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My Welsummer hen seems to have a cold.. She started to sound like a goose and when I pick her up and listen to her breathing it sounds as if she is congested ...She looks fine acts fine eats and drinks...no discharges ...eyes look fine to...could she have a cold? If so what should I do? Thanks...

My 9 week old chickens are losing their feathers on their lower back above their tails. We lost our very first chicken yesterday. Came home and found one of my Ameraucana's dead in the coop, the other chickens in the flock we pecking at it. Then to find out we have 4 and possibly a few more...

Our flock will be 9 weeks tomorrow and we think this one may not be one of the girls. This one developed much too quickly and is leaner. The tail feathers are pointing upward as well. Is she really a he?

Our coop finally came, it was delivered very late Thursday evenng. Spent today gathering the girls in their new home. Next project is the run.

The coop finally got here and we put the 18 girls in the coop today..All seemed ok but tonight we checked on them and the 2 silver wyandottes had the feathers in the same spot on their backsjust above the tails pecked away and the spots were raw with some blood.. the spots are about the size of...

Hi ..I hear of peaple talking about pellet bedding...What is pellet bedding?and can it be used in the coop for grown chickens?Where could I get this and is it compostable for the garden?Seams like it would be alot cleaner than straw or shavings.Thanks.

This is Lillie my Barred Rock who is very spoiled and gets most if not all of my attention. She loves to be picked up and does not like to be put down. Here are some of her friends who are not as spoiled and are not named yet either.

This might sound crazy but we would like to use very fine dried sand that you can buy in bags at the Home depot on the floor of our coop...The coop has a wooden floor with glassboard floor covering the wood... It seems to me that it would be very easy to sift out the poo with a kitty litter...

Hi...We were supposed to have gotten 18 female chicks from the hatchery and most have a little bump on their leg above where the thumb comes out....Could we have gotten so many Roo's or is this normal for female chicks...They are going on 4 weeks old. Thanks for your help.

My chicks have a new game they play...One finds a piece shavings with poop on it and they run around with it and another picks it out of the beek and runs the other way while the others chase behind trying to grab it and run...I think I have some simpletens for chickens...They will fit in around...

There is a bulge under the neck of one of my Welsummers...Its like a sack of fluid....Is this a syst or is this the gizzard ?None of my other chicks have this...They are 3 weeks old but the welsummers are bigger than the rest...They are on chick starter ,grower and she eats and drinks and acts...

I never herd of sand before on the coop floors until now....Do you peeps mean that instead of shavings or straw?I could see how sand would be so much easier to keep clean..How does sand work in colder climates?If so..I would put straw in the nesting boxes and sand on the floor....Can anyone post...

My 18 chicks who are almost three weeks old are ready to fly out of their brooder, they either run and jump or they hop off of their perch . I thought chicks couldn't fly. Had to put chicken wire on the top of the brooder to keep them in. The on little devil hops onto the top of the feeder...

18 New chicks: 2 Barred Rocks, 1 Buff Orpington, 3 Rhode Island Reds, 1 Jersey Giant, 2 Welsummers, 3 Ameriucanas, 3 Silver Laced Wyandotte, 1 Golden Laced Wyandotte, came from Meyer Hatchery a little over a week ago and are doing fine. This is our first flock and boy are they drama queens.