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There are a tremendous amount of limping chickens on this board right now!

All, @azygous just posted this on a thread. I thought this is super informative and very true. I wanted to share it out.

Hi All, I have an Amish coop, its nice because I can walk in it to clean it, but it does not keep cool inside in the summertime at all. I find that during the day if the temp reaches more than 90 degrees outside, the coop does not cool off well at all at night. I'm looking for a better solution...

ETA: Hello BYC site moderators. Could I ask if locking threads to replies after a certain timeframe has ever been considered? Like maybe a year? There are a ton of people who reply to archival threads ,and it displays as if it were a new post. On the emergency forum there are four just tonight...

Hi everyone, I stockpiled fallen leaves in the fall in plastic bags to use in my deep litter in my chicken pen. I’m noticing when I get into a bag I’m seeing a lot of moldy leaves. Can I put the moldy leaves in the dlm in the pen? That logically doesn’t seem very smart to me, I’ve read mold...

Hello, I have a medical situation I would love to get opinions on. I have a Delaware hen that has a raw spot about 3 inches under her vent. It is red and irritated, but not bloody. Over the last probably two months we have noticed she has a messy butt. She is a white hen, so its noticeable...

Hi Everyone, Sorry to post this question in the more emergent issues forum and take up valuable space, but I’ve seen similar threads here and this is a bit of a complicated question. All of my birds are 10 months old, so the only experience Ive had with molting is one broody hen molting, and...

Hi Everyone, I took my BO hen to the vet today to look at her bumblefoot. He did a minor surgery on it and its wrapped. The hole is not too deep. He suggested I isolate the hen out of the pen with the rest of the hens to keep her foot clean. She is on antibiotics. I have six hens, two are broody...

Hi Everyone , I have a situation that is puzzling me. I have a buff Orpington that had a minor bumblefoot on both feet. I think based on what I've read here her bumblefoot was the type where it's from landing hard off the roost and there's not necessarily an abscess. I think I heard that can...

Hi Everyone, I have been doing deep litter in my about 16' x 10' uncovered run with six hens since April of this year. I live in the SF Bay Area. Things went great over the summer. The DLM stays on the dry side. The uncovered run stays shady and sheltered, which is great for the summer but not...

Hello, I have a BO that has bumblefoot on both feet. Both feet luckily were not bad and we are currently in the healing process waiting for the hole the scab/small core was in to heal completely up. I have a question about the healing process. I'll talk about the foot that was treated first. It...

Hi there, I was wondering if I need to offer my flock oyster shell during the winter even though they won't be laying eggs. They get fed layer pellets. Thanks so much.

Hi everyone, I am out of ideas so am turning to the construction experts. I have a Quaker coop. We are in Northern California and last year got a lot of rain, which flowed off of the coop roof into the pen. We would like a rain gutter at least on the larger side of the peak/roof. This coop was...

Hi there, I have one hen in my flock of six that I feel is thin. I can really feel her keel bone. She is a GL Wyandotte. She goes broody often and I catch it quick and broody break her and return her to the flock within three days. She is bottom or one higher than the bottom of the pecking order...

Hi everyone, I have a small flock of six 7 month old hens. All of them are laying, five of the hens are laying average 4-5 eggs a week each. The sixth hen is a Black Australorp. She laid later than the other hens by about a month and has never laid more than 2 eggs a week! When she does lay eggs...

Hi there--we have been dealing with a hot summer in Northern California. We just went through three days of 100 degree temps. Now the weather is forecasting a break over the next two days then 100 degrees for four straight days. I have 6 hens and most of them are not the most heat tolerant...

Hi there...everyone is so helpful here. I had a broody hen that I put in a broody breaker for 3 days. Im now trying to reintroduce her to her flock of 5 other hens (6 mos old). I have read a lot about using the playpen method for reintroducing injured birds and introducing new birds, but...

Hello, I have a flock of six hens in Northern California suburbs. I have the strangest situation I can’t put my finger on. I’ve done a lot of reading about broodiness on the forums. I feel like my situation doesn’t really fit the textbook broody situation. I have an almost 6 month old Golden...

Hello everyone, I am new to BYC. I will be a newbie to backyard chicken raising in Spring 2017 and am currently doing some planning. I have a question I have not found the answer to in Internet reading, so I've come here to the experts. We plan on getting 6 chicks (what the city ordinance...