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Looks like a simple fracture. She keeps it close to her body but it can be moved and it is not easy to see what is wrong with it. She has gone from not moving at all to hopping on the one good leg.

I have a barred rock with what I think is a broken leg. My wife wanted me to put her out of her misery a couple weeks ago when she was not moving at all and I insisted on making sure she was near the water and put food on the floor of the coop near her everyday. Now she hops on one 'foot' and...

I had a broody hen that was laying on un-fertilized eggs. I had to coerce her off of the eggs every day and she ran around the run squawking then settled back in the nest. It went on for about a month then stopped. It was one of my largest hens a big buff orpington. No one attacked her...

The type of light isn't important. They just need light. Make sure that they have 12-16 hrs of light per day (including daylight) I have a light on for about 4 hrs a day. I am in New England, and this is what I do every winter. -Mike

I took 6 Amber Links from someone who had a lot of bantam chickens. They were picking on the bantams. I noticed today that one of the Amber Links were pecking another between her wings on her back. After watching for a few minutes, I noticed that she didn't have any feathers there and she was...

Quote: I agree Cindy. My light is on for about 4 hours. Commercial farms keep the lights on all the time. I have some pretty happy hens, but they will stop laying altogether if there is no light. -Mike

This is my third year with hens. I have had lights out all along. As far as egg laying, the type of chicken is important. I had Cochins the first year. Great pets. Not good layers. If you don't use artificial light expect a drop off in egg production. Some breeds are not good layers. See...

How many chickens do you have? How many nest boxes? Some of mine have been laying in the pine shavings on the floor, but I know that right now I have too many chickens for the number of nest boxes I have. 3 boxes and 17 chickens. I will fix this over the weekend.

We moved them toward the end of August. We also introduced the younger hens at this time. It took a week or two for them to all start roosting together and establish a pecking order. Most of that seems to have been worked out now.

I moved my chickens a couple months ago. When they were in the old house, my 5 older hens were laying about 1 per day each. After I moved them, one started to molt and another got broody. I am now down to 2 eggs per day. I have a light out there. We change their shavings about once a month...