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I found a dog attacking my roo this morning. My roo looked dead but stumbled up to his feet when the dog left. He is having trouble holding his head up but can lift it for small amounts of time. I don't see any puncture wounds, just a bit bloody from where the feathers were ripped out. I...

I am writing an evaluation paper in college on how to pick the best laying hen. (I just can't bring myself to evaluate a "normal" topic such as cars or cell phones.) Can anyone tell me the signs of a malnourished hen?

We have two goats and are thinking of getting a couple sheep to raise with them? Does anyone do this? Advantages, disadvantages?

This past year we got our first chickens and our first goats. We had our goats bred in November. Only one of the girls took and we had our first kid yesterday. She was so cute and we fell instantly in love. The bad news is that today our shepherd, who had never bothered the goats before, got...

We have had 8 of our eggs hatch and 5 more piping. One of the chicks that hatched still has a bunch of "yolk" in the shell and a cord hanging from it's bottom. He/she seems very weak. Is there anything we can do for him?

Doesn't it just figure...I go for days without plans and then everything happens on the same day. We had to be out of town today which just happened to be day 20 of incubation. When we got home this evening, we had one egg halfway opened with a dead chicken in it. We didn't see what happened...

My son saw this chicken on vacation. A price list for cigarettes was actually leaning on the chicken but I think the feed sack looks better.

We have a SF that we received as our "Rare Chick" about 9 months ago. He has been an outcast in our flock since day one. Sometimes he would hang out with the meaties and sometimes he would hang out with the rest of our babies. He has never grown tail feathers as they kept getting pecked off...

Hello all. I have 5 hens that are laying now. I also have several pullets that I don't believe are old enough to be laying yet. A few times during this past week, we had 6 eggs in the coop when I go home from work. Is it possible for chickens to lay more than one egg a day? Or, do you think...

I am just too impatient to wait for eggs or crowing. Can anyone help sex some of my chicks? I have 5 EE's (2 shown here), 3 BR's (only one pic), 4 Siver Spangled Hamburgs (too flighty to get pics), 1 Speckled Sussex Roo not pictured and 1 Roo of some breed (He has five toes). Anyone? Please...

Can anyone tell me why chickens eat chicken feathers? Should I be concerned about this?

We have our second batch of meat birds. While waiting for the new run to be built, we penned the meaties with the layers. The meaties are too stupid to find the water dishes during the hot days and just lay there and pant. They let the little layers peck at their bottoms. One day after work...

My pullets have started to get fluffy bottoms. About half of them have varying degrees of fluffiness while some of them have no noticeable changes. Is this a sign that they might be getting ready to lay eggs? They are 4 months old.

Got our first chickens in April. We were expecting some loss and got that with one "sick" bird and one attacked by something early on. Our chicks had free run on our property. TRAGEDY. We have lost 8 chickens in the past week. 7 just disappeared and the 8th one's body was found just outside...

We started raising chicks about 3 months ago. I am leaning so much from this forum. I saw an article on foods that are "treats" for chickens and decided to try hand feeding them tonight. We usually only have one that will come close to us. She is so friendly that she will sit in my DH's lap...

Does anyone use fake eggs to help train their hens where to lay? I have read that some use golf balls. Any success with that? Also, where can I get fake eggs?

We have several Red Star hens that are about 4 months old. We just installed our nesting boxes in their coop. How old will they be when they start laying? Do all hen breeds start laying at about the same age? Our chicks free range during the day and return to their coop just before sunset...

My DH built the 4x8 coop while we had the babies in our basement. They outgrew their living arrangements before the coop was finished. DH then stopped building the coop and quickly built their 8 x 8 run. They lived in that in a large box until coop was finished. The run usually sits in front...

I would love to have contact with others in my area. Thanks.