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Three weeks ago, we lost a 1 1/2 yr. old hen. My husband noticed one evening she looked a little sickly, but it was dark and she had already settled into the coop for the night so weren't sure. He said she looked like a hen would look if it had the flu. She died the next day before I could do...

We have had a few of our hens get broody in the past even though we do not have any roosters. They usually sit on some eggs (non-fertilized) and we just kick them out of the nesting box a couple of times a day and after a week or so they move on. However, I have a Buff that has been sitting in...

Is one coop that measures 4x4x4 with three roosts and four nesting boxes large enough for 15 hens? They free range all day. We actually are currently using two of these coops, but need one for our chicks.

We have 14 hens and I really don't know which one is at the top of the pecking order. None of them have ever been overly aggressive...just little things here and there. We just love how well our flock gets along. We have no rooster. They free range all day. We received a new hen from a...

We have 8 chicks...4 white wyandottes and 4 red sex links...that are about 4 weeks old. I noticed today that the tail feathers coming in on the wyandottes are red and a little bloody. They are in a 6x2 brooder. Should I try and put Pick No More on the wyandottes? Is it possible they need...

We have 14 hens, 4 are EE's. Two of the EE's had fluffy feathers under their chins (so much so that my kids named one of them "Beard-y"). About a month ago, both of them started losing those feathers. And now they both are missing feathers on their back right before the tail. No rooster...

Our chickens are almost 8 months old (14 of them). I had one that started having runny poo, but no other symptoms. I cleaned her backside up (it was a mess) and put Sav-a-Chick in their water for the last two days...just to give her a boost. My questions is, can we eat their eggs while...

We have 15 hens and 2 roosters that have been in side by side runs since we got them back in June. They are all 6 months old. We built them one larger run yesterday since we are now ready to have them altogether. As expected, the two roosters didn't play well together. One is an EE and the...

We're not sure what this is. I've tried reading around the forum, but thought I'd double check and see if someone can help me out.

We received our first chicks about four weeks ago. We ordered 18 pullets and ended up with one extra. They quickly outgrew their brooder and are now outside in a 4x4 coop with an 8x4 run. We ordered so many with the assumption that they would not all survive (had been told and had read not to...

We woke up last Sunday to find 3 out of our 19 chicks were being pecked on in their brooder. We assumed it was probably because they were all outgrowing the brooder (or bored, or both), so we quickly separated the 3 injured and put the remaining 16 out in the coop with a run so they'd have more...