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It is laughable - Red(my 4yo RIR) has been limping - when I first checked about 2 mos ago no obvious injury or problem - well... I checked about 10 days ago - limping has persisted - and found the dreaded black scab - it is on one of her toes - not on the fleshy pad of her foot - so I soaked...

I am guessing this is just a 'chicken story' - I didn.t feel well this AM - let the flock out (1 roo and his 7 girls) at about 8 and went back in the house after scattering scratch and topping off water - just got up from an afternoon nap and decided to take out a handful of mealworms for treat...

hi! all - had 'accidental' sneaky broody which would ordinarily be OK but then only one hatch from 7 eggs on the 6/3(couldn't there have been 2?) - right now I have hen and chick segregated in a refrigerator box inside coop with food, water, indirect fan(is 85-90 here in SC), intermittant light...

how much more fun it has been to watch new hatchlings developing outside in the coop! I have a really secure coop and run area for a "Mom" and her 9 mixed chicks - really wasn't expecting the chicks since three other broods never hatched(and believe me I gave them plenty of time)(proven wrong...

I have read the info on coop maintenance/floor material(s)here and do not find an answer - recently came across mention elsewhere that cedar shavings are toxic to chickens...my flock seems to be fine with its use and it keeps down odors and bugs...but should I switch to something else? Do not...

My rooster - Louie(was supposed to be 'Lois') - was sitting on an egg this AM! He was clucking a lot to the hen whose egg it was...she was clucking back and observing from the coop door...was very amusing! I have seen him make nests for the ladies in the past...a real gentleman!

I have a friend with a pittie female and she is a serious couch potatoe...this is her second of this breed(the first was a male) and she would like to know if this is typical...they have both loved to burrow behind her on the couch and veg out for hours while she is watching TV. Obviously she...

If I got a little yellow Easter chick - now a little white pullet out of brooder - is it likely a leghorn? I actually would like to have someone lay white eggs...

I had the pleasure this morning of watching my rooster scratch out a nice hollow in the shred in a dark corner of the coop while "his" hen watched(I was cleaning so I was there a while) - then he "talked" very seriously and gently to her and ,believe me , they were beak to beak and she was...

Do ALL roosters have spurs? or do some breeds not?

One of my co-workers families owns a chicken "factory" - when they are 6 wks old chicks are rounded up for slaughter but she says anywhere from 10-50 escape in the yard and just have to forage around on their own - most get killed by neighborhood dogs - she says it is very sad; some survive and...

I have put a roo who started picking on one of the hens earlier this week in time-out in a dog crate...he has food and water and can sit and stand...any recommendations how long to confine him? This is new behavior; he is about 8 month old ; some mixed breed and up until now has been very...

Just had to adjust my profile to reflect the death this AM of my 21yr old cat 'Fu'...he died peacefully after sleeping in the sun on the deck Sunday and being briefly disoriented/not eating on Monday - discovered comatose early today and slipping away midmorning; kitties do 'slip' away. He has...

Would The Chix Like Some Alfalfa - A Flake Now And Then? - Or Perhaps Oat Straw Would Be Better; The Kind With Oat Heads Still In It?

:)One egg, two egg...first egg...for a NEW EGG! I even know who laid it - she got special treat - she worked very hard!(Fine voice!)(first yesterday and another today) Also...ha!ha!...have been watching this 'funny lookin' hen - and today 'she' is CROWING(obviously over girlfriend's eggs!)...

Just look at all the posts from just 7:18 PM! Phenomenal! - is anyone else impressed? Are we chicken lovin' Forum fools or what?(my friends /family think I'm a little 'off). SO chillin' with ALL OF U!

WAITING FOR FIRST EGG IS TRULY THE BEST EXERCISE IN PATIENCE I HAVE EVER HAD! but I FIND THAT I CAN OCCUPY MY MIND WITH THOUGHTS OF CHICKEN COOP AND RUN EXPANSION! TALK ABOUT ADDICTIVE!

Newbie still stumbling around the site and the coop - but lovin' it all. What a great, informative , supportive website1 loving clucks to all!