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I bought six pullets from Tractor Supply. They look like RIRs but smaller and have started laying half size eggs at three and a half months. There have been three of these eggs in the last week. I have never seen this before (the occasional tiny egg but not consistently) and they are so very...

The toe started out deformed and has pretty much turned into a pretzel. She is thirteen weeks old and we were about to put her group outside in their own coop but she is walking on the tip of a bone which is still covered in skin but it will split soon. So the vet is going to amputate it...

I know this isn't a coop but my husband put these together for me so that our poultry can't get into our vegetable gardens. They work beautifully so I thought I'd share. The one in front doesn't have the wire on it but the one in the back does although we won't have the full blown wood panel...

My flowers are multiplying like crazy. When you thin your flower beds, what do you do with the extras?

I posted the two sentence version of the diagnosis in the Emergencies thread. This is more of a story about turkeys. A quick disclaimer: My birds do not have the avian flu. Not. Not, not, not. You will read about my prediction that they did but all that means is that I'm not a vet. So, let's...

I just took my turkey to the vet and found that her swollen head was the result of a ruptured air sac in her neck. They poked a needle in her and tried to deflate but it filled up again. The vet said it doesn't matter and we should just keep an eye on her.

I raised three turkeys, one tom and two hens. They are pets. They started mating just before winter. The hens just started laying and our tom became very enthusiastic. Five days or so ago, he collapsed. I thought that he may have had a heart attack. He was stretched out on the ground in...

We raised twelve chicks last year and, for the first time in six years, wound up with a rooster. He was a late bloomer so it took us a while to notice and now we have this gorgeous Red rooster (either New Hampshire or Rhode Island - we had ordered a mix). He was crowing at four in the...

I ordered six New Hampshire Reds and six RIRs. So what is the chick with the stripey back?

We are raising twelve chicks indoors. I went to put them in a larger enclosure today and noticed dried gunk on one of their eyes. It looked almost like wet mash had dried around the eye. I went to clean it a bit and she is able to open the eye but there are a lot of tears so I'm assuming that...

We are raising twelve chicks indoors. I went to put them in a larger enclosure today and noticed dried gunk on one of their eyes. It looked almost like wet mash had dried around the eye. I went to clean it a bit and she is able to open the eye but there are a lot of tears so I'm assuming that...

We've been dealing with a raccoon and I know what I have to do but I think Gramma took it on last night because she had plenty of protected space but it got her under a fence in a small space between two logs. Which means she had to have stuck her head down there to go after the raccoon. In...

Most of my hens look chubby to me. They are semi-free range (mostly free range but I lock them up periodically). Is there such a thing as a fat chicken? Or is it just preparation for winter? Frankly this is the first year I've noticed a seasonal change in appearance.

Our new neighbors are about our age and have had their last two children in their 40's. They moved in about a month ago or so. I knew that they were from a town next to ours so clearly just getting a bigger house in a quieter neighborhood. I saw mom and fourth child, a baby, maybe 14 months...

My araucauna was given to me and is now about four years old. She lay for about two weeks this year and now she seems to be done. Is this normal for her breed and age?

Over two years ago, this hen disappeared. She's a beautiful Aracauna. The neighbors had raised four. Two disappeared and one was killed. Then another neighbor complained about their remaining hen who had become friends with our guinea hen, so they gave their last hen to us. That last hen...

Our three turkeys are coming up on three years and going strong. One issue with bumblefoot but otherwise they are in great health. The eggs are fabulous and our most dominant, Christmas, has fought off more than a few predators over her lifespan. They are our coop watch birds. We were told...

We just watched The Time Travelers Wife. This was DH's comment: "Wow. Eric Bana looks so different here than he does in Star Trek. As a Romulan." He doesn't understand why I can't stop laughing. Can you help me explain this to him?

We have never had a new neighbor here. This couple has three kids and moved in yesterday. We haven't met yet but they're busy and stressed. I was thinking brownies and apple crisp since it's a holiday weekend and she probably doesn't have time to bake. What do you do?

I was out all morning and came home to find that our horrible turkey, Christmas, attacked Thanksgiving who now has a hole in the back of her head a little smaller than the size of a dime. The blood seems to be clotting nicely and there is just a little still oozing from the hole. I got...