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My black Australorp has something going on with we comb. A small area was white for the last week. Today I’m noticing a larger area is white. It doesn’t look dry or flaky, it just looks like the color was sucked out of it. Like a snow cone that was sucked of its coloring. It’s been cold at...

I posted about this before and didn’t receive any responses. One of my hens, who only started laying in the last 3/4 weeks and has only given me about 5 eggs, has been having yellow stools. She’s acting normal otherwise. Should I be concerned by these?

I have been finding loose, yellow stools on my poop board where the same hen roosts. She has evidence of it on her bottom so I know it’s her. I was questioning vent gleet, but I have other chickens with stools that are making me question coccidiosis. Here’s why I’m seeing ... I wasn’t...

I’m sorry for the photo, but can anyone tell me if this is normal chicken poop? I just got two new EE’s last weekend and their poop looks different and smells horrid. Not sure if it’s just because they were in different food from my current flock, but hoping they didn’t come with worms?

11 weeks old. Not friendly. Always trying to chest bump me. I actually have two of the same breed and age and this one is just more defensive/aggressive. I also noticed his/her legs are much thicker than the other and the face is getting red while the other pullet is very pale pink still...

My 23 week old Australorp laid her first two eggs last Sunday and Monday. She has not produced an egg since. Is this normal? She’s acting 100 percent herself and showing zero signs of anything being remotely wrong with her.

I currently have two different flocks. My first and oldest flock consists of SL Wyandotte’s and 1 Black Australorp, all 21 weeks old. My second group is a mix of (2 of each) Buff Orpington, Light Brahma, Cream Legbar and Olive Eggers just shy of 10 weeks old. The “babies” have been in a grow...

I have 5wk old chicks(6wks on Monday) who moved into the coop today. They are in their own space to separate from my 17wk old flock. I had food and water inside with them all day, but removed both this evening. My intentions are to put the food and water back in the morning and continue to...

I currently have 9 and 12 week old chickens eating grower/finisher. I have new baby chicks coming next week. I know the babies eat starter feed, but when they eventually join the rest of the flock, how do I feed everyone when I will at that point have lying hens and still young non laying hens...

We have 9 week old chickens who have been living in the coop for a week now. They can’t figure out the roosting bars. We have two roostings bars ( 2x4’s ) over a poop board. Every evening , I go to the run and corral them into the coop. I place them on the roosting bar, but first I place each...

I have a Silver Laced Wyandotte who is 7/8 weeks old. We moved everyone out to the coop this weekend and when they were in the run, we noticed one chick was walking funny. She will walk normal and then she rolls to the back of her feet and quickly lays down. She looks like she’s losing balance...

We are new to having chickens. It took me quite a while to convince my husband to let me have them. He keeps reading things on the internet about mice/rat problems with owning chickens. Is it a guaranteed thing that we will have mice/rats if we own chickens? What are your beat tips for avoiding...

Should the food and water go inside the coop or the run?

I have been reading posts about deworming chickens. Should I be preventively deworming my chickens or do you only treat if you see a problem? If you treat them regularly, how often and with what?

I got 6 Silver Laced Wyandotte pullets recently. This was after getting 6 straight run chicks and 5 of them being roosters. So I get my 6 pullets to make sure my one hen from the first batch of chicks isn’t lonely. Here we are 4 weeks later and one of the pullets has a yellow comb and little...

Hi. We are suspecting that we have quite a few roosters at the moment. 3 of them seem to be bullying our only female constantly. I know we can keep all of the roosters. My neighbor wasn’t thrilled about me wanting to keep even 1, nonetheless 4. These guys are 7 weeks old roughly. When do I...

Hi. New chicken mom from Massachusetts here. This is my first time raising chickens and I’m hoping to gain all the knowledge I need to raise a happy, healthy flock

Hi all! New to the world of chickens and looking for some input. I know it’s still pretty early to tell, but any guesses as to how many rooster’s are in this flock? We have 4 Australorps and 2 Welsummers (6 was old). I think 2 or 3 of my Australorps are roosters. Two of them are always...