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Happy Chooks, Now there's some good news and thanks so much for the reply! Shelagh

emvikrey, I am very sad to hear this and so sorry for your loss. I'm sorry it took me so long to respond, I thought I'd get an email if someone responded, so I didn't see your note until I logged back in. You did everything you could and that's frustrating about DH but I know the same would...

emvickrey & happy chooks, how did either of your situations turn out?? I have a 4 year old Golden Comet whose sister Ginger died in her first year due I think to the fact that her eggs were just enormous for her body, some sort of "hybrid anomaly" is what I'd call it, she didn't get egg bound...

SO many great pictures, really enjoying seeing everyones' posts! I have found it's very challenging to get "good chicken pictures," but lots of people are succeeding! After many photo shoots, I feel like I got lucky with two nice mugs of my gal Brownie - she sports the straightest comb and...

I hope your girl pulls through and I'll tell you my girl Lily was attacked by a hawk and blinded because the talons punctured one eye and caused the other one to swell so that it caused damage from which her sight could not recover, but she made it through that first night when i kept her quiet...

From my experience, raccoons, though I have heard the same for weasels (but i've heard they'll slit the throats too and not necessarily eat the head) and owls too. A raccoon killed one of my girls and it was horrible, her head was gone and it also ate the crop out of her chest. Disgusting, even...

PS We have a cockatiel whose 26th birthday we're celebrating in 2 weeks. He's an outlier at that geriatric age; we love him and he is still so energetic and is recovering well from laser surgery for cancer!

Not sure exactly where you are but I live (and love my Buff Orps) in Bethlehem PA 18015. I belong to a Yahoo group called Henpecked that covers probably a 50 mile radius and it's a small group and lots of locals sell chickens. Are we anywhere near you? Shelagh Maloney

That is great news, and so true about chickens! That girl will remember being in the house and how nice it was, so be prepared, lol. I do keep a fan in the coop for the hot days (ran all summer) and I insulated my coop which keeps it cooler in summer and warmer in winter, just a plug for that...

Thank you, and how would I recognize if she got egg bound; I haven't had this happen yet, fortunately!

I uploaded a photo of an egg with major cracks around the middle, one of my girls has laid 3 like this. I have looked up odd eggs but this doesn't obviouly match any of the ones I found. I am concerned that I should figure out who is laying them and do something? They get plenty of calcium in...

I agree not to be too concerned about the egg, but her condition is concerning, when i have had an overheated chicken I've brought her inside and set her on a cool wet towel, and feed her something like a scrambled egg or pasta, some treat she likes, and return her when she seems better to the...

I believe I have had the same problem, indicated by the missing fluff feathers of 4 of my 11 chickens in my 15-month old flock (the affected ones are 1 barred rock and 3 Buff Orps). I think it is picking, but I have not been able to figure out who is doing it. I read that using mash feed...

I had 2 of my Buff Orpingtons go terribly broody on me, and it was very stressful for me and them! The one, I was certain she would starve to death, and in fact on my Yahoo henpecked group several people said it can happen. My one went broody for much longer than would have taken to incubate...

I love your smileys, they are great. So she's coming along? I have, as I imagine you have, read mixed things about one-legged chicken quality of life here, but I will say that in my personal experience birds are amazingly resilient despite their reputation otherwise, and so i would say see how...

I don't know for sure but I will tell you we have had what I thought was an albino skunk here for the past 2 years and now I think it's not that uncommon. It is pure white and sure likes to make noise so I come running out and then it slinks away when I put the flashlight right on it. I suspect...

My chickens are so spoiled I give them sunflower seeds, but I buy the shelled variety (out of the black casing) which are a little more expensive but no mess and they gobble them up, in the winter it's a fatty treat, in the summer it makes them chase the geese out of the yard (their competition...

If she is heat stressed I read you can bring her inside and put her on a cool wet towel and when i did this to one of mine she stopped panting and was fine shortly, and I returned her to the outside after dipping her in a little cool water also. If she is egg bound there are remedies, i haven't...

Read this post from start to finish and was very happy to hear how she's doing. I lost one of my favorite hens to a raccoon and it was just awful, the whole ordeal. I ended up shooting the raccoon 2 days later which wasn't gratifying and was hard being an animal lover, but I did it for my Lily...

I have used the frozen milk jugs since I read about it here, and it seemed to help. I half fill 2 jugs and freeze them and leave them in the run (day) or roost area (night) to emit coolness. I also have had a fan on constantly for the last month. I live in Bethlehem PA and we have had a hot...