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My 3 month old Welsummer, who is one of 3 new chicks that I added to our existing flock of 2 two-year old hens, just turned up not doing well. I've been away for a week, but the babysitter just noticed symptoms yesterday morning. She found this hen on her back. But when she righted her, she ran...

Thanks for this suggestion. Question- do your birds dig into those rocks when on the outside of the run? Our intention is to secure the run for early morning and evening time before they go in the coop, but during the day we want to let them free range in our yard, where they will have access to...

Coons just got two of our 'baby girls' - our Brahma and one of our Polish Bantams. :-( They accessed our run from the top, where we just had bird netting, which they opened up easily. We're going to redesign our run and make it as secure as possible- including replacing the bird netting with...

My now 1 year old Light Brahma has a rather erratic egg production. We are in California. Last year when she first started laying she would lay one a day, beginning early in the morning for the first day and then lay an hour or two later the next, continuing for 6 days straight. She'd then take...

Not sure if I need to worry. My 5 month old light brahma who free ranges and has access to leyena was poised alone in the garden around 11:30am- the time she laid yesterday. She was doing a funny movement in her upper region. It went on for several minutes and I didn't know if she was trying to...

Thanks everyone for your help!

I'm a newbie to the whole urban chicken thing. We started with a Sicilian Buttercup and Light Brahma. Both have reached laying age and the Buttercup was the first to start squatting and lay. Her first egg was soft and dropped from her roosting bar. Three days later she laid a perfectly shaped...

I have a Buttercup hen that's about 8 weeks old and I lover her!! She's just got little "horns" sticking up right now, and has had them for several weeks. I'm just curious about when her comb might come in fully. Can anyone tell me?

We've had two Polish Bantams from 3 days old. They just turned 4 weeks on Monday. We give them lots of attention, have picked them up daily, and still are getting nothing back from them except fear. They run from us when we try to pick them up, peep and kick like crazy when we do, they refuse to...

I'm a newbie, but have fallen in love w/my Sicilian Buttercup and my Light Brahma. Both are about 6 weeks old and I've been giving them field trips outside this past week as temps have gotten nice. Outside they've not yet tried to roll in dirt or take a bath. They are still living in a brooder...