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I have 4 girls, 2 are about 4.5ish yrs old and one had stopped laying completely as she 'went rooster' a couple of years ago, the other was seemingly slowing down naturally over time. I introduced 2 POL pullets to the flock a few months ago, provoking some strange 'pseudo laying' behaviour from...

Hey BYC! I have an odd question, haha. So I have 2 adult hens, a light Sussex (Solar) and a white Orpington (Snow), who are both about 3.5/4-ish yrs old and have been a duo for the last couple of years, when a relationship breakup lead to having to split the flock. They both adjusted fine and...

Hi! As I'm sure we all know, keeping chickens means ending up with LOTS of feathers everywhere! Whether it's just normal shedding or someone's moulting, you can usually always spot where one of your birds' favourite dustbathing spot is, or whether they've gone up this side of the yard or that...

Hi all, I'm just wondering - Is it normal for the top hen to just stop laying? I'm a little unsure what she's doing, but my Light Sussex (2yrs old) has been the Boss for over a year, and for the majority of that time (and I guess, since she first started) she was a very good layer, laying most...

Hi all! I want to show off some pics of our lovely Orpington family, and chuck in a happy story about one of our boys who was quite sick as a young lad. His whole saga started quite some time ago, when that little runt of a White Orpington cockerel was about 3 months old... It was quite the...

Hey all! One of our white Orpingtons started laying a couple of months ago, she's now about 7-8months old. She's recently started displaying some kinda mean and completely out of character behaviours. Since I spotted a huge carpet python in the garden nearly a fortnight ago, everyone has been...

Hey all! I wanna share a couple of photos of our 2 Sussex pullets, Solar and Gray. Solar is so boyish, she had us so confused we got her DNA tested just to make sure, hahaha. We got 3 Sussex chicks at day old, 2 platinum/lavender and one light. One turned out to be a roo, so he's since been...

Hi guys, So, a few nights ago I was wandering around my yard just after dusk, bent down to pick up a really lovely feather one of our girls dropped there, and found myself looking at the big, fat body of a huge carpet python! I traced my torch along it and it was definitely over 2m long, and...

Hey guys! So our two oldest Orpington pullets have both started laying, whoohoo! The first started at 18 weeks on the dot, and has given us perfect, well formed, amazing eggs almost every day since. Go Chai! She had one double yolker in the first fortnight, but other than that, always perfect...

So, Chai the buff/white Orpington turned 18 weeks and has started laying! She had a couple of weeks of obvious behavioural changes, then one afternoon she was see seeming extremely agitated, pacing and clucking, up and down and up down and up and down the ladder to the sleep space/nesting box...

This is my 3.5 month old Orpigton cockerel. He's generally incredibly spry, energetic, friendly, curious - All that awesome chicken stuff. Tonight my girlfriend and I checked on the coop to see him sitting on a roost with his head down below his body, bent under him. Thinking that didn't look...

I'm still quite new to chicken keeping, and this is the first one I've lost so I'm a bit rattled. I know chicks are susceptible to a range of things, and a lot of symptoms overlap which makes it so hard to know what it is unless you go to a vet... But I thought I'd try to get some opinions...

My 4-5 week old Orpingtons tend to spar a bit but it's never been anything serious, and no one has gotten hurt so far... Until today. I don't know when exactly this happened, but we were out in the backyard when I picked up the littlest one, and noticed she/he was missing part of one nostril and...

Hi all, I'm Ticket and I'm from QLD, Aus =) My partner and I are both heavily into permaculture, sustainability, environmentalism, and gardening. Me, an animal lover, activist, artist and bartender (haha, we all make a living, but I do love it!), and her a green-powered, eco-minded activist and...

Hi! I've just started keeping chickens, and as such I've been lurking on the forums here for the last few weeks, but now I want some advice and I'm hoping someone can help me out. I've looked at a bunch of other threads for sexing Orpington chicks, but I figured a new one with pics of my little...