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I believe my chicken is molting. She has stopped laying eggs and is losing many feathers. How long will this last?

I have one chicken that is not old enough to lay eggs yet. Two weeks ago I just got another adult chicken (Americana) that I don't know how old it is. When I first got the adult chicken she layed an egg a day for about a week. Now she has stopped laying. We are feeding her laying crumble. What...

I am not sure what my 1 month old baby chick is experiencing, but she "pulses" continually and her vent pops in and out about 1/8th inch. (Like a hemorrhoid maybe, or like she is trying to poo)? She had pasty vent issues for her first couple weeks, which I've been taking care of by running under...

When can I start feeding my 1 month old baby chicks yogurt?

One of my 3 baby chicks (1 month old) continues to get poo balls stuck at her vent. I have been removing them daily, but she still has issues. Should I be feeding them something different? I am currently feeding the chicks with the vitamin-filled chick food that I got at the farm store. When can...

one of our girls has gotten very aggressive lately and has started pecking two of the other chickens to blood. We put the rooster salve on the bloody chickens and sequestered the aggressive bird for a few days... which caused a lot of stress on all five birds... but especially the sequestered...

A few of our chickens are being pecked badly on the backside by some of our other chickens ... to the point of blood. Eugh. Is there a way to stop this and is there a treatment for the injury?

I have 8 hens that have just started laying eggs. One hen pecks the top of her egg, so every one she lays has a little hole in the top. Can I stop her from doing this, and are the eggs ok to eat?

i have two chickens that are 1yr old and 6 more that have been seperated and are now 2 months old, do you think it is safe to put them together yet?

We have two red hens that we rescued last spring. We don't know their ages or what kind they are, but they have been good egg layers and healthy, happy birds for several months. We had a very cold spell here in Idaho a few weeks ago, (single digits for a week)which has passed now (we are back in...

Last week we noticed our Plymoth Rock chicken started acting listless. Her comb fell over and she has lost quite a few feathers. Also, there was a strange organ-like, chestnut shaped something in the coop with her feathers sticking out of it that I believe she passed. She is still not acting...

I have one chicken that is laying shelless eggs (2 in the last 2 days) and I understand that I need to give her oyster shell for calcium. How much do I give her and will it be okay for the other chicken to eat it too, even though her eggs are normal. Any other info I might need to know would be...

Yikes! My two chicken were squaking all afternoon as if an egg was being laid. I went to check on them and there are no eggs, but in the place where my white Americana chicken (who has uncharistically not laid for several days) is what looks to me like the insides of an egg, with a broken yolk...

One of our Americana hens has dug a hole up against the house, is laying down in it, pecking and digging deeper and, it seems, attempting to roll over in the hole. We rescued these hens 4 months ago and they've been laying and acting "chicken normal" since the beginning of the year. We've never...

I rescued two chickens from a relocting neighbor in October and both were egg layers proir to the move.It has been two months now and not one egg. Is this normal? and do chickens stop laying or lay less in the winter?

A few days ago we rescued 2 Americana chickens from a friend who moved. He said that the white one was always more mellow, but I see the chicken as wobbly and lethargic. She never comes outside of the coop, barely scratches and is losing quite a few feathers. My husband says he thinks it's...

We have just rescued a couple of chickens from a friend that had to move. The chickens were laying eggs before but since the move have not laid an eggt in three days. Does this seem normal and does anyone have any idea of how long it might be before they start laying again?

Will feeding kitchen scraps that I would normally throw in the compost bin (in particular, onions skins/pieces, etc) change the taste of our chickens eggs?