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hey, y’all! Brand new chicken Mama here. My husband and I bought a new house in South Carolina and inherited chickens with the purchase of the house. For the first few weeks, we were getting 1-3 eggs per day from four hens. We decided to expand our flock and add four new chickens. We waited...

I have an Isa Brown hen who to me is the sweetest. She will always come to me and want me to pet her. Then, when it comes to the Rhode Island Reds, she will peck at them making their lives miserable. I have an ad in craigslist to rid of the Rhode Islanders in trade. However, the problem still...

hello all, My girls are going through their first molt- it is mine too since they are my first chickens so I am quite the newbie! I have 2 auracanas (okay that is what I was told they were but but after reading up I am guessing they are EEs or some kind of mix). The auracanas are really the...

My existing flock were raised in an incubator so none of them have gone broody. So when my neighbor asked if I wanted her hen to raise chicks for me I jumped at the idea. I want imprinted chicks who will go broody themselves. So today I picked up my 6 week old chicks and put them in a...

I had two hens that I raised from chicks. To be honest, they were a little spoiled - neither of them really knew they were hens, they were part of the family. Sadly, one of them died last year at the age of 2. I know how socialble chickens are, so we didn't want one lonelt hen. We bought 2 hens...

Hi! I just recently acquired a Leghorn from a friend of mine. I have an existing flock of 2 ISA Browns (5 months) and an oversize Polish bantam and an undersized white unknown rooster. I've kept the Leghorn and my flock separate for 4 days now, but they have access to each other and are only...

Once again, I look to Backyard Chickens for help. My family noticed one of our two and a half month old silkies not moving in the run, while the others were running and scratching around. He brought him/her inside in a plastic tote. I rubbed homemade salve all over the legs, because it appeared...

Hello all, I am new to this site and fairly new to chicken owning in general so bear with me please :). I introduced a new pullet (very very sweet black Australorp) to my current Pullets roughly 7 days ago. I followed the rules of quarantine first, then kept my new pullet in a cage in view of...

My second in command has violent tendencies. When I started my flock I had 4 cute little pullets, one was abducted by aliens, one fell prey to a possum and that left my last two... Mary and Rhoda. Mary and Rhoda get a long great, they appear to share everything equally and are stuck to each...

I live in London and have had 4 hens for just over a year. They share a 7 meter square pen but also range freely when I am around to keep an eye out for foxes and strange cats. They went through a bout of feather pecking when I had to keep them penned for 2 months during avian flu restrictions...

So I have one of my cockerels (13 weeks old) in time out for being a real d-bag - feather pulling and harassment. He's on day 2, and honestly, the flock has been so peaceful. He's in a bachelor pad all by himself. I've blocked his line of sight to the other birds as best as I can, but I'm sure...

I currently have 3 four day old chicks in the house. All are supposed to be females. They came in the mail yesterday and were doing great. One of the chicks (an easter egger) has started to bully the other two. I have had to separate her from the other two girls. I know pecking is common, but...

I'm stressed & need some advice please o_O My Flock: 3 hens, raised together since the day I got them, all laying, none molting, 16 months old Recently, I noticed Parmesan (my 3rd place hen) getting picked on in the mornings by Marsala (my 1st place hen). This was going on for a few days...

Hi Very new to chickens but I rehomed 8 ex batts on Saturday. I'm keen to encourage feather growth and obviously strengthen their overall health. They don't seem keen to eat anything green or their own eggs. We don't eat eggs so there is plenty for them. . Ive already lost one as she had a...

Hello, I've a brand new little flock of 3 POL chickens who have only been together since Sunday in our back garden setup. One of the ladies (Rita) has taken to chasing and pecking my other two girls, particularly the smallest one (Penny), which had been in the same run as her when I bought her...

I'm a newbie to BYC and to raising chickens in general, so any and all advice is welcome. A little background (or a lot): We inherited a full grown easter egger from a family member so we're picking up where they left off. Our hen previously had a sister but she passed away recently. Not...

Hi everyone, So I've just gotten a new hen (she's a bit young) (Her name is Paulina) and I want her to explore the yard and eat and scavenge and do chicken stuff you know? I figured she would fit right in but NONE of the hens seem to like her and keep bullying her so much that she goes and...

Hello! I am a new hen mother to two beautiful 1 month old baby chicks. However, I seem to have a crisis. One of my chicks seems to have either been injured by the other or have mites. The back of its neck is featherless. I have applied neosporin antibiotic cream but it seems to only be getting...