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I have read a good number of posts on here regarding foxes and other predators, but I could still use some advice. We have have had free-ranging chickens here in upstate NY for about 10 years. We have lost some to predators over time, but nothing like this. I love that we have a variety of...

Not sure how long this poor chick was out there. It is still alive, but obviously not ready to hatch out. I tried putting it back close to mom, but she pecked at it and tried to push it away. I don't have an incubator. Is there anything I can do to save it?

I can't get a better pic, and haven't tried to pick him up yet, I was just wondering if anyone has an idea as to what these bumps on one side of his comb might be. They look like small shiny beetles, but he won't let me get close enough. All my chickens are free range, none of the others have...

We have 13 adult goats in 2 large barn/pen areas and just recently 12 kids added. Everything was fine until today when the oldest doe started a head-butting battle with one of the others. Both have bloody heads. This has been going on for about an hour. Should I stop them? Or wait for them to...

I got an assortment of colored egg layers from Hoover Hatchery. Since you all seem to know what you're doing on here, I thought this might be a good test of your skills. Frankly I will be just as happy to be surprised when they grow up, but thought you might have fun guessing. There is a real...

One of my young hens, about 5MO, was limping when I first noticed something was wrong on January 3. The pics attached are from that day. She was fine with me picking her up and inspecting, but I could not feel anything wrong with her feet or legs. I was out of town that following weekend and...

3 of my hens have been sitting on eggs in 2 nest boxes. I don't know how the 2 biggest ones fit in one box together, but they do. :) Since they were not the best sitters in the beginning, I stole some of the eggs and took them to a friend with an incubator. 4 of the incubated eggs hatched...

I have quite a mix of breeds, some brown egg layers, and some blue. I had this happen several years ago before the blue eggers, and I thought maybe it was a 2-shelled egg, although that wasn't what it looked like to me. Even then it was a dark brown egg from one of my Marans inside a light brown...

I have just read through some of these posts about trying to keep Mama and chicks separated for about a week from the others in the coop. My problem is that the 3 broody hens are sitting in one of those metal, 10-stall nesting boxes that the other hens are still using for laying. The other issue...

I have one Buff Orpington roo who is almost a year old, and 17 hens. I added him to the older flock with 9 other young hens sometime over the summer. Everyone seemed to get along just fine. There were previously 3 roos that we had to sell because they were too aggressive with each other and the...

I have a chicken coop about 500 feet from the house with 9 free-ranging adult hens in it (at night only). Just this summer I raised 10 new chicks, born in March. I had them inside during the cold months, then outside in a protected area near the house, then finally let them start free-ranging...

As you can see in the photos, she has what looks like a tumor on her front. I thought at first that she had lost her feathers there because my rooster was too rough with her. That is definitely why she is missing feathers on the back of her neck. But now that this has been about 2 months, and it...

I apologize for this rambling post, but I have been waiting to ask for help thinking things would work out, and they haven't. We had a perfect small flock—13 hens and one rooster that only picked on us humans, not his girls. Then my poor Roo was attacked by something (probably the eagle across...

My poor rooster was attacked by some unknown critter 2 or 3 months ago. He was in bad shape and we didn't think he would survive. He couldn't hold his head up for about a month after that. He seemed to be recovering, started crowing again, was having his way with the ladies and all the normal...

I have a hen who has been trying to hatch some eggs for the past 2 weeks—problem is, she is in one of the 2 popular nest boxes, and she sometimes switches locations from one box to another. The box she's been using for over a week is now full of eggs, probably some from today when I was at work...

For weeks we have been trying to figure out why our egg production has gone from about 8 a day, down to 3 or 4, from our hens. Just today I found the cache—37 eggs laid in the stack of hay bales where they made themselves a lovely new nest. Considering I have no idea how long they have been...

Let me start by saying it's a small flock: one rooster and 9 hens. They free range during the day, which is sort of how the problem started. A Jack Russell from across the street got into the open coop while this hen was on the nest box. She was bloody on the back of her neck, one wing is...

There is a very adorable JRT across the road from us, who has come across this highway (55 mph) to visit my dogs before, but just today, he decided to attack one of my hens. He got into the coop while she was on the nest box (as near as I can tell) and dragged her about 50 feet away. There are...

We added three 1YO hens to our existing flock of 6 hens and 1 roo. I stupidly bought them on Craig's List, and I am thinking they are older than a year because of how few eggs they lay. Also, one of them came to us already missing feathers, supposedly from "a rough rooster". So there's my...

Curious to know what others have done when introducing new chicks to an existing flock? We currently have 9 hens and 1 roo, all just about 1YO. We recently acquired 5 chicks, supposedly all female. They are just starting to get their big-girl feathers, so they are not quite ready for the...