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I have read about the uses for it, sounds great but is it actually called DE or does it stand for something? Thanks

First one hen, now more hens losing the feathers on their backs, much like the rooster was getting "friendly" too often. It has gotten so bad that I found another home for my rooster. He has been gone over a month and no feathers are growing back? Do you think they are molting? I have been...

I started my flock this spring and finally have hens laying. I would like to add more chicks in the spring but I am not sure which brown egg layers lay the best and the ones that lay good size eggs. I currently have BOs, Barred Rock, RIR, Austrolorps, Wyndottes,and Brahmas. I do have a RIR...

I told 4 hens that just started laying a few weeks previous to a friend and they have not layed an egg for over a month, then, sold 8 more hens to another friend and I just heard those havent laid yet either. Im starting to look like a bad friend here, whats going on? Could it be stress or...

My hens have been laying for about 6-8 weeks now, and out of 16 eggs, about 12 are pretty small. When should I expect that they will get bigger? Its hard to charge someone for a dozen eggs when they seem so small to me...

Weird.... Ideas? They are all the same:/

I have 32 laying hens, all between 19-21 weeks. I got my first egg last saturday, about 4pm. I have gotten several eggs this week, never anything in the morning, always after 2pm or so. I even got one the other night about 7pm. I always thought that chickens layed at like 6 am or something...

12 hens/roos are 19 weeks, rest are 17 weeks and we still have no eggs. I know everyone tells me not til after 20 weeks, but my friends bought 25 of my day olds and they are both getting eggs for two weeks already and I am not. I am sure that it is because of the Roos keeping them "busy"...

A friend of a friend would like to buy about 10 -15 of my excess hens. We ordered about 75 straight run chickens which are now about 17 weeks old and should be laying soon. The plan was to use dual purpose birds since this was my first time and see what I wanted to keep as far as hens and put...

I am a newbie, and I will be the first to say that I should have listened to the advise I got from chicken owners and all the books I read on chickens. I just got so excited over all the different breeds and how each breed has different traits, ect. Now I have behavior problems and DH is not...

I would like to buy some cornish x for meat birds and would like to try hatching my own, but dont they get so fat they can hardly walk long before they are old enough to lay an egg? Thanks

I am a first timer and I have dual purpose birds such as RIR, Barred Rock and Buff Orphs, both hens and roosters, however, I would like to raise meat birds. People keep telling me that Cornish Cross cant even walk after 12 weeks because they are so fat. Are they impossible to hatch/breed? I...

I was just wondering what other people use for litter in their coop. I started out using white shavings which I think is pine and then switched to cedar shavings a few weeks ago. I think I like the white shavings better, I only switched to cedar because my father in law told me that cedar seems...

We just started raising chickens around easter. I contacted the local 4H group, and it is too late to sign up for the fair with the group, she will have to show open class. Anyone got any advise on what breed we should show, and what do you need to get started such as a cage, ect. We have 14...

Ok, now I swear I am not crazy. My free rare chick started out yellow with some dark areas on the back with the softest fuzz, nothing like any of my other 9 breeds. It has fur on the feet, like my brahmas, but yesterday my DH pointed out that the rare chick has 7, yes 7 toes on each foot. It...

I have 70 chicks, 12 are 11 weeks old and 58 are 9 weeks old and they are eating 75 lbs of starter/grower per week . I have been mixing my feed 2 to 1 with chick scratch, and feeding them table scraps such as salad greens, left over veggies and such. They are going outside eating bugs and...

I am a new chicken mommy with 54 new babies. They are approximately 3 1/2 weeks old. Last night, my husband noticed that one of the "free rare chicks" that came with our order has a crooked beak. The top part is on the far right and the bottom on the far left. What do I do, poor chick...