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DH is going to the feed store for our monthly feed stock up. I noticed some worms in one of the hen's poop this morning, and some bloody poo yesterday. I have a couple of the younger ones acting a bit lethargic - they are still eating and fighting - just slow to get off the roost in the...

I have quite a mix of hens/pullets in my flock. I've only got a couple of hens that have been old enough to lay - the rest are just getting to that age. My hens (I have NO idea what breed they are) have been laying very brown eggs. Recently, my BO girls' combs have enlarged and turned red...

DH went out to the henhouse this morning and found one of our OEG mixed breed pullets dead on the floor. She was still warm and had not shown any sign of being sick at all. When I got home he told me there were two more dying. The pullets are about five months old or so. We had had a bout...

Is it too late in the year to start a batch of eggs in the incubator? Would any hens that hatch lay before next fall? Which is better - incubator or real mom for the eggs? I know nothing about baby chicks. We always bought adult hens. We had a couple hatch a clutch or two of babies, but...

I bought this roo about a month ago. I thought he looked like an RIR (I'm sure he's not purebred) but the guy I got him from said he wasn't RIR. I no absolutely nothing about chicken breeds (though I wouldn't mistake a white leghorn for a RIR, I hope! ). Can you tell what he is? I have some...

About a month ago, I bought some chickens from a guy being forced to sell out and moved. Most of the hens were just pretty much running wild and sleeping in trees. The roosters were kept in smallish coops/cages. My daughter noticed this roo and fell in love with him - just HAD to have him. I...

I'm so excited!!!! We got TWO eggs today - little pullet eggs! A few days ago, I thought for sure I was going to lose my whole flock to a respiratory disease - but whatever it was is gone just as quickly as it showed up. I was in the henhouse tonight listening for coughing, sneezing or...

This is my daughter's bird, "One-Eyed Jack." We have no idea what breed he/she is (would certainly like to know) We thought it was a roo, but he/she never crows and has never shown any interest in the hens. We put a real roo in the henhouse a couple of weeks ago. I expected a big fight and...

I know next to nothing about chickens, but we recently acquired several. I've never had this problem, but it suddenly seems to be running rampant through my little flock. The chickens will be fine one day, and struggling to breath the next. Some of them are coughing and sneezing. Some get...

Hello all! I'm new around here. My husband and I had chickens years ago - until a neighbor's dog found them. We decided not to get any more. Recently, my daughter and her husband and their kids moved next door to us. Her husband wanted his kids (from a previous marriage) to experience farm...