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I have 1 Ameraucana, 1 Red Star (I think), 1 Whiting True Green, 2 Barred Rocks, and 2 Buff Orpington hens who all turn 23 weeks old tomorrow (Monday, September 11th). Last week, one of the buffs started laying very small eggs, and has laid 3 eggs since her first egg 6 days ago. But all the...

This hen in 20 1/2 weeks old. She hasn't started laying yet. She got pecked square on the beak by one of our roosters a little while ago, but it's healing and growing back nicely & she's been eating and drinking just fine since I noticed it a week or so ago. She's been sitting like this all...

I ordered 3 female buff orpingtons in my most recent batch of chicks in April, but this one is definitely not a buff, right? What breed is this girl?

It's been nearly a month since the bear attack that got our rooster & 2 of our older hens, along with taking a good chunk out of this girl's back. I'm really happy with how it's been healing. I see no inflamed or infected area, and no strange odor. Here's a pic of what her wound currently looks...

I need your help, y'all, and your input on what I should do for one of my girls that was badly clawed at by a bear last night. Last night, we had our first successful bear attack (well, successful for the bear). We thought we'd done enough to deter them (we live in the southern Sierras), as...

My 1yo just put some dried chicken poop in his mouth and ate it!!! What should I do! It was dried onto the egg shell. I'm making scrambled eggs right now. He reached into the trash when my back from turned cooking, and put the whole shell with the poop in his mouth. I know he ingested the poop...

We have 6 RIR hens from McMurray Hatchery. Our free chick from the hatchery is a male Sultan. Not that I have any interest in letting any of their offspring to be hatched, but what would that cross breeding look like? Rather odd, I'd imagine. We planned on keeping the 7 chickens together and...

I posted a couple weeks ago of our new baby chick whose eye seemed to have difficulty opening fully after hatching. Per the recommendations, I gently used a q-tip and some warm water to help loosen the crusty stuff that seemed to be keeping his eye shut. It took probably a week of me doing that...

Our Buff Orpington went broody a little over 2 weeks ago. I bought some chicks for her & introduced them last night, but unfortunately she didn't take to them so we'll be raising them on our own with a brooder plate. Ever since the buff went broody, we've been getting a max of 1 egg/day from our...

Our Buff Orpington has been broody for 2-3 weeks and diligently sitting on 4 fake eggs that whole time. We moved her to a dog kennel in our garage to segregate her from the rest of our flock, and then introduced 7 baby chicks from Meyer Hatchery that were 3-4 day old (we introduced them to her...

Our 7 chicks from Murray McMurray Hatchery just arrived today (72-ish hours old), and our 1yo Buff Orpington has been broody for 2.5 weeks. I planned on introducing all 7 of the chicks to her tonight in her brood box while she sleeps (slipping them in from behind her so she doesn't see me doing...

We just got our baby chicks in the mail this morning from Murray McMurray Hatchery. Six of the seven RIR girls were alive and extremely healthy looking. When I ordered, I said I wanted an extra chick of the hatchery's choosing 'cause I was assuming at least 1 of the chicks I ordered would die at...

We purchased our 10 original hens as one-year-olds this past early April. Due to predators, we now have 5 (1 olive egger, 3 Ameraucanas, & 1 Buff Orpington). We went out of town for a long weekend recently, meaning eggs accumulated in the nesting boxes, and now our Buff is very broody. She's...

We have 4 Ameraucanas (& 1 olive egger, but she goes along with whatever the Ameraucanas do) & am considering getting 5 Rhode Island Red chicks in the next month or two. Anyone have experience with how these two breeds get along? Ideally, I wanted to have one of my hens go broody & then to have...

I found my first dead hen this morning when I went to go check for eggs and give some treats (broccoli stalks). She was one of our olive eggers & honestly was the dumbest bird we have. (Both our olive eggers are. We only have 2 of them. We also have 4 Ameraucanas and 4 Buff Orpingtons). We...

We received our 10 hens exactly one month ago on May 10th from a local woman and her family who raise chickens and other livestock for local sale. We have 4 Buff Orpingtons, 4 Ameraucanas, and 2 olive eggers. She purchased the chickens from an online hatchery, raised them, and sold them to us at...

I currently have 10 hens. They have their coop and run on one side of our old/vacant horse paddock that's on our 1 acre property. The paddock is probably 20'x30'; the previous owners built it for their single horse. We are currently in the process of adding raised beds to the whole paddock and...

I'm very new to chicken keeping, and just learned you can ferment your feed before serving it to the chickens as a way of not only increasing the fermented foods in their diet but also for overall health reasons too. I'm currently using Grubbly layer feed for my 1-yr-old hens, which to my...

Hi there. My family and I are new backyard chicken keeping in Tehachapi, California. We have a small flock of 4 Buff Oringtons, 4 Ameraucanas, and 2 olive eggers. We purchased them a month ago from a local friend of a friend; they're all year-old's, so they were laying eggs upon us receiving...