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This particular hen has been acting "funny" for a while. . .just a general malaise. For a while she wasn't going to the upper perches with the rest of the girls when it's bedtime. . .she was staying on the lower perch with the rooster. After a while, she resumed joining the ladies on the upper...

I'm just really having bad luck with my birds lately. I had 11 pullets, raising them from 3 weeks old. Within the first week I lost 2 to coccidosis. Thereafter I lost one to a snake, and in the course of two separate nights in their 17th week lost the remaining 8 and a young rooster to what...

The dictionary says "a female chicken under one year old." Okay, but is a day old biddie a female chicken? I lost all my chickens (don't ask) and months ago ordered 8 barred rock pullets and one rooster from a local shop with a good reputation for healthy poultry. Today was pick up day and...

One of my hens laid this egg this morning. It must've been pretty painful because as you can see, it's covered in a chalky substance. In some places it's powdery but in other places it is very thick and almost cement-like! There is a bit of blood on the egg as well. The three RIRs are...

My rooster is very old and has worn out his cockadoodledoo. Other than his voice, he's doing really well and makes a point of mounting the girls, albeit only every now and then. Anyway, one of the hens seems to have taken over the morning wake up call. She goes to the coop door and starts...

I've seen no sign of trouble in any of my flock. Early ast evening this one hen was under the coop while everyone else had roosted for the night. I shooed her into the coop and she had no trouble getting up the ramp and into the coop to join her cohorts. I thought the fact that she was alone...

I killed my chickens! As you all may or may not know, in an effort to deal with small hive beetle, my chickens live peaceably with my bees, all fenced in by chain link fence in a run 9 X 50. Up until today, that is. On Inspection yesterday, I found a laying worker hive. I've done this before...

He recently was showing signs of a respiratory problem. He's a very mean bird (but I love him anyway) and after chasing me to the door of the run, he was breathing very hard and I could hear his lungs were congested. That was a few days ago and since then I've tested his lungs and I thought...

Of all names to pick as my login! I lost Fanny the other night to a possum. 12:20 am, sound asleep and heard a scream. Other chicks and the rooster were going crazy. I went out to the run to find a possum had grabbed my favorite Fanny and was chewing on her butt. So angry, I just grabbed...

I've posted about Fanny before, but things have changed. The problem started because she was sleeping in the nesting box rather than on the perch with all the other girls. I thought she was eggbound but she was not. A couple of days prior, the chickens had been freeranging and "something"...