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I discovered we had elderberries (I think that is what these are) growing wild in our woods when I was gifted four chickens back in 2019. Looked like it was safe for chickens and humans to eat, so I let the chickens gorge themselves. Only one really liked them. Then I hatched chicks in 2020 and...

**I do want to say, the hen passed away two days ago, this isn't currently urgent. I'd just like some answers, and a necropsy isn't possible right now. I also know that without one, there is no definite answer with 100% certainty, but I'd like to hear any ideas any of you reading this may have...

I went outside to plant tomatoes. What I found was an episode of Nature happening right in the front yard! I only planted two tomatoes that evening before dusk because of this box turtle. In case anyone else wants to watch... here's one of the eggs being laid out of a total of seven or eight...

I've been having migraines a lot lately and didn't get to winterize the coop like I want to. Last night, it got in the 30s. I have the bachelor pad so during nice weather like yesterday (60's), I can leave the rabbit wire exposed and he can see out of the door and get some extra air, but in the...

Just wondering if my flock can have boiled shrimp tails. I buy dried shrimp for my flock, but didn't know if the process of freeze-drying made it easier to digest or something? Didn't want it to go to waste if it could be high calcium and high protein treats! 🙂

A cat from a feral cat population down the road decided to move her kittens into our attic. Not the first time it's happened, this cat usually brings them back to the neighbors who feed the population. I noticed they started screaming insistently on Monday. We had a storm that day, so I thought...

I'm not asking because I'm lazy - just wondered do I have to clean between every board, get in every crack, scrub the walls with soap, etc? Because I'm finding it impossible to spray down the chickens and clean / spray down the coop on the same day. By the time I finish with the chickens...

This is Aurora. I think she's 5 years old, I'll have to ask my friend who gave her to me to know exactly. I knew she was old when I got her two years ago and I've already lost two hens over the past couple of years from what I assume is related to old age. I can feel her breast bone, but she is...

My best guess is that my boy Patriot got his spur stuck in something, probably rabbit wire. (He was trying to fight his brother through the rabbit wire. Didn't think they could injure themselves through wire that small, but leave it to my boy to figure out a way...) The bleeding seems to have...

Found this large poo this morning with what looks like angel hair pasta in it: If this is roundworms... do I have to treat the whole flock? And what is best to treat with? And I assume I can't eat the eggs for a while?

They want to lay down and sleep all day. All fifteen seem to lack energy, but two want to sleep all day and are noticeably weak. No one will eat, they will sort of peck at the food and walk away. I tried treats (bug bonanza) and a few pecked at it but most weren't interested. One poor chick has...

I hatched these guys out for the Easter hatch-along (first hatched Good Friday and the last hatched about a week and a half later), and I want to verify how many roosters and hens are here. Here are photos of each one: #1: Gazette. She is a mix of my Golden Lace Wyandotte, and my white sex...

I mixed Wild Thang, whom I thought was a Rhode Island Red, with our Rhode Island Red, Aurora, and Silver Laced Wyandotte, Tiny. One should have given me Rhode Island Reds, the other should have given me red sex links. But I have two chicks out of 15 that I believe are red roosters with rose...

My mom was watching my chickens free range while I was cleaning one of the cages, and Helga found a snake. My mom says it was about six inches or so long, and one of the chickens was running with it dangling out of her beak while all the other chickens were chasing her down trying to take it...

I've been reading different threads and different articles on mites and some opinions seem to conflict, so I was hoping to get some clarification on a few things. What I'm dealing with: I had one chicken, Banshee, that had an injury and was bullied when I tried to reintroduce her to the flock...

I hatched out what was supposed to be Rhode Island Reds and a mix of RIR + Silver Laced Wyandotte. (And a happy accident of sex link + Golden Laced Wyandotte that I did not plan for. :celebrate) Another rooster, a sex link (A RIR + SLW from last year) found that I forgot to latch the gate, and...

I'm not sure which hen is laying the egg with blood inside. I suspected my Rhode Island Red, but it looks like one of my sex links may also being laying eggs with blood inside. I found a great article here (https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/common-egg-quality-problems.65923/) about egg...

Until I joined this site, I didn't realize chicken wire wasn't good. Yesterday, a raccoon proved this to be true as it tore up weeks worth of work. Thankfully, it couldn't get into the house so all the chickens are safe, but we are going to redo the run and get rid of the chicken wire since it...

I had 30+ of these awful things on one of my roosters at once. Can't knock them all off, they come back too fast. Now there is a whole cloud of them terrorizing my flock, and my chickens are all hiding in the henhouse trying to get away from them. What are these things and how can I get rid of...

I have two chickens who look like they've been plucked. This one is Avi: I saw no mites. About four months ago, I had too many roosters, and they damaged the hens feathers. I sold three, and now there is only one with the hens. I thought the feathers would grow back, but the damage kept...