desperate for help

I'm desperate and need any/all advice. I need to give a little back story and I'll include pictures when I can. At the end of April 2023, we purchased 6 chicks from a local feed store. 2 Starlight Green Eggers ( SGE - 2 weeks old), 2 Black Australorps (BA - 1 week old), 1 Barred Rock (BR - 1...

I have 2 eggs at day 22. One is moving inside, the other has stopped at day 20. Should I put a hole in the top, carefully, to help? I thought I heard one peep last night but not positive. It doesn't look like it has internally pipped. Last time I waited too long and a couple died. Temp and...

I came home from work to find a few chicks peaking out from under one of my hens. I look down and i see two chicks had been dropped out of the nesting box hatched & struggling. i picked them up got all of the ants off of them and immediately took them inside & placed them under a heat lap. I...

I have a 14 month old roo that I’ve hatched and owned from egg to now. He has 8 hens and free range all day in my large back garden, only locked in the coop at night. I’m at my wits end with his behaviour. He is constantly attacking me and I’m scarred all over both legs and a few on my hands...

Hello, new here...and kind of desperate to figure out what is going on with my girls. I have 5 hens of laying age (about 8 months) that were all laying steadily. We then added 2 younger hens who aren't yet laying. We segregated them and slowly incorporated the new girls into the flock but at...

Hi! I am desperate. I'm losing a hen every day or two. I have a trail cam coming tomorrow (Wednesday evening) and then I'm out of town for four days! I am down to three hens with multiple predators, I think. I found one hen with just her head missing. Raccoon. The others have left a few...

Hi I would like to swap my buff orpington rooster for another hen of any kind. I'm also interested in ducks. I live in Decatur, Ga. thanks, Cody

So, i finally located the nest up high in my neighbors tree plus due to no dogs or threats..i knew a hawk got it due Witnessing one in middle of act in the beginning of fall last year and i looked out window two days ago, due to hens making loud disturbing noise, and bam a cooper hawk on ny...