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  1. rollachickens

    Hey, new member.

    Hello everyone. My husband and I bought our first baby chickens yesterday. Each are one to seven days old. One is a Rhode Island red, one is a Buffed Oprington, one is a Barred Rock, and the other is a Black Australorp. The heat bulb we are using is a 125 watt. We read that leaving this bulb in...
  2. K

    Question about keeping chickens in the front yard.

    hi guys, I really want chickens, but have no viable place in my back yard to put the coop. This leaves me the front yard. My friend says if I put the chickens in the front yard, the traffic from the road and the noise from the neighbors will be to much for them and they will be to stressed to...
  3. nine9d

    What vitamins and electrolytes to give new chicks?

    Hi all, I am looking to be as prepared as I can for when I receive my new chicks in April. Many things can happen as we know, shipping stress, ill chicks, pasty butt, etc... I have read a lot of threads on these products below and would like to get some more input on the specifics. Nutri-Drench...
  4. BuddyADucks

    Chicken starving herself

    We have had a run of bad luck lately. A fox has been killing off my flock. He killed my rooster and three hens two weeks ago but didn't make off with them. He came back yesterday, when I thought he'd moved on, to kill one of my geese and take off with a hen and a duck. Now I have one chicken...
  5. Minichick123

    Bereaved Serama Chicken Needs Companion

    Hello! I am new to posting, though I've used this page for advice for a couple of years now. Here's my situation: Before I was divorced, I lived in the country. I had a mixed breed flock of 21 laying hens, 1 roo, 2 Serama hens, and 5 ducks. In the winter, my Seramas came indoors because one...
  6. H

    picking/pecking other chickens

    I have three Rhode Island Reds. They have just recently reached their maturing age. One is laying out of the three. I noticed yesterday that I have my "middle" pecking tail feathers out my last (in pecking order). My producer has nothing to do with it. I understand it's more than likely related...
  7. B

    2 year old flock rejecting hen

    Greetings, I've been coming here a long time looking at threads, but couldn't find much specific to my issue. I have a flock of 7 hens and 1 rooster. Most of the girls are around the same size, except for three of them. The Rhode Island Red is the smallest, I have a black hen that's the second...
  8. Stillmeadowacre

    Rooster Injuries

    Hi! We've raised chickens for many years, but this is our first year with a rooster. He is a silver-laced wyandott, and a very good guardian. He is usually gentle with the hens and pretty docile for a rooster, which is why we decided to keep him (we were supposed to get all females in our...
  9. S

    Hens Stopped Egg Laying

    Hello Everyone! So we are new to Hen ownership. Last January we got two baby chicks from a friend who ended up with too many than she was allowed so we took two off her hands. Live in residential area so only a few hens allowed. My husband built a great coop but they have free reign of a large...
  10. Catijoe Farm

    Easter Egger not herself

    Morning all! Hoping you can help. I have 11 chickens and up until two weeks ago, they were split into two coops (side by side). We built a bigger coop and run and put them all in together. Hannah Brown, my Easter Egger started molting (or so I thought) but now I'm thinking it may be stress...
  11. khybentz

    New hen not eating or drinking

    I apologize a head of time for the long post.. I just recently got a new silkie hen, my first 'outsider'. I've had my exsisting flock since chicks..I just lost one of my two silkies so I found this silkie so my lone silkie would have a companion. Anyways, the new hen is in quarantine currently...
  12. T

    HELP! chicken have trouble pooping

    hi guys im fairly new to byc!! i have got two new white rock bantam hens recently. going to find out age soon they are at least over 3 years old. they do have scaly leg mite but im treating it (there in quarentine dont worry:). the main concern is that one of them is straining almost every...
  13. J

    Moving coops, varying ages, starting to lay

    This is my first year with chickens. I free range everyone during the day and secure doors on the coop after they have come in for the night. Two hens are aprox 18 wks, the rest of the flock is aprox 14 wks. Rookie mistake- the older ones have shown definite signs of laying for 2wks (very red...
  14. emmylu62

    Hens stopped laying when moved... 4 weeks ago!

    Hi All, looking for some advice... I moved my birds outside into a chicken tractor with poultry net pen to help protect the area from predators. There are 9 hens that are a year old, 4 sassy araucanas who are 4 months old and 3 Peking ducks. There are a few issues... 1) I was getting 9...
  15. SweetSesame

    Drop in Egg Production due to Rooster loss?

    I have recently re-homed the rooster of my 7 hen flock. He had been an all around miserable jerk to both my family and the hens. Offenses include attacking my mother and little sister on sight, relentlessly chasing hens to mount them, and stripping the backs and heads of almost all of the girls...
  16. S

    I can't figure out what's wrong!

    So for a couple of days my 16 week old sussex chicks have been acting strange and stressed. Symptoms include: >wheezing/sneezing(very wet) >shaking head >diarrhea (sometimes the food doesnt even look digested) >drooping wings >sleeping balled up together >at night they are very loud as if...
  17. asnod

    Molting, Mites, or stress (silkie)

    Hi! I have 2 silkies and both are seeming a little bit 'off'. Our white silkie, Queen Volta, has been broody for about 2 weeks now. I've been trying to move her off the nest throughout the day to ensure she eats and drinks.The other chickens seem to pick on her when she is out. She is not...
  18. JosieMae

    Possible gapeworm or maybe nothing? HELP!

    Hi All! My five girls are in an outside coop and the run is filled with sand. I noticed a lot of them sneezing sometimes, but they don't have any other signs of respiratory anything. I have a young Polish who, for the past months or so, has sometimes breathed through her mouth, sometimes not...
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