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Hello there, My sweetest, most submissive and smallest hen is also the bottom of the pecking order (surprise!). She's 4 and has been with the same flock of 5 her whole life. 2 years ago we added 3 more to the family. Every year she molts first in late summer and gets pecked at to the point of...

Hi there, For about a month or so now one of my chickens has been laying these really oddly shaped eggs. I wonder if they are slab-side eggs? They are flat on one side (sorry for all the photos but tying to really show the odd shapes!) and where you can see the lighter spot has been (not this...

Hi All, Our chicks are now 2 weeks old and thriving outside in the coop- it was really warm this week with two days in the 80s but no colder than the higher 50s at night. I have seen the chicks nowhere near the MHP- I think they sleep in a corner huddled together at night. Could it be possible...

Hi there, I've been researching the Mama Heating Pad and convinced myself that was the way I wanted to go this time around with raising my chicks. I built it today...and I think it's working the way it should. I'll be getting my chicks in 2 days. The only thing is..I'm getting a little bit...

Hi there, My girls are molting and one of them much more dramatically than the others. She was ganged up on Friday and I came home to find her bloody and pecked over something awful especially where her new feathers are coming in. I removed her immediately, and she's been in a large dog crate...

hello all, My girls are going through their first molt- it is mine too since they are my first chickens so I am quite the newbie! I have 2 auracanas (okay that is what I was told they were but but after reading up I am guessing they are EEs or some kind of mix). The auracanas are really the...

My chickens have a nice big run, but it would be really nice to get them in other places on our property to access fresh grass and bugs. I realize this run is in no way predator proof so I would only feel comfortable using it while I was home...but has anyone tried something like this? Thanks...

hello all! It's that time of year....our local grain store has chicks. They are coming in today! I have been wrestling with the idea of adding two more to our flock of 6 (who are newly one years old). I realize it would take a while to integrate them and had plans for a separate coop with a...

Our favorite girl has ben hanging in the nesting box a lot today- she wasn't sitting, just standing in there just now. Seems lethargic and wouldn't eat anything I offered her. When she finally got out and moved around, I saw what looked like a small pile of egg white in the nesting box and saw...

Hello! Our girls are 24 weeks now and we are getting some eggs which is so exciting. There is one hen that I am a little worried could be a cockerel though- she/he's definitely the top of the pecking order, bossing everyone else around, has always been a few days ahead in terms of development...

Unfortunately one of my chicks got a hold of a longish (2 feet??) piece of thick string (thin rope) and swallowed a majority of it...I saw it with about 8 inches still hanging out of her mouth..I tried gently tugging at it to see if I could get it out, or at least a little, but realized quickly...

Hello! I have been reading all sorts of posts here for the past few months as we prepared for our chicks and now that we have them I thought I would introduce myself. My name is Val and I have 6 chickens that are now 5 weeks old. We have 3 barred rocks, two arucanas and 1 rhode island red. I...