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Update on Link: After posting in the emergencies forum, I got some great advice and am now thinking that she was having trouble passing an egg. I have dosed her with calcium citrate + d3, and she is eating and drinking normally. She does seem a little sleepy though. If she lays a normal egg, I...

Okay. Miss Link is isolated and in a crate in the house. It is a large dog crate with a wire bottom, so I've thrown down some towels for messes. She has foods, drinks, special foods. A nesting box arrangement with some material put down for comfort. that cats are VERY intrigued but keeping...

Soooo sad and anxious. I'm 99% sure one of my hennies is sick and I don't know what to do. She was fine on Monday, I swear. I even found her in my fenced-off veggie garden, digging around and eating my zucchini plant. Just another day realizing I've been outsmarted by a bird with a brain the...

So all joking aside, does anybody know why hens would want to go under the deck? Is it because it's cooler and there's lots of interesting, yummy bugs? Or is there something else going on? Full context: Last weekend my 1yo red sexlinks found a way to get under the deck. I lured them back out...

UPDATE: I LIED THESE ARE NOT GOODGOOD GIRLS. THEY ARE GETTING UNDER MY DECK. I CANNOT STOP THEM. HELP LOL

It has been about a year since I picked up my first 4 “hens.” Only 2 are left (one was a roo I gave away and one died) but here is a picture of adult Link not approving of the lack of treats. 🤣 Yep, it has been a year and today was the first day I found paw prints on the coop. They’re probably...

Le eggies have gone back to normal and Zelda has been offended by my repeated attempts at checking her booty for anomalies. Still putting some probiotics in food and ACV in the water but feeling generally better. I do think somebody is molting, there are tons of free floating feathers...

I totally forgot about this article, thanks for the reminder! That's where I learned about young pullets and shell-less eggs. It sounds like it could be either stress or because she laid the 2 eggs 11 hours apart from each other. It sounds like that can affect the quality of the egg. Or it's...

I just wish I knew what happened so I could prevent it happening again 😭 For the vent gleet, the first thing I noticed was that she didn't lay yesterday. I noticed her rump was pretty dirty. I took her in to rinse her off and discovered that her rump is missing feathers (under the vent but not...

So. An update after so much inactivity (I'm bad at regular updates and need to be better!) Daine stopped laying in December and died in February. Idk why, I think cat but... But now Zelda has diarrhea and so does one of the eggers. Something had environmental must be going on...but WHAT? This...

So far they seem to be doing ok! The older ones still aren't impressed with his manners and one hen did wind up hiding in the coop from him. It's been raining here so the younger three have officially moved into the main coop, which did cause an egg-laying strike from one hen. But she's over it...

Got another update- Numair (the cockerel) is officially crowing in the morning and attempting to make his way to the top of the flock. So far, Zelda and Link have been keeping him from getting too big for his britches. Whenever he puffs up at them, they stand tall and puff right back. There...

The only supplemental light I've used is on seedlings so I'll have lots of good transplants for the garden. Considering I now need to think about how to keep seedlings safe from hens who think they are nummy, I haven't really put a lot of thought into hen-proofing the garden (yet). But thus far...

Thank you so much!! These are the 3 newest additions- I still have my others, too! My oldest hens are 9 months old-- not sure that's old enough for a molt? But it's definitely a possibility! The others are still 4-5 months old and not old enough for laying or molting, I think. Either way, I'm...

So babygirl (Daine) hasn't laid since breaking her broodiness and now another of my hens isn't laying but everything else is normal. Looks normal. Eating, drinking, foraging...normal. I'm currently attributing it to bad weather/winter but keeping an eye on them. In other news, I have another...

Welp, I'm pretty sure she was/is broody. I took out the fakey ceramic eggs and that has discouraged her from spending the whole day in the nesting box. On the other hand, she is now going to bed....straight into the nesting box. Which causes trouble for the other girls, who lay between 6a-8a...

She DID lay today. She simply refused to leave the nesting box and kept trying to get back into it. I'm hoping that if I restrict access to the nesting box/coop I'll discourage full-blown broodiness. But she growled at me! I didn't even know chickens could growl! And she did! Hopefully I caught...

I'm afraid that's what I'm going to have to do! She spent an hour trying to get into the coop/nesting box after I closed it off and pushed past the Boss Hen as soon as I opened it for the evening sleepytimes. I removed the ceramic eggs, too. Trying to suggest that hey...maybe...no brooding...

Sooo I think I have my first broody hen. I hadn't realized that Daine had been in the nesting box all afternoon and when I went out to find her, she had all the fake eggs and her own egg under her. She...growled? at me? When I took her egg. So I took her out of the nesting box and closed it off...

Updating on Tab's Flock here. The little babies are getting big and fluffy but it's getting cooler at night. For the first 3, I was getting them used to the Great Outdoors while nights were warm, so this will be an interesting transition. I also didn't have 3 six-month old hens when I got the...