all, I acquired this barred rock (the woman who had this one and a billion other birds said it was an Imperial something or other..a bigger version of a barred rock?) about 3 days ago. I've been helping it along, keeping it separate from my big girls and it came to work with me today. From...

I got 11 replacement hens from a local woman yesterday. 7 of them immediately went back due to lice (bald bottoms, one was extremely red and swollen..maybe asceites?) 2 had favus, 3 (including the 2 with favus) has scaly leg mites, and one was sneezing, gurgling when she was breathing. I'm...

I just purchased 9 replacement hens. I've only had chickens a couple of years and have never dealt with anything like this. The previous owner said that a couple of them were broody (they had bare bottoms) and me with no broody experience went along with it. I should have checked them there...

A friend of mine gave me 4 hens (will be 1 year old this spring) the two white ones are identical and the other two differ slightly but she said she bought them as the same breed. I think the white ones are Delawares? Not sure about the other though. I did get a lovely pink egg from one of them...

I currently have 11 hens. 3 of them will be 2 years old in the spring and all just went through their first molt (one has started to lay again already!) The remaining 8 are 5 Red Stars (I believe) 2 Buff Orpingtons and one EE. A couple of my Red Stars, one of my BO's and my EE were all laying...

This is the second one of these I've found in the yard. Last night the girls were being pains about going on and I almost stepped on this one. It was still very warm when I picked it up. The lighter part is very rough feeling while the rest feels normal. The last picture is of the other side of...

This started a couple of weeks ago. She seems to have these "sneezing" fits a few time a day. She'll be 2 years old in the spring, free range during the day and in the coop at night with my other Pekin hen that is the same age, and 11 hens/pullets. She has no discharge, her eyes are clear and...

I've currently got 2 Pekin hens in with 11 hens/pullets. They have a 5 gallon water trough in the attached run that they drink out of. I have raised or off the ground so they can only get their heads in, but they still manage to make it a disgusting mess overnight! The 2 ducks are out from...

Hey all. We've got 11 hens and 2 female Pekin ducks. Our coop is 8x8 with an attached 8x8 run that has a roof over it. The ducks are out all day, and the girls get let out when I get home from work (I kept telling them to quit wandering!). The coop has linoleum over OSB on the floor, bedded with...

My husband and I got 3 "Bantams" from TSC this year. Well, our "Bantams" turned out to be just as big as our year old EE at 5 months! We wound up with 2 cockerels and a pullet. I came home from work yesterday to find our biggest cockerel (who is bigger than my full grown hens already) with the...