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This hen we have has been sitting in the next for like three days. No eggs under her except a couple of fake ones. Today, I finally lifted her off the next to shooed her out to get some food and drink. I felt that she was extra warm on her belly, checked her out, and her belly is bare! It's...

We have one lone turkey in with our flock of hens (+1 rooster). We got several of the hens plus turkey girl from a friend who got them all as chicks at easter, then lost interest. Wondering if/when the turkey will lay eggs like the hens do. I'm sure she will...just wondering what age they...

Hello all. My little black hen Goldie is acting strangely as of about an hour ago. She was hanging around the water spigot and we noticed she kept drinking and drinking out of the pot the catches the water for the cat and dog. (It was cleaned and refilled with fresh, cold water just a bit...

So on Wednesday, we were thrilled to find our very first TWO eggs ever! Nothing on Thursday, one on Friday, nothing Saturday or Sunday. I'm not sure if the three eggs we've gotten so far were from one hen or two (or maybe three different ones?). Most of our hens are the same age, so I'm...

OH MY GOSH!!!!! I went out to feed/water the chickies, and one of my ausies was in the nesting box panting, and wouldn't come out for water or food. She didn't even spook and go running away when I get close, as she usually would. I'm thinking....she's acting like she's got an egg under her...

Okay, we're days from our very first processing of meat birds. We have some last-minute questions that we hadn't thoroughly considered before now. 1. We have large tubs to put ice water in to place the chickens in after processing. But.....then what? Doesn't the meat need to "rest" before...

At the insistence of my husband (Honey, they HAVE to get acclimated!), we put our younger hens in with our older hens/roosters. Of course, the pecking order establishment ensued and the newbies piled up in a corner of the fence. Plenty of room to breathe and not smother each other, but they...

So.....we have a bunch of chickens we wanna process, and we've never done it before. I've researched a lot on HOW it's actually done. Have a few people I know who are willing to come over and help us get it going. Show us real-time, ya know. We're really trying to raise them and benefit from...

Yay, yay, yay! Well, we got our chickens about six weeks ago or so, and, with a few exceptions, everything has floated along like a dream. They were kept in a huge cardboard box brooder for the first few weeks, and now for almost two weeks, they've been in the coop. Counting my blessings...

So last week, my husband woke me up hollering about the chicks being out and the dog eating them. He had one and had removed (and eaten?) its head. Dang it! We have/had one chick that has always been a little limpy, favoring one leg. Never noticed her being bothered by the others before. We...

Hi! We're Becky and Nolan from east central Indiana. We've gone a little berzerk and acquired 35 adolescent? chicks in the past week. 22 Black Australorps, 4 RIRs, 3 RIWs, and 6 Booted Bantams. With the Australorps, the tag on their bin said they are "sex-linked, straight run." I've found...