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I have a hen who is 10 years old. She was acting normal last week, but several days ago she started laying down a lot. In the past three days, she sleeps all day and doesn’t eat or drink. She will open her eyes a little if you move her, sometimes she opens her eyes and will drink some water if...

I'm trying to figure out if it would be a better (cheaper, easier) option to buy a "chicken safe" that is around $1000-$1400 but comes with everything to assemble it, or to get these materials on my own. The thing is, it's a long term investment and I want to be able to assemble and dissemble it...

The only way to know for sure is to see it happen or isolate. If you have a camera that can do time lapse, that's really useful, and it's what I did to find out whether one of my pullets was laying.

Since my chickens do not have access to fresh grass unless I cut it and bring it in, and since the grass currently abundant will be gone in the summer, I am wondering if there is a way to preserve it for later. How might I dry grass, or perhaps more importantly, would they even like dried grass?

I have some new chicks that are 3 weeks old, they're all half white leghorn. One is half EE and has a pea comb. But it looks pretty big. I had another EE who turned out to be a girl but at 3 weeks her pea comb was much smaller. This one is all white. He also attacked a chick twice his size! Boy?

Thanks for the information, that helps to know.

I think he's around 4 months old. What is a strawberry comb? Is it a mix between other kinds of combs? I found out his coloring is called "blue breasted red"

Feed store said he was bantam ameraucana, and some of the other roosters that came in the same batch as him did look like that, but this one looks less so. Particularly, I don't know what kind of comb this is.

He's better, I think he just needed food.

Yesterday I walked in and there was large, watery and white poops all over the ground. I saw several of my birds release some like that. Must it have been something I fed them? I couldn't imagine them all getting actually sick at once one day like that. I gave them some leftover scrambled eggs...

I was thinking possum or raccoon. Raccoons seem capable of more, though. A possum once attacked one of my chickens, but all it did was tweak her wing feathers and break her wing, then ran away after the chickens made loud noises.

Probably buried somewhere. In my coop, there are these mysterious bones towards the back that look like chicken bones, and they keep disappearing and reappearing over time. My New Hampshire hen has an odd fondness for them, she pecks the ground AROUND them whenever she sees one, "accidentally"...

I've heard you can feed them to a dog.

Yesterday I got a beautiful bantam Easter egger rooster from the feed store. He's hiding from the new chickens and afraid to eat, which is understandable when they're new, especially since he's so small and the others are big. I separated him to give him food and water. He's rather slow moving...

I love it! I think one of my chickens laid one that big last summer, but unfortunately all I saw was the remains of it, it probably broke right away. I just remember seeing about half the shell, and it was huge like that.

Name: Chinchilla Age: 5 months Female Easter egger rooster/ blue Andalusian hen

Never mind the brown leghorn, they don't have white earlobes.

My guess is brown leghorn, but not sure because that pattern is common to several kinds of roosters.

First one definitely a rooster, second one probably a rooster.

Reminds me of another thread where a chicken got some skin torn off also. It grew back, so perhaps doing the same treatment the other person did will work. https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/1141144/yikes-large-wound-on-hen