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I have a student who is designing and building a chicken coop for her school project this year, and we have decided that we might like to try to hatch the eggs while we are building. We were looking at this set for quail, but I was wondering if you had any suggestions for other sets. We would...

My flock has had fairly poopy butts lately; nothing runny, but just like they can't get it past their tail feathers. I grabbed one chicken to give her a trim and wash and found two round "sores" (they weren't red, brown, with no blood) filled with tiny, writhing creatures above her cloaca on...

I put Mabel, the black Orp, in a wire cage a couple days ago; how do I know when to take her out? It seems to me that she might just run straight back to the nest at this point. We don't have a rooster, so there is no sense in a broody hen, and she has been very persistent.

We just lost a hen two weeks ago (fine in the a.m., 6 hours later, dead), and now we have another sick one. 1) What type of bird , age and weight. RIR, between one and two years old 2) What is the behavior, exactly. a bit sluggish, not cackly like usual. Crusty ear vents (I don't know if that...

Found a chicken today, dead. She is one of a pair of chickens that we got almost a year ago who chronically pooped on themselves (not diarhhea, but somehow couldn't get it past the tail feathers, even the other fluffy-butt chickens could do it). Here is the WAAAAAY TMI.... It looks like...

...starts Friday, but you have to contact the site to let them know you're in. Info here: http://www.honeyfern.org/NaNoFiWriMo_-_Apr.html Should be fun!!

Here is a stupid question... My three chooks are in a partially covered run that is about 10 x 5 (estimate). They have a short roost and a little doghouse that they sleep in in cold weather and lay eggs in. How do I clean their run? It seems like an odd question, but the run is dirt, and I am...

I mean this in the most innocent way possible, I swear. I don't have a lot of time on this forum, so I don't know the tone, but I really don't mean anything by it. Not trying to pick a fight or ruffle feathers. I have contemplated getting a few meat birds, but I don't know if I would be able...

One out of my three chickens has diarrhea. She is eating and drinking fine, no blood in poo, neither of the others has it. I put some probiotics in the water, along with a little sugar. They are all drinking fine. It has been three weeks. No change. No worms. No recent food change, and no...

Came out this morning to one dead chicken (out of two). She was totally fine last night. This morning, she had a little bit of blood on the side of her head and was discovered behind her roosting pole, but that was it. No signs of struggle, no signs of predator, no other marks or missing...

I give my two girls a standard layer crumble, plus they have ground to scratch. Occasionally they get a tomato or some bread, but other than that I don't do calcium or minerals or anything else. Is that enough? The eggs are delicious and have a good shell, and the girls seem happy and...

My sneaky little hens "stopped laying" this week (which I thought was perfectly reasonable because it has been incredibly hot and they are just 6 months old - although both laying for at least a month during the hottest weather on record in my state), but when I moved their tractor to the side I...

I have two pullets in a new chicken tractor; they have been in the same place for 8 days. Mostly they are pooping the straw in the covered area and eating/scratching in the run, so the ground isn't too funky. There is still grass, and they are still scratching around (I don't care if they...

I am brand-new to chickens (as an adult - had a ton when I was a kid), and I was curious about a first aid kit for chickens (we have one for horses, and one for humans). What would you stock in a chicken first aid kit?

Just got two Rhode Island whites (is this a real kind of chicken?), 3 months old, and I brought them home and put them in their new ark with open bottomw, food, water, lots of bugs and grass...and they aren't moving around. They pooped a bunch and haven't had any food or water or even left the...

I don't quite have chickens yet, but I am hoping there is a chicken tractor in my future this weekend (for Mother's Day), and I am trying to gather some basic info. We missed the peeps at TSC this year and are looking for 5 or 6 RIRs for eggs. I am so excited!! I grew up with 50 chickens...