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I have 3 nesting boxes and 7 hens, this morning one hen just having a melt down (very vocal), I went to investigate and 2 boxes had 2 hens and the 3rd had one and she was so upset she was being mean to the 7th hen that was just a by-stander. Funny times. :cool:

Easter egger laid another huge egg, she has reproductive problems and I only get a egg from her about every 2 weeks but it's always huge. The other eggs are from Barred Rocks and green from a easter egger.

I posted some time ago how my dad helped in getting the Trumpeters re-introduced in the wild by raising them and sending them to many states around the country. Well Mom passed 2 weeks ago and she loved working with the swans as much as dad did taking care of the little ones during the day while...

I have been giving my easter egger (poor girl) a tablet for the past 7 days and today she laid another really big egg. She seemed to handle it better this time but I think she is still having some discharge, not sure if it is lash egg stuff or what, the other girls are finding something and...

My 10 month old easter egger has had laying issues since the 1st egg. The 1st 2 were double yolkier and then laid a few shell less eggs, and from there it went to real big eggs. I always knew when she was about to lay or did lay because she would walk funny. She has not laid for a couple months...

My wife called me up from the basement a bit ago because a young eagle sitting in a tree watching the chickens in the run. The girls did hide under the coop and then the eagle flew away. :clap

I went down to give the girls some water this morning and my door was not open but it is -13F. My door is home made with solar panel, solar controller, timer and actuator with an RV battery for power. This is the coldest day since using it and it's 1st failure. My ? is does your door work in...

I trap a few coyotes every year to keep them from killing fawns in the spring and now that I have chickens it's nice to thin them out some. This was a pair caught in cable restraints behind my house last night.

There has been 3 chicken coop fires in our area the past couple weeks with one taking a barn also.

Watching the wheel last night and there was a woman from Texas (I think) on that said she had a pot belly pig , a couple turkeys and 13 chickens, wondering if she is a BYC member. She must love her pig and birds to mention them on a game show.:clap

I give my hens (7) a single serving size yogurt container of scratch in the late afternoon since I here corn creates heat in them for these long cold winter nights. Now I have 2 that must be going through a soft molt since the 2 lost feathers on the back of there neck and tail feathers ( i see...

Feeding the girls this afternoon I noticed either fox or fisher cat tracks in the mud. If I get some pictures and its fox I will set a trap for it, I already have snares out for coyote but try avoid catching fox until they stalk my girls :). We cant trap fisher here, and I have only seen tracks...

I gave my 7 girls a head of cabbage around 9.30 this morning and its almost 3pm now and looks like only the stem left. It was smaller than a volleyball but bigger than a softball but did not expect them to eat the whole thing in a few hours.

One of my bared rocks has been loosing feathers, I see she lost some tail feathers and a bunch on the back of her neck. She is just over 8 months old. I do see new feathers coming in on the back of her neck. I noticed her comb is a little pale compared to her flock mates, is that normal when a...

I have 2 easter eggers and 5 bared rocks that are about 7 months old, about 2 months ago I culled my cockerel. Lately I have noticed the largest bared rock acting different when I give them some scratch before nightfall, she does not start eating right away and seems to keep her head up watching...

This girl has gone through so much and now laying eggs that are really big for her size. When she 1st started to lay it was double yolks, then the eggs went soft shell, then she was just about killed by the cockerel. It took about 6 to 7 weeks after the cockerel just about pecked her to death to...

Has anyone tried the walnut husk/ pumpkin tincture for de-wormer for there chickens?

So my 26 week old easter egger pullet has been laying shell less eggs which I am starting to think is from stress. She was pretty sick last week. She has always been low in pecking order and basically a loner. My flock is an easter egger cockerel, 2 easter egger pullets and 5 barred rock...

I have an Easter egger pullet looking sick this morning but was fine last night, she 25 weeks old. She is slow to move, tried giving her some scrambled eggs this morning and she ate a couple bites. I think she is the pullet that gave me a couple shell less eggs last week and yesterday she laid a...

These pullets were hatched the 3rd week in April and I was wondering if they will molt this year or not? Right now I am getting 4 to 5 eggs a day from 7 pullets and have read egg production will drop off in the molt.