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The first broody is a buff orphintion she keeps switching nests. She has already lost 1 set of eggs because of this. I tried to move her out of the main coop to a smaller coop to help control her sitting situation but she freaked ot al night long and ran straight back to the main coop to sit...

So I have a seabright that went broody. I gave her 2 normal size eggs as I don't have a small rooster. At 14-16 days (i didn't date the eggs) the larger of the 2 was nearly half air but still moving. Last night the smaller of the 2 which was a darker shell hatched. I couldn't see movement in the...

Ok, well im thinking foxes I'm not sure, I didn't see it. It was either early morning when I took the kids to school or afternoon when I picked the kids up. I came home this afternoon to a pile of feathers on the driveway that I hadn't noticed earlier, at first because of the location I...

So this is Black Betty, she's a 3-4 yr old black ee. I know she's molting right now as she has a rooster spot on her back that is finally pinning, send I can see pinning between feathers on her abdomen. Normally, she's a very subtle molter with no bare spots, and I can only tell she's molting by...

Sorry I'm not really sure where to post this. We came home from a hike this afternoon (gone for about 6 hours) to find my barred rock dead by our dogs pool. The chickens free range and regularly are in the dogs area or drinking from the pool. Daisy is a blood hound mix about 4 years old on...

So, i'm back down to 24 (soon to be 23) chickens in the coop, with 7 cockerels in the grow out pen. This is after accidental letting chicken math get the best of me early this summer and having over 50 chickens total for a short while. This morning (before prepping to dispatch some of the...

I'm more looking for suggestions for feeds. I've been trying to research, but our fair date had been moved up for next year by almost 3 months so i'm in a little more of a time crunch then I anticipated. Our leader had us use sunglo last year but lamb instead of goat becuase of the higher...

I have a bard rock about 3-4 years old. To try to make a long story short; sometime between predators attacks about 2 months ago, and moving extra cockerels to a grow out pen seperate from the main coop a few weeks later, this hen decided to start sleeping under the coop rather then in it. At...

I mean what is crazy right? But really I know some people mark or tag thier chickens to keep track of age or lineage. I have a page... I have a sheet of paper with every chicken either by name, breed, or color and make or female that has passed through my coop in the past 3 years. Literally...

Back story, hubby forgot to inform me his friend was coming today to pick up 4 aged pullets. So I had to do an afternoon chicken round up with my kids and obviously i must have grabbed this girl wrong at some point. She was one of the younger ones and not necessarily part of the 4 but the where...

I have 2 white leghorns 18 weeks both with red combs finger check was 2 a few days ago one looked tight but with a moist vent the other was dry. One or both are singing thier egg song though i think the 1 is still confused. I'm not getting white eggs from either one (unless they are mixed white...

I only have a question about 1 it's a mixed blue (lavender orpington x ee). I've considered this one a male by comb development early on but when we sorted the cockerels few weeks ago hubby said this one was female. I left him with the boys on account of we aren't ready to process anyone yet and...

Unfortunately I saw it coming yesterday and suspect it was at least partly smoke related. We live near the CARR fire in northern California and I've honestly been surprised I haven't lost more chickens due to the smoke. Yesterday morning this hen about 4 years old was walking around and eating...

Collecting eggs today I got one that most literally had a patch on it. The odd thing is the patch is calcium deposits not layered like most internal egg repairs and is barely even attached to the rest of the shell. The egg its self including the membrane was fine. I didn't take a picture but...

So i had to do some serious leg mite treatments this time last year, it had been an on going issue from before we moved. My 1 year old hens that we got after moving and everyone younger have no indication of leg mites. This hen in particular wasn't one of the worst effected though she was...

Does anyone in hot climates have chickens that lose particularly just thier neck feathers when it starts getting hot? Its happened to use for years now with one having large bald spots down her neck. Most of the ones that do it now though its just around the waddles. Particularly the EE losing...

So I know it's hot I already refilled all the water containers four all the animals. But I was sitting out side and had 6 chickens (of 41 total) up here in the shade all looking like they where about to pass out from heat exhaustion. I went around and fill every container again dumping and...

Ok long story short mama hatch 4 of 5 #5 hatched the next day in the incubator and went back to mom that night. At about 1 week 3 of 5 babies vanished in a suspected predator attack. 2 days later the 2 babies where found wondering alone, mama found killed about 15ft away. Babies are gathered...

So I have 5 lavender orpington cross chicks that are about 11-12 weeks old I thought all but 1 where male but I'm second guessing 2. I do apologize I'll try to get more pictures but since they just came out of the coop this morning they wouldn't all stand still. Trying to confirm they are...

But we're are getting there. After losing 7 chickens in 3 days we made some nessecary changes to the coop to better secure the flock. Its been a sad few days. First 3 chicks from a broody mama vanished with no trace then this morning 3 chickens missing and the same mama dead killed not far from...