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Three days ago I gave the hens a quick look, counted them and locked the coop door. Next morning my kids open the coop door. Late in the day I was told that the Sussex was missing, we looked everywhere without success. Today I found her dead in a corner inside the coop behind the closed bucket...

Any thoughts or comments would be appreciated

I was accustomed to having 4-5 eggs per day from my five pullets. A month ago my feed supplier was out of my usual chicken feed so I had to buy a 16% protein feed. I had to go out of town for two weeks, when I got back I started to usually get only two eggs per day. In the past two days I have...

No she began laying laying around 7 months ago. Have not seeing any bullying. there is nothing new as far as I know except Just finished the once a month inspectIon of the coop and worked on any tunnels, etc that rats or other animals have been working on. I

Both times it’s happened at sundown.

Over the past two weeks I have found a broken egg below the roosting bar. 1) is this due to a health problem ? 2) should I reposition the poop tray under the roosting bar to be 4-6 inches below the bar ?

We had a nasty storm come by yesterday, could that explain it ?

Thanks. I do have fake eggs in the box least used. It’s not as if they prefer one of the boxes, they are doing it in both boxes. Could it be a defensive mechanism against a predator ? My wife has pointed out that the hens have been rather loud the past two days. I noticed the same yesterday but...

My hens, (3 BO, 1 EE, 1 SS)are behaving odd and I do not understand it. Three are 14 month old, the others under a year. Up to about 8 weeks ago they would wait their turn and lay in only one of the two nesting boxes. They then started using both boxes. Few weeks ago I started seeing two using...

The EE is my best layer and she seems to always lay early in the day. Our BO are good layers but lay at all hours of the day.

From the advise I received it’s important that the hen body’s temperature Drops. So keep her in the cage and have the cage elevated so air can flow below the hen. I also placed an ice packet, wrapped in a plastic bag below the cage. I would not keep her in the garage if it’s warm in there.

Had the same issue last week with a BO. Followed the advise given, put her in a small cage and she broke in 24 hours.

Oh, though it was Montana

Am also a newbie, started 1 year ago. You are on the right site as there are many here who share their knowledge and truly want to help us.

Cannot say about your area but your coop would kill my chickens. Due to the high humidity and high temperatures we need open coops. Attached is a picture of mine.

One of mine went broody last week and following the advise of aart and others on this site it took only 24 hours to break her. I would post a link to the advise I was given but don’t know how to, you can search for it. I attended UM, where in Montana are you

I did not mention the coop. Mine is an open coop, three sides are hardware cloth, one wall is solid in order to block the rain. Trees also give shade to the coop.

Weather report says it feels like 104 in south Florida today. My 5 hens free range in 4000 sq feet area which has 4 water containers and multiple trees for shade. It’s pretty simple, water and shade.

Mine free range so they often get rained on. They seem to love a little rain, may be due to worms and bugs coming out of the ground. If it storms they find shelter under trees or run into the coop.

Yikes that’s pretty loud. your property looks really nice, I spoke to my wife about possibly starting to look at property in the country. Now that I am retired am tired of living in the city and would like to move out.