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Searching for ways to repel rat snakes from entering chicken house to eat eggs. I came across the "snake not crossing the rough rope" thing. I am skeptical but was wondering if a rough coco mat laid outside the pop door might discourage snakes from slithering across that surface to enter the...

I have a 10 month old laying buff orpington hen whose brother was rehomed yesterday. Brother had been isolated from head rooster and flock for a few weeks in a large pen within the chicken yard where this hen would often hang out around his pen keeping him company. I rarely put them together...

I have a 9 month old buff orpington rooster, Harper, son of existing head rooster. Harper has evidently reached puberty because the head roo doesn't want him around,chasing and pecking him. Harper is a gentle soul, lets me handle him without any aggression. His dad is a most attentive...

Buff Orpington rooster now 8 months old. This must be puberty for him because he and his Roo Daddy no longer get along. Harper has a sweet disposition , good with the girls even though he has not been allowed to have his own, not aggressive and lets me handle him to treat a broken nail and...

8 month old rooster began standing on one leg 2 days ago. He is in a large yard and house with an older rooster and 5 hens. He does get chased at times by the older rooster and I thought he had an injury from the other rooster. I captured him, saw blood and dirt on one toe, soaked foot in...

I have a 3 month old cockeral who is jumping up about 2 feet onto my 6 foot chain link fence surrounding the yard and then proceeding to climb up a few feet. I clipped wings so no flying out but I have never seen a chicken climb a fence. Any suggestions? I will have to get up pretty early to...

I had a magical summer with my 10 year old granddaughter. She was gathering eggs with me in June when she discovered a nest with fine downy feathers strewn around. That began our summer of observing broody hen and then the hatching of 6 chickies. We were together hours each day watching...

I have been treating a hen for weeks for bumblefoot using all the methods listed here. I was not making any progress and started using black drawing salve twice a day and then wrapping with gauze pad and then vetwrap. Her feet are remarkably better after 6 days. Two questions: How long can I...

5 week old chick incubated and raised by hen, 4 siblings, dirt run outside and have been out since 1 week of age, gets along with the other "bigs" without problem, on starter feed and some chick medicated feed. This chick is smaller than the others, has started an odd gimpy gate, has one middle...

Has anyone used hydrocolloid bandages for bumblefoot? As RN I used to do extensive wound care, and my hen's bumblefoot wound made me think of using Tegaderm for moist wound healing. The waterproof dressing holds the exudate in the wound thereby promoting the body's natural healing mechanisms...

Maggots in vent of 2 year old black sex link. Hard molt in Feb/Mar and has not laid since then. Checked her last month and could not feel any internal eggs. 3 days ago found smelly liquid poop and now realize it is hers. Yesterday and today slow moving and not readily coming out of coup. Had...

Have rooster and 4 hens with 3 hens just turning 2 years old and 1 being 11 months old. Have only been getting 3 eggs a day, and finally figured out the non laying hen is the 2 YO sex link. The middle of this past winter she began roosting in one of the 3 nest boxes at night.....always the...

Have a 1-1/2 year old hen part BO and part?? She has always looked frazzled, has brittle feathers, bare spots, lays thin shelled eggs for several months, and has been eating her own eggs for a few months. I have been doing all the suggested BYC things to break her of egg eating. Today I was...

One surviving 9 week old chick (I think a pullet) wants to eat the big hens' laying pellets even though I provide "feeding stations" of grower crumbles for the chick in the house and in the yard. The "Bigs" like to eat the grower crumbles that they can get to but there is enough for the baby...

Small flock with one roo, 3 adult hens and one baby....8 week old pullet, I think. One adult hen about 18 months old has always been somewhat unkept looking, seemingly brittle feathers, spots of missing feathers, bare bottom. She lays regularly but has had thin shelled eggs, and for the last...

I have been offered a 50 lb bag of rolled barley for my chickens. A friend bought it by mistake for his pigeons and they won't eat it. How do you present/offer it to the chickens? Is it a "hot" food like corn? Thanks for your feedback on rolled barley.

I observed today a hen and rooster behavior during dust bathing that I had not seen before. My roo went to each of his 3 girls while they were on their stomachs in the dirt, stood very close to them, put his head down like he was going to kiss them on the cheek and just held that position for...

I have searched egg eating and would like to try hanging partial curtain in front of nesting boxes and also putting fake eggs in the nest. I have 3 hens, 3 nesting boxes, one hen a new momma hen that just started laying again 3 days ago. My question...if I place fake eggs in the nesting boxes...

I have a 6' chain link fence with elec.lines outside fence 6" from bottom and 6" from top of fence. My 3-1/2 week old chickie is now running with the "bigs" and doing well. I have been turning off elec during the day and then on at night when chix are locked in chix house. When is it safe to...

Mom a black sex link and dad a BO. Any guesses at 18 days old? I had not seen this pom pom tail before...but then again pretty new to all of this. Thanks, Leslie (accidentally erased original photo in trying to edit. added this which is repeat of below. think I have photos down now....sorry)