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Montgomery County MD area. Is there anyone out there who would like a broody hen for raising chicks? Melly is a great mom, but I can't have anymore chicks - my backyard is full up. Last year she gladly raised 5 chicks that I got from the Tractor Supply store and slipped under her one night...

So, I just put 5 little chicks under my broody hen and she loves them. We put her in a mini-coop late last night and moved the chicks an hour later to make sure she had settled in. That part went great. The chicks all hurried under her and she never even woke up. This morning, they were all...

I know there are huge strings on pros and cons on deworming, but they are really old, so I thought I could start a new one. I just had a necropsy done on a hen as two died in a week and I wanted to know what was going on. She probably died from internal laying as she was completely plugged...

I just lost two chickens to tumors so I'm a little skiddish. We picked up Ethel to inspect her vent and it looked horrible - the feathers were clumped and dirty and lots are missing. We tried giving her a little bath (which she hated), but the vent looks a little better now that it's cleaner...

After years and years of having chickens who lay in their coop and in the nest boxes, I was surprised and a little amused that one of my hens prefers to lay in my house. She's the first hen to actually even come in the house, which she enters through the dog door to the screen porch and then...

Help, I have a nice brooder and today we changed out the paper towels and put sand in. Everyone looked fine. I have them in my study with me and I was just writing a nice blog post about how happy they were and then I looked over and one of the chicks was dead. They are 7 days old, eating...

On Saturday, I lost my three hens in a day time attack when we were out between 9:00 am and noon. Two were intact - dead, but no visible injuries and no feathers every where. One was mostly eaten with feathers in two places in the yard - across the lawn and where we found the body. The yard...

This is a very painful post for me as I love my hens, but Betty, my black austerlorp, is laying no membraned eggs for the past 6 weeks. She sometimes lays one with a membrane, but mostly it's sunny-side up eggs in the nest box. Big mess to clean-up. She gets lots of oyster shells and egg...

My black Austerlorp was my best layer but now she's only laying shelless or membraneless eggs. This has been going on for about 5 weeks. She's a little over a year. At first I thought it was just stress, as the ladies survived a raccoon attack. She lost some feathers, but she was alright and...

I was planning on converting my play house, but came across this Versailles inspired house from Neiman Marcus. It even has a crystal chandelier. Any one interested in getting one with me? Maybe we can get a discount! Oh, just noticed - no place to roost...

My daughter's chickens have some sort of pest - they are visible in their vents - white bugs with a black spot in the middle. Any ideas? Most of her hens (20 or so) have them.

I came out this morning to find one dead chicken and two missing. I thought I had solved the predator problem with my automatic door, it works perfectly. But something got them this morning after they came out. I heard them at 7:00 getting up and a lot of noise at 7:30, which I figured was...

So, my hens (two black australorps, one Rhode Island red and one buff orphington) are somewhere between 20 and 26 weeks. I'm not sure exactly because I got them from all different people starting mid May and no one seemed to know exactly how old they were. I thought that no one has started...

My husband stepped on our Buff Orphington pullet. She's always underfoot and he didn't see her. Now she is limping around - second day - and has to sit to eat as she loses her balance. She does walk around and roost and I can't see anything obvious. However, she's obviously in pain and she...

Well, it is final - we cannot remember to close the coop door every night. I have read many of the threads on automatic door openers and see that most people love theirs. There seems to be two types - guillotine (Foys, VBS and kit one) and swing - Pullet Shut. I'm leaning towards the pullet...

I have 6 new hens- four pullets (12 weeks or less) and two Bantams who are about a year and a half. I got the Bantans two weeks ago and they layed 5 eggs in a nest box the first week, but nothing since. I introduced the pullets to them about 4 days after I got the bantans but they still layed...

Very exciting day here - I found two eggs, first and second probably or maybe from two chickens. Big problem is that they were on the ground in the hosta garden not in the nice nest boxes. Any help for getting them to lay in the nest boxes? I have four 5/6 month olds. They free range in my...

Hi, I'm new to owning chickens. The 4 hens that we have now came from a farm at my daughter's college. They started with 34 so they weren't really sure of the breeds, because they had so many and such a variety in the beginning. I'm sure that they're probably easy to identify, but we have no...

Sorry if this seems like a "stupid" question. We (of course) are new to chickens and I have been reading about wing clipping. My question is - can they still get to their roost (about 4 feet up) if their wings are clipped? How does that work? I'm not sure that is is necessary as we have huge...