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One of my hens had a crop impaction. I isolated her and we got it cleared out and this morning I put her back into the run with the other chickens. She isn't eating as much as usual today. Is this normal after going through a crop impaction?

I have four red sexlink girls. They're about six months old and have been together since hatching. I've had two of the bigger girls that fuss at each other about dominance (posturing and chest bumping) from time to time, but the smaller two have been left alone. Well, the one who wants to be...

Not quite sure what happened, but there was a thin shelled egg (some of my girls just started laying a little over a week ago) that was eaten on the floor of the run. There was a mess and broken shell, but only on the floor. For them to have gotten it out of the nesting box (not our first thin...

My big girl was fine this evening. She was running around with her coop mates, eating and having a good chicken time free ranging. Then about an hour ago she suddenly became lethargic and acting off. I checked and she doesn't feel like she has an egg stuck. Her comb/wattles are nice and red...

Good morning. I have a small flock and I'm fairly new to chicken keeping. My girls are getting close to the time when they'll start laying (one is getting really 'squatty' around me). Yesterday, when my girls were out for their afternoon free ranging I saw one relax her feathers to poop...

Would quarantining still be necessary if I purchase more chickens from my original source? He breeds from a closed flock. Just trying to increase my chicken information.

I have four chickens and three nesting boxes. My girls aren't laying yet but have started taking an interest in the nesting boxes. They sleep in them. I've read people say to not let them sleep in the nesting box, but short of sleeping out there with them (no thanks), I can't keep them out of...

I've been reading other posts about chickens eating snakes with no issues. One of my girls ate a small snake (about 12-15" long and very thin) and she's been stretching her neck out and gaping (I guess that's the word) like something stuck in her throat every once in a while. None of the other...

My grandson loves my chickens. He thinks they're cool. His words. He 'helped' me to clean out the coop and tend to the run this this morning. He's feeding meal worms to the chickens in this picture.

Last weekend we were working on the run and had to take a break for my husband to run into town. Since that always takes a while (we're kinda way out of town), I decided to grab some lunch. I had tortilla chips with my lunch. Which of course I ate by the run. Who wouldn't? I dropped a...

My husband is a fisherman and I decided to try a bit of the fish we were having for dinner tonight and see if the girls would like it. My little dinosaurs with wings loved it! We're looking for free/inexpensive protein sources for the dears. They've started going after bugs (we have love...

When we fenced the run we didn't have quite enough of the small hole wire to complete the job. We had to do a small section in some field fence we had. We put the small side down figuring it was small enough to keep the little dears inside. I kept finding girls on the outside of the fence...

My four girls (ISA browns) are about 11-12 weeks old now. I've had two of them fly up on things. One of the lid of the nesting box. I don't know who was more surprised, her (from the look on her face) or me. Then yesterday they saw my husband and I come home and got excited knowing it was...

I give my girls their fermented feed (along with some 3-way scratch, some nuts, oatmeal and kale every morning and they're on it like crazy. I was watching them the other day and all of them were going to town on a small weed just outside of their run. Fortunately I have this weed all of the...

My husband and I live outside of Plant City, FL on a little over 4 acres. We moved here to get out of the city and to become more self-sufficient. Chickens are part of that. I have four ISA Brown girls. They're the latest addition to our little homestead. I've been reading this website...

Hi. I'm new to this website and to chicken wrangling. I live in Central Florida. We've had a cold spell that's lasted for a couple of weeks (that's long for Florida winters). Yesterday I was taking the waterer out of the run to clean and refill it. I inadvertently spilled some water and...