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  1. chickenGrant

    Pecking each other has gotten worse.

    Hi there. I have three chickens, one golden laced Wyandotte one silver laced Wyandotte and one cinnamon queen. The cinnamon queen seems to be the lead hen and likes to pick on the others. But the golden laced Wyandotte is in second and she picks on the silver laced Wyandotte. Both the...
  2. SpaghettiJo

    PLEASE HELP!! I can't tell what's wrong

    Hi, one of my chickens (3yr old red sex link), Bertha, is not doing well at all. She has laid maybe two eggs in the past year, but I was not too worried about that because her health hasn't suffered until now & she's always been one of my strongest (& one of the two alphas of our small flock of...
  3. Thesweetbirdsflock

    Nesting boxes

    we have too identical nesting boxes, but all 3 chickens will ONLY use what’s come to be called the “preferred nesting box”. So, every morning/afternoon there’s a bunch of squabbling over that one box because they all have to lay at the same time. Just wondering if there is any way to get them to...
  4. R

    Poorly chick, 6 weeks

    I’ve got a poorly chick who’s roughly 6 weeks now. To start with he became quite lazy but was still eating and drinking just not as much, he had blood in his poo also so after advice I treated him for coocidosis, he still has 2 days left of the course but is worse than ever today. Always...
  5. C

    Mating Issue. Moral Dilema

    In my relatively small flock we have two roosters who are brothers and have been hand raised (with their sister who they circled but a hawk got her one day) and are essentially stuck at the hip. While they will go separate ways for a small time they often follow each other and are almost never...
  6. C

    Egg bound hen

    Hi Everyone, I am new to this forum and actually joined because one of my 3 chickies became egg bound and I'm needing some after care advice. I apologize in advance for the very long post. It's the first time I've tried to treat an egg bound chicken. You could see the empty egg shell (which...
  7. Clubber1234

    3 NEW HENS

    Hi everyone, So Yesterday i picked up 1 light sussex hen and 2 rhode rock hens. Today i let them out to run free range and the light sussex hen has disappeared. where is she?????????????
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