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We bought a Premier 1 three-gallon heated waterer right before the winter of 2020-21, and I've been nothing but happy with it until today. I went out to check the flock's food and water this afternoon and was surprised when I lifted the waterer that it felt much heavier than I expected. I...

I was putting food scraps in a bowl for my flock when my wife, thinking it was for compost, tossed in some pesto leftover from dinner last night. That's fine for the chickens, right?

So I have a hen who recently started crowing, and since we live in a place where roosters are forbidden we really need her to stop (if anyone complains I really doubt "but look, she's a hen! She lays eggs!" is going to cut it). I've read this can happen when there is no rooster and the hen at...

We have a one-year old polish hen who is at the very bottom of the pecking order--I sometimes joke that in our flock of eight she's ranked tenth--who often separates herself from the flock. Lately she's taken to hanging out in the henhouse and nesting boxes. She scratches out the nesting...

I have a flock of eight chickens. I have five brown layers (barred rock, wyandotte, barnevelder, marans, and salmon favorelle), two white layers (both polish), and one easter egger. The two polishes, the salmon favorelle, and the easter egger are all pullets who are just now starting to lay...

Hi, I have four hens who are going through their first molt this fall (and my first molt as a chicken owner, too). Two molted in the late summer, and two just started. My question: do I need to worry that the two late molters seem to have waited for the cold snaps and 30-degree nights of Boston...

I recently learned that there is a mysterious songbird epidemic in the south and Mid-Atlantic, and it's spreading up into the northeast. I live in Massachusetts and out state is being advised to take down our bird feeders to help curb the spread. More info here...

We just integrated our 10-week old chicks into our existing flock. Last fall we transitioned our flock to a treadle feeder, and we trained them to use it by gradually going from having the feeder open all the time, to having it half open so they get used to the motion of stepping on it and...

A nice speckled egg, but there's a spot the size of a nickel that's just... lighter. Anything I should be worried about, you think?

We broke our broody two weeks ago and I'm pretty sure she hadn't laid an egg since. Is that normal? When should we expect her to start being productive again?

Our four chicks hatched and shipped yesterday, and now I'm doing that fun anxious thing where I check the USPS tracking info obsessively every 15 minutes. We ordered from Meyer--we had a good experience with them in the past, and our two orders from them arrived quickly (less than 24 hours for...

We have an 11-month old barred rock who I'm pretty sure has gone broody (she's in the nesting box a lot, but out and about more than I'd expect from a sitting mother, so I'm not 100% sure. More on that later). We're getting five more chicks from Meyer Hatchery in two weeks, and my family and I...

We have four 10-month-old pullets who are finally getting underway production-wise. My wife and I were doing some yardwork today when she called me over to look at something on the ground by our fence. At first we both thought it was a used condom (gross, I know) and that maybe someone walking...

We have four 10 month old pullets, and due to a combination of late starters and winter free loaders we didn't have our first four egg day until this past Tuesday. I was pretty excited. Then today, two days later, we get three eggs. But one is them... doesn't quite match. The top row are...

I almost didn't see this in the nesting box. It's... just a shell? What the heck is going on here?

My guess is maybe a calcium deposit?

This morning I had collected three eggs from our nesting boxes, so when I went out this afternoon to clean the coop and saw a chicken in the nesting boxes I was kind of excited. Our flock consists of four 10-month-old pullets, and this would make our first ever four egg day. I left to give her a...

Whenever I see this ad I covet this beautiful bird. What breed is this, do you think?

I've been trying to see if I could find a thread on this in the forum archives, but didn't have much luck. We just put in an order for chicks this spring, including one blue/black/splash chick. I'm curious if we'll be able to tell if she's going to be blue, black, or splash right away or if...

This is a bit of an odd request, but my family was talking about putting a camera in our chicken coop to keep better tabs on the girls. See who's laying, who's not, etc. Does anyone have any recommendations for a good camera for this purpose? Does anyone have anything like this in their coop...