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We have a 3-4 year old ISA brown. She started acting sick a few days ago. Yesterday, it was very obvious that her abdomen is full of fluid. My first thought is water belly, so I took a syringe and drained a little bit. It was clear fluid. Any ideas? I stopped draining and kept her inside...

Our 2 little bantams are always snuggled with the roosters! There's always one with her tail sticking out from under him. I guess they figured out a way to stay warm!

We have a sapphire gem pullet. She's about 5 months old. On Thursday night, she wasn't walking very well. She would walk, and then collapse on her butt and stay sitting down. I checked for an egg internally, and didn't feel anything. I gave her a warm soak, dried her off, and let her stay in our...

We had to kill one of our roosters yesterday. He was our favorite and had such a personality! Unfortunately, he was too rough on the hens. Whipping them around, causing wounds. They would scream and hide from him when he came near. We just had 2 chicks hatch a week ago and he went in and...

I'm not sure if I posted in the right spot, sorry if it's not! I had someone come and pick up several dozen eggs. She ended up tripping on something while walking out our door. She dropped 2 dozen eggs and most of them broke. I replaced the broken ones at no extra cost to her. I had to pull a...

7 month old brahma started showing signs of illness on Saturday. Very lethargic, huddled in a corner with her tail hung low. She would still get up on the roost at night and her crop would have a little bit of food in it. She stayed the same for a couple days. I checked to see if she was egg...

She/he was hatched out by our broody hen and is 14 weeks old now. Up until recently, I was confident she was a pullet - the tail is throwing me off a little bit now. Thought I'd turn to the experts! Thoughts?

Why do people you know (friends/family) expect their eggs for FREE?? Maybe I'm the only one with the problem, but I've had several people (people who I do work business with, siblings) just want eggs for free. Don't even offer me any money. My fault for allowing it a couple times. I don't...

Have a broody hen. We kept taking her off the eggs hoping she would break (we had just had a hen hatch out 5 babies a couple weeks before) - didn't work. We picked out 3 eggs and put them under her. 1 broke and 1 didn't develop, so we were left with 1. It pipped last night. She's been in the...

So, we've got a broody hen. We just had a hen hatch out 5 chicks for us a couple weeks ago, so we didn't want a bunch more chicks. We picked out 3 eggs we wanted to hatch and gave them to her. It's about day 9 or 10. One of the eggs got stepped on and broke and one isn't developing. So, now we...

We had a broody hen that originally was sitting on 13 eggs. A couple broke, one disappeared and 2 stopped developing. She had 8 eggs in the end. They were all alive and moving 4 days before they were due to hatch. 5 hatched within 5 days and are doing great! The other 3 hatched and all died...

This is our first year with a broody hen, so I apologize in advance for any stupid questions! She started out with 9. They were all alive and moving as of Sunday (5 days ago). We had one die in the shell, so down to 8. We have 4 that have hatched and are doing great! I went out this morning...

So, our broody hen has 9 eggs. They are set to hatch this week and our weather is crappy. It's 33 degrees right now and supposed to get down to 27. Snowing. Lows from 32-34 for the next 3 days. Will the chicks be warm enough? Should we put in a heat lamp? I wish summer would just get here...

Our wyandotte went broody and has been sitting on 11 eggs. We started out with 13, but one got knocked out somehow and have no clue what happened to the other one. They are due to hatch in about a week. The past couple days we have noticed that our barred rock has been sitting on the eggs while...

Hey everyone! So, we're into our second year of owning chickens and we've got a broody hen. She has been sitting on 13 eggs since last Thursday, the 2nd. Is there anything we need to know?? One egg did break and I had to clean up the nesting box. I've candled a few and can see veins. Is it...

I'm sure this has been posted several times, I'm hoping to hear success stories! We have an existing flock of 13 chickens. They are about a year old now. We have 9 chicks who are about 5 weeks old. Our original plan was to have 2 separate flocks. However, we would like to just combine them so...

A little background: We have 2 roosters who we've had since they were chicks. They are about 7-8 months old. Out of nowhere, they started fighting today. It wasnt anything too severe, but they both had blood on their faces. It seems that our welsummer has surrendered to our wyandotte (the...

I am struggling big time with this. We need to put down our rooster. He suddenly got mean and aggressive. I went out this morning to let our hens out, and he instantly attacked me. Like he wouldn't let me leave. I kicked him off over and over, and he would just keep coming back. He has attacked...

We noticed one of our ISA brown hens is much smaller than all the others. She seems very skinny and we can definitely feel her breast bone. We watched her drink water, she seems fine and her comb is red. I brought her in our house and she's eating scrambled egg. She has also pooped 3 times...

Hi everyone! We have a Welsummer rooster. He' about 5.5 months. He's always been a good boy, but recently he's been getting very mean and aggressive. He goes after us if we try to pick up one of the hens, he went after my husband 3 or 4 times the other day. He went after me once when I picked up...