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Hello Chicken Friends, I have three two year old hens (1RIR, 1SLWyandotte & 1EE) but I really need more eggs so I'd like to get two more chicks but I am afraid to try to integrate them into the group I already have. The EE had to spend 3 weeks inside once after an injury (from an interrupted...

Our year-old SL Wyandotte has been broody for 4 or 5 weeks now. We have no roosters so there won't be any chicks. It is a real problem because she chases the other hens out of the nest boxes and breaks their eggs if they lay them elsewhere nearby. I don't want to do any psychological damage or...

Hello everyone: Need some advice. We have three one year old hens (a RR, a SL Wyandotte and an EE). We want to get two more chickens in order to get the number of eggs we actually use. I'd like to get two new chicks now but my only concern is integrating them into the flock and coop with the...

Hello Chicken friends: I have three chickens. All about 10 months old. One is a RR, one an EE and one a SL Wyandotte. The Wyandotte has become very broody. At least I think that's the right term. She lays an egg and then sits on it for days on end. We have no roosters so there is no way that...

Hello: This morning, I went to let the girls out of the coop and while they were drinking, I noticed that my 9-month old SL Wyandotte's butt was completely bald. It is pretty much a strip of baldness straight down from her vent. The other very downy like feathers in the area look loose and...

Hello Chicken Friends. I need some advice if possible. Two of my three hens (8 month old RIR and SL Wyandotte) have stopped going into their run and coop at sundown for no discernible reason. When I go out to close up the coop our other hen (8 month old EE) is roosting in the coop as usual...

Hello my chicken friends. I need some quick advice When I went out to clean the yard and coop today, I noticed that my 7 month old EE has a quarter-sized wound on her back between her wings. See photo below. It was a little bloody and looks like one of the other hens (we don't have any...

Hello Chicken Friends: My 7-month old SL Wyandotte has been having watery yellowish poop for a few days. She otherwise seems totally fine. I haven't changed their food or anything. Should I worry? She hasn't started laying yet and I thought maybe she was getting ready to start doing that? Her...

Hello there: We are in the lower hills of Oakland, Caifornia with a very temperate climate and lots of rain (well usually but not this year). We just closed our chickens into a fenced-in run area because they were eating all my veggies and pooping all over our patio. Now they have their own...

So my 6 month old RIR started laying earlier this month, which is awesome. But she lays her eggs at like 10:30 or 11am and in the weirdest places, which stinks. First of all I sometimes can't find them or she lays them in our neighbor's yards. Second, she lays them at a time when no one is home...

The first egg from our hen Babette! Thanks Babs. So exciting!

For anyone who has read about Lightball before, you know that on October 16, 2011 she was attacked by a raccoon. The raccoon ripped a big gash in her back and took all the skin and some muscle off her leg. Her back healed pretty quickly but we were worried that she would lose her leg. We had...

Hello my chicken friends: I have a RIR, an EE and a SL Wyandotte. All are 5 months old now. The problem is that they have taken to flying over our 8 foot high fence into my neighbor's yard. And my neighbor (who is being very very nice about this) has a big dog, who given half the chance would...

Hello Fellow Chickeners: This is my first winter with chickens and I'm nervous about them being out in the cold. We live in the San Francisco Bay Area and it is usually pretty temperate but the weather forecast has the nighttime lows between 31 and 21 degrees for the next week. I know the...

Ok so here's the highlights for those that haven't read my previous posts. We interrupted a raccoon trying to eat all 4 of our then 14-week old chickens. The raccoon got one and injured two others. One of the injured ones is doing fine and is pretty much all better. The other was injured pretty...

As you might have read on earlier posts, we had a raccoon raid our coop one night a few weeks ago. We lost one bird and two others were injured. One was very seriously injured and one moderately so. Another bird escaped unharmed. They are all about 19 weeks old. We've been nursing the injured...

It is going down to 43 degrees here tonight. I have two hens in the coop right now. I'm thinking they'll be ok, right? What is too cold for them? They are both 18 weeks old. One is a Rhode Island Red and the other is a SL Wyandotte. Our EE is still at the vet recovering from leg surgery she...

Hello BYC Community: As some of you may have read, we have a chicken that we've been working hard to save after a raccoon attack. Her leg was hurt very badly and we've been working hard - along with our vet - to save her and save her leg. Well, it's not looking that good today and we should...

Our EE, Lightball, is going for her third surgery today to repair her leg. Still have hope she will keep it. Please send healing vibes, prayers, thoughts or whatever you think will help. THANKS!

Some of you may have read about our coop getting raided by a raccoon two weeks ago when my husband (poor thing) forgot to close the coop up one night. We lost one chicken and two were very badly injured. Our SL Wyandotte had a deep gash diagonally across her whole side from underneath her wing...