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So today we lost two out of four of our new pullets. We had a total of nine chickens, 4 new chickens and 5 older. Just two weeks ago, we decided that the pullets were big enough to start free ranging at 12 weeks - especially since they were getting along great inside the coop with the older...

I have one hen in my flock who is raising three babies she hatched herself. She’s raised them for seven weeks now in a crate inside the chicken coop, and I’ve started letting them out to be with the rest of the flock this week. Outside and roaming everyone gets along, but putting them back in...

I don’t know what it is with our house but all our chicken attacks happen during the day. Today, at around 5 o clock and in the complete daylight, something killed three of our hens and injured another. One hen was missing with only feathers left, the other was down in the woods, and the third...

Yesterday something got our flock during the day. I believe if was a fox or coyote. It took one hen, and the other is slightly injured. The animal seemed to have grabbed her tail, and ripped our all of her tail feathers. In addition, her vent looks prolapsed, and I’ve only attempted to push it...

So I have a real problem. I don’t live in an area with a busy road, but our chickens still won’t stay out of it. The coop is not very close to the road, our run is not big enough to not let them free range, we keep all their incentives to stay near their coop, and they have plenty of cover AWAY...

So tonight, I lost a hen as I was an hour late past dark time to close my coop, and as saddened as I am, I need to make sure I don’t forget again. I’ve been meaning to get an automatic hen door for a while now, and I’m wondering which ones you guys in suggest both in quality, safety and good...

Somethings wrong with my chicks neck, it’s about a month old, and she keeps tucking it under herself like it hurts to hold up. She’s not drinking, and something is definetly wrong. Please help, I don’t know what to do.

I currently only have 4 older hens, but am going to greatly enlarge my flock this summer. I’m thinking of buying 11-15 new chickens, including a barred rock rooster. I’m keeping the babies in a new coop until they are big enough. However my old coop is about to fall down, and I want to introduce...

Hello! I’m looking for a new place to buy another batch of chicks this summer! I usually shop from tractor supply but they have a usual 10 chicken minimum on their website and sell by breeds. I’m looking to kind of make a cart of multiple breeds for a total of ten. If anyone knows of a hatchery...

So I’ve been trying to reintroduce a hen who got hurt and had to be removed from a five hen flock of just sisters. Two of them, the hens at the bottom of the pecking order, have accepted her. But the top two keep bullying her and will keep her in the coop all day so she can’t eat. I’ve put her...

So if you’ve been keeping track with my other forum you know that my chicken recently had surgery to help the wing she had torn off by a predator. The area is looking great now and it has been a little over a week since her surgery and I was hoping to re-introduce her to the flock. Unfortunately...

My hens wing was torn off by what I think was a raccoon or opossum reaching its hands through the coop. They are not free range so that’s the only option. I hadn’t noticed until today, since I didn’t notice any of them acting strangely. However there were some feathers around the coop Sunday so...

Ok so I can’t free range my chickens but they have a fairly large run, lately though I’ve been having some time maintaining it. The sand has been kind of eroding in weird dips and when I add new sand it’s gone in a week and it makes it taller and harder to open the door. The run ground is...

While a usually get one egg a day from each of my 5 hens, I’ve been only getting 3 recently. I thought it was just because it was getting colder, even though their egg Laying wasn’t affected last winter but I’m worried something may be wrong. I found this is their nesting boxes today (see...

Recently the past week one of our ISA brown hens has stopped playing and we have no idea which one and why. They all look the same and All look healthy nothing noticeable nothing around there vents. We usually don’t have a problem with one not laying they each lay an egg a day and rarely miss a...

I know this is not a chicken question but was just wondering. Me and my daughter were looking to get Holland Lop rabbits. From what we have researched we are planning on getting a male and female from the same litter from a breeder. They will be about 7 weeks old. Should I have them separated at...

The main reason we haven’t been free ranging our hens is because we have a family with dogs in our neighborhood (who would definitely eat our chickens) that basically roam the neighborhood as they please, but we just found out that family is moving! :ya So we would love to try to teach our...

In the past month or two, my chickens have been really pecky. They don’t seem really aggressive but they keep pecking my muck boots and legs and it hurts! My largest hen whose the top of the pecking order has also started acting strange when I hold her and almost comes at me like she wants to...

I'm thinking of getting some silkies this summer and have been looking into other coops. I can't keep them with my ISAs because they don't have enough room in their coop for more chickens. I'm looking for a cheap but stable coop because I spent about $1000 on my last coop and I need to save some...

My hens are fine now, but I'm worried that later in the year, it might get to cold for them and they will need extra heating. My coop doesn't have any heat source in it and the coop is too far away from the house to run any electricity out to, I'm also having a problem with managing how much...