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No idea why. I found her laying near the nest boxes, but not in them. Just flopped down. Doesn't appear to be anything too bad with her. Some mess around her bung, eyes shut. Being this is only our 2nd year, and first fatality, I'm kind of in shock. She was only 2.

We put our 4 girls out a week ago (now about 10 weeks old). Their plywood ramp drops down through the coop floor, at slightly less than a 45degree angle. It has 'rungs' on it every 4 or 5", and the total length is about 2'. The ramp swings up at night to keep them safe in the coop. In the...

I'm building an A frame coop/run, and am planning on putting hardware cloth on the sides, and some larger opening, but stronger metal wire fencing on the bottom - to prevent any diggers from entering. Since I'm putting wheels on one end, that ends' base of the run maybe an inch or so off the...

Total newbies! We're hopefully heading to Farm and Fleet to pic up some chicks tonight. We want to end up with 3 hens, but my wife thinks we should get 4 chicks, thinking we'll loose one along the way while the chicks grow up. Are F&F chicks generally healthy? We'll follow all the great care...

Novice here... no chickens yet, maybe 3 in spring. We've got a set of stairs coming down outside from our second floor, and under them, we've put our AC unit (whole house -- not window). We use it maybe 30-40 days in the summer here in the mid west. I'm wondering if this same area under the...