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She is housed in a raised coop, the bedding is sand mixed with wood chips. I try to keep the chips in their nest boxes, but it tends to get mixed in with the sand. I am with you on which foot is most painful, but I'm not entirely sure what to do with the thing I see on that left foot, whether...

Folks - Our buff orp Violet started limping on her left leg a couple days ago. She'll stand on the right leg, maybe with the left touching down some, and then when she walks she clearly hobbles on the left. So, we brought her inside to get a good look, and it looks as though she has a good size...

Folks - One of our Orpingtons, probably our favorite, has been limping for the past few days. I cannot see anything obviously wrong with the leg, I do not see any frostbite or bumblefoot. She hops around a bit, but mostly just sits in the corner of the coop. She's been interested in food, but...

Folks - I've got a collection of about a dozen of those tiny eggs that seem to be called wind or fart eggs. I've been reading, and it seems that some have yolks, but mine (I cracked open a few tonight) do not. What do folks use these for? I had thought about frying up a few to give to our...

I also had a young flock going into this winter season, and they were laying pretty minimally, so I put a light out there. About three weeks later, I went from average 1 egg a day to about 4-5 (with 6 hens). I have a timer which gives them a couple extra hours of light both pre-dawn and...

Folks - I have 4 Orpingtons and 2 Brahmas that I got this spring, and 1 of the brahmas is starting to lay. She's only laying very small eggs, about every other day. I wanted to get her some extra calcium, but figured that switching all of them to layer feed (from the grower feed, I use the TSC...

Folks - This year is my first experience with chickens, and I only wanted hens to get some eggs, educate the kids, enjoy watching them, etc. Unfortunately, amongst the chicks I got from Tractor Supply one turned out to be a meat bird, and a rooster at that. I don't want to even try to have...

Folks - I've looked through the messages here, and realize that to many the question is absurd. But, I'm a first-time chicken owner who got some chicks to raise (for eggs) with my daughter and we ended up with a cornish x. Being new to chickens, we just thought that this one was growing faster...

JJ, this bird ate like there was no tomorrow. She was actually pretty funny, as she liked to eat from the large center opening of the plastic feeder we have - it's the type with openings around the perimeter, and you fill it in the large center hole. We had put an old plastic container upside...

Thanks for the replies. I googled cornish x, and the pictures that came up look exactly like this chicken (my daughter named her Sunshine, this is not going to go over well with her). Is there anything else even close to that appearance, or is it pretty certain that if it matches the pix, it's a...

Folks - This is my first time raising chickens, so like any other first-timer it's kinda hard to know what is normal variation and what is actually abnormal. One of the 7 chickens we are raising from chicks purchased at TSC is a lot bigger than the others. We've been wondering if it was just...

Folks - My first post, but I've been lurking and learning a huge amount for the past few months. This is a wonderful site. Anyhow - I'm just about finished building the coop for the chicks which have been living in a large cardboard box in my daughter's room. I'm wondering if there needs to be...