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Yesterday I was in my shop making a new door for my chicken coop. my chickens were out free ranging when I heard my rooster making all kinds of noise. I really didn't think too much about it because he is very noisy. I stuck my head outside the shop door and saw a huge red tailed hawk flying...

This is a new one for me. My hens are 2 years old and I also have a 1 year old rooster. Egg production went down over the winter as expected. It started to pick back up after we changed the clocks and the days got longer. as expected. Yesterday I did a thorough coop cleaning and put down fresh...

We lost our favorite hen over the weekend. She had been sick for a couple of weeks but seemed to be getting better. Well Friday we noticed she seemed to be getting sicker so we seperated her anf hoped for the best. Saturday morning we checked on her and knew she didn't have long. by the...

We got a new rooster about 7 weeks ago. He is about 12 weeks old now and just as tall but not as filled out as our one year old hens. we have him in the run with the hens but in a seperate enclosure. They can interact with each other but they can't get to him. They get along fine as long as he...

Our sick hen seems to be doing better. Looks like she had sour crop. Her energy level still seems to be a little low but she is eating again. I was a little worried that she wouldn't be acepted back into the group but that too seems to be okay. She hasn't laid an egg in over a week, Is that...

Saturday when we let the girls out to free range we noticed one of them broke away from the flock and was just sitting by herself under the picnick table. Then as the day went on we noticed she was very disoriented and was what looked lke sleeping on her feet. She was still drinking but had no...

This is Fred. We adopted Fred after a friend ended up with 3 cockerels from a straight run of 12 chicks. We decided to let him free range a little bit this weekend. for a big bad rooster he is afraid of everything. he met our 4 hens through a fence for the first time today. they didn't know what...

I just noticed one of my has broken the tip of her upper beak off. She doesn't seem to be in any pain Android there isn't any bleeding. Do I need to be worried about this? Thanks.

A friend of mine got 12 straight run chicks and turns out 3 of them ended up being cockerels. So i took one of them from her. I have him quarantined away from my four hens. He is about 8 to 10 weeks old and my hens are just over a year old. My question is once I have introduced him to the hens...

Ok I can start my tractor (which is about 15 feet away from the run) and they all come running over to see whats up. I can weedwack all around their run and the follow me around the whole time. But if I bring a rake into the run they FREAK OUT! You might think I let a coyote loose in the run. I...

I went out to collect eggs yesterday morning and found my first "fart" egg. Just started laughing.

Our girls heard there was going to be a hurricane so they asked if they could have thier old room back until it passes.

We posted our first egg pics a 10 days ago. well here is our first dozen. We already have had 16 eggs but we ate the first 4. This is our first complete dozen. We have 4 pullets but only 2 are laying so far. 16 eggs from 2 pullets in 10 days? Can't wait until they all start laying.

I got my first egg yesterday morning, my second egg yesterday afternoon, and my third egg today. Anyone for egg sandwiches???

Well the first egg rolled out of the nest box and broke. but this is our official first egg. I was at the coop and noticed one of the girls was missing. I looked in the coop and saw her nesting. A few seconds later I heard a thud. i looked in and there it was. And this is the girl who did it...

Good news: We got our fist egg yesterday. Bad news: It must have rolled out of the nest box because I found it on the coop floor broken. But i have fixed that problem and hopefully no more will be rolling out. But at least the egg laying has begun and with any luck we will be eating egg...

Last weekend i threw together a simple shade structure for the girls so they could get some relief from the sun. I don't think they understand the concept.

We have fishercats, hawks, and probably racoons and other preditors here in northestern CT. I live in a pretty rural area. But last night when i got home from work a little after midnight I saw something I have never seen before. I took the dogs out as I always do. I just happened to turn around...

I have noticed that my girls have been in the nest boxes. I have been checking them daily and when I opened them yesterday one of them sitting in the box. I have also noticed some droppings in the boxes too. They are about 18 weeks old now, there combs and waddles are getting bright red. Is the...