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Well, "Helouise" is still up and actually looking better! Still no idea what her problem is, but her feathers are almost back to flat although her wings are still at half mast. She has to put her head up straight to breath in, and there is a rasping sound when she breathes out. I managed...

She only sneezes after drinking, but her breath is always raspy and a bit strained (has to lift her beak up and out to get air). I listed to her back, and she takes deep breaths, with no sign of raspiness there, so hoping it's not an infection. Hubs will have a fit if I go spend $50 on a $10...

Here's my ten-minute follow-up! After dipping her beak in some sugar water a few times, she realized she was very thirsty and has been taking frequent drinks. This is good. What is bad is that she makes a rasping sound after drinking and sort of snorts/sneezes/coughs afterwards too. At least...

Help! Several years ago I lost my four hens, one-by-one, to something I never could identify. They'd start by getting lethargic and sleepy all day. Then their wings would sag and finally their feathers would get all puffed up before they lost coordination, fell over and died. It wasn't the...

Well, we're down by one, the plucked one didn't make it as I kind of expected. I got a scrambled egg, a grape and maybe some water into the broken wing one. The crazy white rock gobbled up a grape and some feed. He'll probably be fine! Just going to keep watch on the one with the injured...

I should add the two hens are 5 month old plymouth barred rocks, the pecked chick is a 3-month old white rock. Thanks! Lisa in Ontario

When it rains it pours, and I've got a flood today. From the top: Three of my hens managed to escape their temporary yard, and the puppy dutifully captured two of them. By the time I found the awhile later, one was on her back, wings askew and the other was sitting in the grass in shock. I...

One of my Faverolle hens has been sitting on her eggs for 13 days now. There were 6-7 when she took to the nest. Today there are 14! Will a broody hen keep laying eggs once she starts sitting on them? Obviously, the other hen is sneaking in there for a bit to help out, I'm just wondering...

Here's my Heavy-Duty, Feeds-All-Week, $15 STOVE PIPE FEEDER. https://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=52279-stove-pipe-feeder First effort at posting a page here, hope it works!!! Lisa in Ontario

I'm raising a dozen barred rocks for my family for eggs and a little meat (6 are cocks). My goal is to start raising enough to sell commercially. We have a large Asian population nearby, and they prefer the dark meat birds, so the Rocks seemed like a good way to enter that niche market...

I was kind of wondering about the size issue! Guess we'll just give them a few weeks to settle in and see what happens!

I bought two French Faverolle hens on Tuesday. They were kept in a coop with a bunch of Banty roosters, and suffered a bit in the process. I also got the Faverolle rooster and am hoping to get some eggs for hatching from the match. How long will eggs be fertilized from whatever the Banties...

My barred rocks arrive tomorrow, so it was time to get the brooder ready. This year I'm avoiding the rats, weasels or whatever got my last set of chicks by brooding them in the horse trailer. It's a lovely two-horse with insulated sides and not a crack for any critters to get into! It's also...

So will an electric wire even phase a rat? I'll have three tractors running up and down the horses fenceline and only a coop on the egg layers tractor. Don't want to lose my meat birds in their wire pens! Lisa

I thought rats just took one or two then come back the next day, they won't wipe out their source so it will be there later on. An opossum might have dug a little hole to drag a body out through, but there were little carcasses all over the cage, so not sure how they could reach through the...

I am getting some Plymouth Rock chicks in about a week, and am trying to take efforts to protect them from whatever did my last flock in two years ago. We've had chickens for a number of years with no incidents, despite coyotes, raccoons and opossums on our property. But one week after the new...