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my 4 year old Americana is acting perfectly normal. My son noticed her swollen eye yesterday. I have 6 hens including her. Everyone else is looking and acting normal. Never had any health problems. I do have a huge population of house sparrows this year eating my girls food and drinking thier...

I have 6 hens 2 easter eggers, 2 brahmas, 2 rocks. i am getting a blue egg every other day right now. I think it is coming from my most timid hen pecked girl. I am surprised to be getting ANY eggs at all right now. It is March in Massachusetts, it is freezing out ...there is more daylight...

I had 8 hens for about 1 yr. Gave two to my sister. She has had them about a year. She is going on vacation for 2 weeks and wants me to board her hens. I took them for her last summer and it was no problem. I do not want to overcomplicate this...but I am a bit worried....Will the girls all...

she is trying to sleep in the same nesting box the other girl did. When i picked her up to move her to the roost she drops like a rock to the ground and sets there ;(. So I put her in chicken jail (dog crate). Feels so mean but it worked so great last time I don't want to screw around.

I would like to plant a small tree or shrub inside my chicken run. It is a small run. I have 9 hens but I am trying to 2 give away- said they would take them months ago...but havent yet! There is little shade for several hours/day plus there are hawks visiting lately and i think the girls need...

desperate for a containment for my 9 girls. they are almost a year old. They have done so much damage to my wood fence, eating the paint off my house, didding up plants, eating plants of course, pooping everywhere and hopping over our 4 foot fence into the front yard to dig up plants there. I...

I think my girls are bored. They are pecking at and eating our painted wood fence and garage. They started with small bits just pecking when the ground was covered with snow. Today I noticed that they have done substantial damage to about 10 peices of fencing! This is so destructive and it is...

3 of my 9 girls like to roost (sleep)sitting on the walls of the nesting boxes. Filling several of the boxes with lots of poop! Its gross! and I think some of my chickies don't want to lay in the poopy boxes. but sometimes they do and the eggs are coated in poop. Why wont these 3 roost with...

She is not sick just very dirty. It is 40 degrees outside. I have 9 hens, I got them all this past spring. One of my Buff Orpingtons has a nearly fist sized poop stuck on her feathers about 2 inches below her vent. Should I just leave it there? Should I bring her inside and try to soak her...

my girl 23 1/2 week old Plymouth Barred Rock won't leave her nest. I accidentally stressed her out perhaps by bugging her in her next yesterday (she never did lay) and today by putting buckets in her favorite nesting box because her sisters were trying to sleep in in last night. This...

My girls are 13 to 17 weeks old. they have decided to perch on the walls of their nesting boxes so their nightime deposits land IN the nesting boxes. Will they ever lay where the s&*%? Do I have to set up a secluded "clean nesting box that they might find more appealing to lay their eggs in. I...

Can anyone identify this girl? she came in a surprise delivery she arrived at a 2 days old and was neon yellow little chick. no markings at all. Now she is pure white bright yellow legs and beak almost orange. she was part of a box of 8 chicks...an order I thought I had cancelled!!! I think...

It is going to be 61 tonight, their first night outside. 9 chicks; 2 of them are 7 weeks old, 1 is 6 weeks old, 4 are 5 weeks old and 2 are 4 weeks old. They have never slept outside but I think temps inside have been that cold but they had a hover heater- looked like they had not been using...

Tomorrow I am getting 4 replacement chicks for 4 that died from shipping stress- hopefully this 4 will will survive shipping!!. I have 2 chicks that are a week old, these survived shipping. 1 EE in great shape lots of energy, trying to fly a bit. 1 light brahma who is our tiniest and had a...

Our adorable chick has a horrible looking vent. there is a large pink protrusion where the vent should be. - the chick is pooping, peeing, eating and drinking but I feel worried because we have 2 other chicks (we ordered 6) It is sad ...an angry pink wet looking protrusion coming out of the...

We received our first baby chicks from Ohio. We ordered 2 Brahmas, 2 EEs 1 white cochin and 1 lavender orpington. Our coop is planned and will be built in a few weeks. I spent many hours researching and reading up over the past few weeks but despite feeling prepared we are struggling! 3 of our...