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That might be it. Thank you!

Thank you for all the great suggestions!

My Jersey Giant hen is missing feathers from her chest. They have been missing for a while and the skin looks pretty smooth. Obviously she is surviving the weather but does anyone know why this happens. She is not picked on - quite the contrary she is the defender of the flock.

I have a couple of chickens that have poopy feathers near their vent. Do I need to clean? If so how do I clean? Thank you.

Thanks for your responses!

I have a Polished Crested Bantam that will be a year old in a couple months and still we have had not a single egg. She is skittish as the other hens (all non-bantam, non-crested) sometimes don't let her join in on eating treats that I bring out. Personality-wise I would say she is timid. Do...

There is something you can spray on the chicken help the skin. I believe it is called Blue Kote....I got it at the feed store. It colors the skin purple to discourage further pecking and I think it might have had an anti-septic in it also.

I'm having a similar problem. My new hens are 5 months old. One of them is laying and produces good eggs. Then every couple of days I find soft shelled eggs under their roost, sometimes broken open. The shell is completely soft/pliable as if it didn't harden. What I thought was weird that...

I just noticed that there is a message board for egg laying. Sorry I misposted!

Soft meaning that they look normal except they aren't hard. And the "shell" is not thick. It's as if it popped out too soon....I'm pretty sure it's from one of the new ones but I never see them in the nesting boxes.

For about 3 weeks 1 to 2 eggs have been turning up on the coop floor that are soft. We have been 3 year-old chickens and introduced 4 new ones this year that are now about 5 months old. One of the new ones has been laying eggs. From reading it sounds as if these soft eggs are due to some kind...

I've heard that it's different when the Mom hen is there. We had a Mille Fleur rooster and he was the sweetest chicken we've had yet. We had to take him to the rooster rescue. I feel bad when we have to get rid of the roosters - but we live in a suburban area. We take them to a woman who has...

We have a bantam Polished Crested Rooster. He's about 11-12 weeks old and he's started crowing. We can't have roosters in our town so I need to take him to a rooster rescue place. The problem is he's so small. A couple of weeks ago he was savagedly pecked by the head hen. We found the hen a...

I will second elmo's post. They do lose feathers at about 7-11 weeks. They won't be bald and it's pretty subtle but there is feather loss. We're going through it right now.

I'm a new chicken person too. The hens will get wattles but they come later. So when you have a chicken at 5-8 weeks with bright red wattles and a comb you know it's a roo.

We have been introducing 5 new chicks (10 weeks old) to our existing flock of 4 chickens (2 RIR and 2 Ameraucanas). The top RIR has been getting pretty mean and the chicks are terrified of her. Tonight the top RIR pecked the smallest chick (it's a bantam and a rooster) to the point that the...

We've had a couple of these weird eggs also. And they are laid in unusual places: randomly on the ground outside, on the floor of the coop. It's one of our two RIR's, who have both been excellent layers so far. We've been trying to introduce 10 week old chicks into the flock and we had...

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The Buff Orpington is 6 weeks old and may be plucking the feathers off the back of a Golden Laced Polish. The gray Polish is 6 weeks and the (Black) Jersey Giant is 4 weeks. Is it too early to tell?

We have four 6 week old chicks and one 4 week old. Our Bantam Polish, who is 6 weeks, is being picked on. I believe the aggressor is a Buff Orpington (same age). The back feathers are all but gone. I had separated the Polish from the Orpington while they were in the broder but now that they...