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Hello! I have an 8 week old Speckled sussex from The Chick Hatchery in Owosso, MI who has a bent toe. Tried splinting it with popsicle stick pieces and vetwrap-came right off :( Any and all advice on what I might do to help her? I have vitamin drops in her water. Thanks!

I bought a used shed to convert to a coop like the one pictured recently, 10 x 16 with a porch. I plan to build a screened off 3 ft x 10 entrance area for storage & supplies, that will leave me with 10 x 12ish floor space for hens. The ceiling is high, 8 ft, and two rotating runs will be 24 x 24...

I live within Village limits and cannot keep this almost 7 week old little guy. From Tractor Supply on 4/14/21 No health issues. Has not crowed yet but makes a squeaky attempt. I can bring him and meet anyone who can give him a good home within 2 hours of Grand Rapids, Michigan.

I have a 4 y.o. buff Orpington who has accepted 5 bantam chicks. She was broody on nest/3 unfertilized eggs for 3 days and we swapped the eggs for 5 chicks 2 nights ago. Should I remove mama hen from the nest for a short break to walk, eat, poo? She hasnt left it in almost 5 days. Water & chick...

Hello. I have been all over online looking for any umbrella organization that provides training, registers or certifies Therapy Animals including chickens. So far I have spent an entire day on Pet Partners .org website reading, watching videos, and getting my hopes up that finally I had found an...

Hello! I live within village limits and only 6 hens are allowed. I have a backyard flock of 5 hens & want to add 1 adult hen. How should I go about doing this? Advice?? I have 2 coops. The main coop- The Chick Inn, and a small secondary coop my hubs built from a shipping crate-used to integrate...

I am located in lower mid-Michigan, couple miles off 96, half an hour from Grand Rapids, 50 minutes from Lansing. I have a 1 year old Plymouth Blue Rock hen I got as a chick from Townline hatchery in 2019. Her name is Edna. She is a big beautiful pet hen who lays big brown eggs almost daily. She...

When I let my 6 hens out this morning, one remained on the perch, Ethel. Yesterday she ran around fine. She is the lowest on the pecking order, and has had an issue with shaking her head and walking backwards for several months. She eats drinks and is in good health. She will not stand on her...

I have a 7 month old EE girl who is doing EXACTLY what the hen in the video does- walking backward repeatedly with her head down. (My video would not load). Shes last in the pecking order, gets pecked often, and keeps to herself quite a bit. I've checked her over, no bugs, ears look fine. I've...

Hi everyone! I got 4 new chicks yesterday, brooding them indoors with a heat lamp. Last night the power went out, so I put my winter coat on and put the girls on my chest with the coat over them loosely. They snuggled in and slept til the power came back on about an hour later. It was kinda...

Hi everyone :) My 1 y.o. Buff Orpington hen has been broody every 8-10 days since this spring. Over and over and over:barnie I've made a broody breaker with a dog kennel, raised up on blocks so her belly is exposed, and she has spent SO much time in it this summer-I hate it for her when all she...

Hello everyone, We live in a small town in Michigan that does allow a maximum of 6 hens, but does not allow slaughter within village limits. The area around us is pretty agricultural though. We got our 4 hens 1 year ago, and I need to have a plan for emergency situations, in case I sadly need to...

This week my 1 y.o. Buff Orpington started biting me-see pictures. First bite was as I was walking out of the run, she ran up behind me and bit my leg-drew blood. I picked her up and held her down on my lap to show her whos boss. She has been occasionally picking feathers of the other three hens...

Hello Everyone. I have an 11 month old Buff Orpington named Tiny-tiniest of our flock of four BO hens. Nine days ago she started having diarrhea, and same day other chickens pulled out her messy rear end fluff before I noticed what was happening. She eats grass and her regular feed-layer crumble...

HELP! If you would take a look at my pics and offer advice about what to do with my very soggy run, I would VERY much appreciate it. I know lots of West Michiganders have this issue right now-fast spring thaw and rain. But I wasnt prepared for this sight today... I'm limited where I can have my...

Hi everyone! so my smallest chicken, Tiny, a 26 week old Buff Orpington, started laying last week. She has been at the bottom of the pecking order, very standoffish, when I give treats she hangs back or gets crowded out. It has always been this way with her. (I watch and make sure she gets her...

The smallest girl, Tiny, laid the first egg today! Medium size, brown. :wee What an exciting moment to push aside the nest box curtain and see that egg! I knew one of them was up to something when I heard The Egg Song from inside the house! Question?- Its alright if I switch to layer feed now...

Hello everyone!:) Just thought I's share about adding heating options to our coop, even though I had decided I wasnt going to have heat. My husband got 'me' a Cozy Coop flat panel heater for a christmas gift. Then temps where we live in mid MI went down to double digit below 0 temps at night...

It's been below zero here at night single digits during the day and I've thought about bringing my girls in the house just quarantined in the mud room during the day mostly so I can sit and play with them lol but I wonder if it would be too much of a shock to their system coming in the heated...

Hello!! I got my sexed chicks from Tractor Supply in July 2017. The girls are 20 weeks old now, and I'm wondering why their combs are so different? Two girls have red, more developed combs, and two have more pale, small combs. I've already been advised here on BYC that one girl is probably Buff...