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That would have been my first thought if her vent would not have been swollen, bright red, and bloody. And it may very well could have been the heat but they get frozen fruit treats three times a day in this heat.

I just had the same thing happen. One of my hens, the smallest of the bunch, was the first to lay yesterday. It was a small egg, very clean, no blood, and a very thick shell. The girls are still on starter grower feed that is fermented. This evening, I walked out to find her dead, with a very...

I just read that vanilla car fesheners are hated by flies and won't hurt the chickens. I shall try this and will continue to research.

When I say flies, I mean I walked out to check on them and though the feed bucket was empty because it was black. When I walked into the coop I found it was just solid flies and hundreds of them. It is even driving my dogs, wife and kid nuts because the flies are crazy if I feed them. They come...

I am having a serious problem with the flies this year. The only time it is a problem is when I feed the fermented feed. And I am talking hundreds of flies (due to all the recent rains). I have used DE and fly traps to no avail. Anyone else have this problem with the fermented feed attracting...

I am having a serious problem with flies being attracted to the fermented feed. I walked out yesterday and the entire top of the feed was black with flies. I removed the feed, washed out the bowl and put up fly traps. Since removing the food, the flies left for the most part, but I just fed the...

Thank you! I have already learned a lot off this site. My wife was very skeptical of chickens, but now she has named them all.

I am very sure. Bought them at one day old 10 weeks ago. I am going to take some other advice off of here and get a fake egg or two and catch which ones it is.

I didn't even think about the fake eggs but will be getting some. Knowing my luck, it is the two roosters that I am trying to get rid of since I can't have roosters in the city.

Everything I have read on here says they are two young, but everyday in the last week that I have been checking the inside of their coop, I have noticed two nesting boxes with perfect little nests made. I level off the shavings, but the next evening, the little nests are back. Are they just...

Everything I have read the girls are too young to lay, but everyday the last week when checking the inside of the coop I notice two nesting boxes have a perfect nest made. I level it out, just to make sure that I am not crazy, but everyday, the perfect little nests are back. Are they just...