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I bought new water cups to replace a couple that broke from old age. The float in theses new cups are at the top of the cup, instead of towards the bottom of the old cups. This is causing the cup to fill all the way to the top with water, so every time the chickens drink from the cup it...

My 5 18 weeks old pullets have been in the adult coop for three weeks now. In the last few days my #1 hen Austro had started to chase out the young birds when they come in the coop at night to roost. This is the only time she picks on them. The pullets look like they are a week or so from...

My 4 Blue Andalusian and one Austra White are out of the baby coop free ranging for the first time today. I was only going to get 3 birds, but the farmers said " buy 4 and I will give you the fifth one free." So because of chicken math, I am introducing 5 new pullets to my flock.

I have 4 Blue Andalusian birds in my grow out coop now. They are almost 11 weeks old. I have been reading up on this breed and I am concerned about them being flighty. At 15 weeks I will let them start to free range on our acre of land. I have a flock of 8 other chickens, a mix of breeds. I...

I bought some raw cat food and of course my cat wouldn't eat it. It is raw lamb. Is it ok to feed it to my chickens?

This hen has had nothing but health problems for months. She has been having seizures, which have stopped, but her neck is twisted badly. The other hens are now picking on her. The worst part is she can not roost anymore, seems she has no strength in her legs, so she is hanging out in the...

She throws her head back and then starts to shake her head. She is eating and drinking, but not roosting or laying. She is a 14 month old Australorp. Everyone else is fine.

This is a picture of my year old Australorp. She did not start laying until she was 9 months old. After that she been laying off and on. Nothing for probably a months or so. She eats and drink, but usually hangs out by herself. Her comb never really grew much. Her sister is doing great. Feeding...

My neighbor got two new birds today. She just put the new birds in with the existing birds. She had one of her older chickens, the low bird in the old picking order, fly at one of the new birds with her talons out. She said that it looked like the cock fighting she has seen on TV. She put that...

This posting is to give hope to everyone who has an older bird that has not starting laying yet. Drum roll! My 10 month old Astrolorp has finally laid an egg! :celebrate Guess she was waiting for the daffodils to bloom. Do not give up hope.

I got my first egg from my 18 week old Golden Sexlink yesterday. But nothing from my 44 week old Astrolorp yet. May she is waiting for spring, who knows.

Now that I have rehomed my non-laying Leghorns, I need to replace them. I was thinking of getting 2 Barred Rocks and 2 Rhode Island Reds. But then I started reading about Black Sexlinks, and can't decide between the 3 breeds. I want birds that will lay well, be ok with my existing birds and not...

I finally decided that I had to cull my non laying Leghorns. All I have been getting is a mess from a soft shelled egg from one of them in the nesting boxes. Since I didn't really want to do the culling myself, I placed an ad on Craigslist. The first person who called was looking for free birds...

I am located in Central Calif, so my coop and run are one and the same. I have a 6ft X10ft dog kennel that I put up roosting bars and put in nesting boxes. I have 8 birds. Four pullets and 4 older birds Two out of four of my pullets have started laying in the past month. Sometimes they lay in...

q My EE laid her first egg!

My EE's and Astralorp girls are 20 and 21 weeks old. They are not laying yet. My question is, if they don't start laying before the end of September, will they not lay until next spring? I was thinking of adding light to the coop to make them think it's still summer until they start to lay and...

I got my first peewee egg from my 14 week Astralorp yesterday. I tried to post a picture with no luck.

We are buthering our lambs today and I have about 10 pounds of lamb COBB, with molasses. Can I feed this my bids in small amounts?