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I'm not totally new - but I haven't been real active either. Maybe there is a better category for this post, and if so please let me know and I'll move it. I started off several months ago with my coop and 6 chickens (well - 5 chickens and a female impersonator who was banished!). Due to the...

Thanks for the replies. While she may have been "curable" I believe she was suffering and without knowing what to do decided to put her down rather than let her deteriorate. I'll try to be better prepared next time, for the sake of the rest of the flock.

Evidently one of my hens is doing really poorly. There is a discharge coming from her tail-end (I'm pretty sure it's diarrhea) and her head is lolling to one side and twitching a bit. She's very weak - but her eyes are still open. We've isolated her in a pet carrier and put water in there...

Quote: Thanks! It was a lot of work, and I've been unsure of whether I did it right or not... When we bought our property we had a covered pole barn on one part. I enclosed one side of a corner with latice and 1" mesh, then the other three sides with just the mesh. I also built a small...

I've been lurking here for months and should have posted quite a while ago! I started my "all hen" flock several months ago (end of October) and now have three active layers out of a total of 6 chickens. Thanks to other board members I have confirmed that my "all hen" flock has an intruder! A...

Bummer Well I guess HE is about 5 months old (he was much smaller when we bought him). Now I have to figure out what to do with him. We have a "no rooster in the coop" policy and free ranging him with my peacocks and guineas makes me nervous (most of our guineas end up at the undesirable...

Ok - heck of a way to indtroduce myself to the group. I've been trolling around for some time now, built my coop using suggestions on here and have had great luck so far. I have 6 chickens in my coop (the limit I placed on space) and three are laying well. I am hoping that the three that...