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Thank you. I just wanted to add a little something to that. I have a lavender orpington, which I love, who has pendulous crop issues, sometimes it turns into sour crop. I have noticed that when roosting, her crop hangs down over the roost; so I've been bringing her in at night, so she can lay...

I've had golden sexlinks (hybrid), orpingtons and barred rock. By far, the barred rocks are most fun. They are very talkative and inquisitive. I believe they are smarter than any other breed I've experienced. First to figure out new things, able to teach tricks to, and a healthy heritage breed...

I dread going away and leaving my chickens to another's care. Since the chickens, I have only traveled by myself and left my husband to care for the girls. Well, even that wasn't a good choice. He doesn't love them like I do. Unfortunately, for me, I have a complicated set up. Even though I...

I appreciated reading this thread because I have the changing of egg color going on with my BR. At first Chanel laid huge, round, medium brown eggs. Her flockmate, Ms. Dior, was later to start laying and laid light speckled brown eggs. A month later, Chanel is laying light brown eggs and Ms...

I have a very sweet, fat, Lavender Orpington, Thelma. I can not tell if she has an impacted crop or it is just fat cause finding her crop is difficult. My other L.O. Louise, only lays every other day, and she is slim - we thought she was a Louie for a long time. She looks like a rooster and...

We have a 10x20 metal wire enclosure with 2 coops in it. Seems to work well. The Yaris are for rain and to block north wind on cold days.

I use astro-turf in the coop. I have a small coop for 4 chickens, so I put a piece of astro-turf the size of the coop floor. In the morning, I remove the turf, dump the poop off into a large flower pot, lined with a plastic bag; then, hose the turf off and let it dry before putting it back in...

How long have you been treating her? One of mine had this happen Friday, Aug 30, beginning of Labor Day weekend. We got her to vet who diagnosed dislocated hip. He seemed to think it could heal on its own, and she’d be able to walk with a limp in a few weeks. Are you saying that there’s probably...

I had that oroblem and someone from SABYC suggested scrambled eggs mixed with finely ground egg shell, oregano and cinnamon. To make the shells easy to grind with rolling pin nuke them 55 seconds. Feed this just to the hens. Worked for me.

Where do you get the electrolytes? I have four GSL hens about 28 months old. Very hot here. Lately one had been laying Shell-less eggs three days in a row. Have not figured out which one. Would electrolytes help?

Here is a picture of them cooling off in the turkey roaster!

My girls are funny. It's hot here in Texas. I put a little water in the kiddie pool with a rock in the center. Occasionally, they'll go in there; but they really prefer to go into a small dishpan size container, singly. In fact I've put out my turkey roaster with a few inches of water in it...

Reply: We have a small coop/pen combination, with 3 nesting boxes (which I turned into one large one by removing dividers). Our whole setup is about 6' x 4', the upper coop area being only about 4 sq feet. Our four chickens are fine in this setup. They have always slept very close together...

If you have only hens, and she makes the call after laying an egg, are the other hens expected to escort her?

That’s a lot of Roos!

Would it work to just wash with a warm wet wash cloth and some baby shampoo?

Well, don’t tell my girls. They get nada at night. I’m not going to change that. Coop itself is quite snail: 3 square feet; on cold nights I close them in, and don’t get them up til sunrise. It’s been unseasonably cold and rainy this fall in SE TX, a few nights below freezing already. If it’s...

I think adding alcohol to the water would delight the chickens and keep water from freezing. Jk of course

Don’t be messing with that HEN! If one of my four starts to grow those weapons, it’ll be Nacho (profile pic)! She’s an instigator and leader of my little flock!