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I went out to feed the chickens this evening and one of my girls was missing a lot of feathers and was fairly bloody on the back of her head and neck. I wasn't sure what happened when suddenly the roo attacked her twice and I could see blood flowing from the back of her neck. I raced in to save...

A friend of mine wants to give me one of his Cemani roosters. I'm a little concerned that when he breeds with my Rhode islands, sex links, & Americanas they will be poor egg layers.

Anyone know what's going on with his

After having chickens for just over a year, we had our first predator break in. Whatever it was it killed and devoured 1 of my americaunas, and stole 7 eggs.

I had a silkie hen laying on 5 eggs for about 3 weeks. I walked in 1 day and all of the eggs GONE. No remenants of them or anything. I haven't the foggiest idea what happened. Any ideas?

I am trying to decide on building our run out of wood or just buying one of these metal runs im seeing on wayfair.com or amazon. I am trying to stay cost effective as the hardware cloth seems expensive to buy and be time consuming building from scratch. Any advice?

I have 3 silky (1 rooster)and 3 black sex link. One of my girls is not laying. I have consistently gotten 4 eggs A-day for about a month. I'm not sure which 1 of my girls is malfunctioning.

I have 3 Black Sexed Hens l, 2 Silkie Hens, and 1 Silkie Rooster. They are around 6 months old and none of them will roost at night in their coop. They huddle in the corner no matter the temp. They have tons of room in their coop and the bars are definitely wide enough.

(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? - we bought our first 6 chickens this past Summer. (2) How many chickens do you have right now? -6 (3) What breeds do you have? -3 Silkie and 3 Black Sexed (4) How did you find out about BackYardChickens.com? Just through...