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Thank you all for your help! I love BYC...there are even helpful and visual tips for sending your chicken in for a test. @ChickenCanoe - yes! It's very possible. I'm in Northern CT, and it's been raining for days...weeks. I've been trying to keep the coop and run dry, but that's a high...

I started with 7 new chickens this spring. 2 were from a friend who hatched rare breeds, and 5 were from a poultry farm. In Nov, one of the rare breeds got very ill, before she began laying. Lethargy, unable to stand, no eating/drinking, extreme loss of body mass in a short about of time, bright...

Hi All! Update: all hens have settled! It took a solid week, and I'm sure there will be more ups and down, but Annie Potts...Aka the White Barred Rock, is mingling and feelin' fine. She free ranged with her girls today, and went to town on a cob of corn along side a couple of the others (Rose...

Thank you @KikisGirls

@Robin37, the 5 new hens came from a poultry/egg/breeder farm. They were pretty packed in a kennel run. They had for sure experienced rooster aggression. The timid one/white barred rock has almost all of her back feathers broken. There's even a great big bare knob near her tail-end. I'm...

Thank you so much @Pork Pie Ken! This is so kind and helpful!

The look on both of our faces when our "pullet" cock-a-doodle-doo'd for the first time.

Thank you @Robin37 !! I'm already in love with them!

I'm new to having chickens (long time dream come true). I had a tight knit group of 4, that I got when they were about 6 weeks old. 2 started crowing (about a week ago), and we found the roos another home. My goal was to trade the 2 Roos for 2 hens, but I came home with 5 hens (I hear that's...