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A little background - about a year ago, one of our Rhode Island Reds was acting sick. She would just sit in the yard, wouldn’t really move and she had what looked like a white film over one of eyes. Initially we tried antibiotic injections but after 2 days of that, I took her to a vet. They...

We just got 6 baby chicks yesterday and today, I just noticed the BCM opening its mouth like it’s gasping a bit? I included screenshots of the video since I don’t know how to attach one. It’s otherwise drinking/eating/moving. Is something wrong with it?

I currently have 3 hens in my flock. We have been getting 2-3 eggs a day, all in the nesting box. To preface, our weather has been very up and down. One day it’s 80 and the next it’s cold and raining. Today I found an egg with a very soft shell (you may even say no shell. It was very jiggly)...

My girls seem to like to just sit down in the run, usually by the door or next to the door, where they can see out into the yard. Is this normal behavior??

One of my girls seems to be showing a possible respiratory illness. Making kind of raspy noises, opening her mouth a lot and then coughed up what looked like a bunch of phlegm. She seems to be moving around and eating otherwise but definitely has something going on. She is molting very late and...

We had something get in our coop a couple nights and kill 2 of our 5 girls. I found them the next morning dead in the coop, pretty slaughtered. Our remaining girls took a couple days to start laying again (which I assume is normal) but they’ve just been sitting/laying on the run floor and i...

I posted a little over a week ago about a sick chicken. She was acting off and had something wrong with her eye. I ended up taking her to the vet (who claims to specialize in birds, including chickens) who prescribed her amoxicillin but nothing for her eye. She said she wasnt sure what wad wrong...

One of our girls started acting a little off the last few days. A couple days ago she would just sit by a bush, which wasn't terribly odd, but not something she really does. Yesterday I noticed her sitting by a bush again, just hanging out. Again, not something super weird but usually they are...

Our girls have been in their coop for months now. Their coop is inside a fully enclosed run. Everyone was roosting fine in the coop but just noticed one of the girls was roosting on the top of the coop. I’m not sure if this is the first time she’s done it since I haven’t checked recently, but...

This is our first time with chickens and I got the galvanized food and water bins because they were "cute", but I'm finding they are not practical. The water gets super dirty and the food goes EVERYWHERE. Does anyone have any recommendations that keeps majority of the food off the ground and...

Is it ok to leave feed out all the time? We have the feed bucket hanging from the fence, so it’s off the ground, but we are new to this and wanted to make sure it’s ok to leave it out for them to feed as they want. Also, I follow someone who has chickens and posted additional items to add to...

This is our first time having chickens, so bear with us! We moved our 6 week old chickens to the run/coop on Thursday. We have a large coop with a roost inside and then an fully enclosed run. Every night since we moved them out, they huddle in the corner of the run and won’t go in the coop...

Hi! My husband and I just got 8 chicks and this is our first time raising them. We got them last Thursday, so almost a week ago. They are currently in a pretty large, industrial type storage container with an incubator light on one side (temp being measured) and water/feed on the other side...