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Hey everybody. I can find this answer so I’m posting. Please someone tell me how to direct dose a chicken who has been laying only soft eggs since beginning laying. About 3 weeks. I’ve just started calcium treatment. Other chickens are fine. HOWEVER she is lethargic. Drinking but not eating and...

I know there are a ton of threads like this. Sorry. I can’t find out how LONG it takes to grow up and make “big girl” eggs with a hard shell. My two barred rocks are 8 months old with no apparent health problems. One lays a beautiful egg everyday, and the other one lays a blob of an egg with...

My little guy is 3/4 months old. His mom started to peck him a lot about a month ago. So I put him in an enclosure near my back door. At 6:15 every night I prop my back/bedroom open. He waltzes in, hops on my dresser, and snuggles up and peeps sweetly to my ostrich feather duster that is laying...

I’m from inland So Cal. I just got some random chickens from a friend. I hope to not buy eggs. I have a veg. Garden and want to use chickens to keep bugs out. I plan on letting them out of run in the afternoon. I heard they put themselves to bed. I am starting from scratch with a 9 man flock in...

Help! My friend knew I wanted backyard chickens for eggs and to keep yard and garden clean, soooo she gave me a Hen and her 2 month old chick. Someone took six of the chicks and I got8. Now they are 3 months old and clearly Mel Sims. The mom is a brown Mel sims and has a band on her leg and she...