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We've had two tries this summer with broody hens, the first time eggs were found broken or missing and I just thought they were no good or exploded.... But last night I went out to the coop and found a chick hatching under our broody hen, I left her alone with it and figured she could handle it...

Hello! I wasn't sure where to post this, but we had a coop fire this winter and lost all but a hen and rooster - who have been living in our basement for the remainder of the winter. Needless to say they want out and I want them out we have a friend willing to give us six or seven hens so that...

I never thought I would put heat in my coop... But with the -50 coming we decided to put in a Rubber heat mat thinking it was the safest... Low and behold we woke up to smoke in our coop... All but 2 chickens suffocated from smoke inhalation... Now I have to that are having a hard time breathing...

I have a rooster with frostbite on his comb :( This is my first winter with chickens I feel so bad I didn't catch it sooner. What can I do for him?!

I've never composted before and this is my first summer with chickens and I have come to realize that there are a lot of shavings that need to be taken care of. I'm using an already made Coop that was on the property I am renting and it holds up to 50 chickens and I have 8. So it takes a lot of...

So we stapled in the hardware cloth but when I pull on it it breaks, would it be strong enough if an animal (racoons) were to pull on it, would it hold? Is there a better option?

So my chicks were planned to go out to the coop this weekend, but it turned out to be 97 degrees today. Is it too hot to take them out? If they are panting should I bring them back in? I put cold water bottles in with them and they seemed to be alright now (they were all panting a lot at first)

Is there a good way to give chicks liquid medicine without aspirating? I've seen a lot of ways to give it to adult birds but it's hard to get inside a little chicks mouth and make sure it's going down the right way, do you just do little drops at a time? I've been trying to give her her doses in...

I am renting a house with an old chicken coop on the property, we have already began fixing it up and aside from putting in a new chicken door, building the run, and patching up a whole we will be done. But I'm curious what's best to put on this cement floor, it's cracked so I can't put down...

So this might be an odd question but I'm brand new to chickens and I had a chick (4 weeks) with an upper respiratory problem so I started her on the 1/10 of tylan 50 2x a day. On the third day she looked better and seemed to be all good so I stopped for day four but the nextnext one of her eyes...

A few weeks ago one of my little chicks would open and close her mouth while snuggling in my hand, she wasn't gasping necessarily just open and closing and only when she had her eyes closed and was still. She was eating and drinking and pooping all fine, so I treated for cocci with corid and...