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We have 3 hens that will be 4 years old in the spring. They are the OGs, and there has been peace and harmony in the flock for years. The top hen is fair and isn’t a bully, except if the hen on the bottom of the pecking order is injured (she hurt her leg jumping off the water bucket one summer...

I took the dog out first thing this morning, and there was a chicken trying desperately to get into our run with our chickens. It’s not ours and no one around us has chickens! 😳 The moment it saw me, it came running and let me just pick it up. He/she is currently quarantined in our garage, but...

I posted yesterday about my 3y/o Barred Rock presenting with distended abdomen, squishy crop, and some labored breathing yesterday. She spent the night inside, and I’ve been very closely monitoring her. I have some different observations, after having the time to really observe her. No water or...

I have a 3 y/o Barred Rock hen that is in obvious discomfort, and there’s something really wrong. For the past month, I noticed she has lost a lot of vent/bottom feathers, the skin is slightly red, but not too bad. Up until yesterday she was acting completely normal, so I just sort of wrote it...

Hi all! I've got a 2 year old hen who injured her leg this morning. My husband saw her jump off the water bucket and immediately begin flapping/flopping around, unable to walk. I brought her in and after laying for a bit on her side with her one leg curled up, she got up and began walking...

I found Franny, one of our Buff Orpingtons, who was about 1.5 years old, passed away today laying just under the hanging bucket feeder. She was laying down as they do normally when they're resting, with her legs tucked under her, and her neck outstretched. There didn't seem to be anything wrong...

The grates in the bottom of the dog cage are too far apart and I didn't have enough hardware cloth to cover the bottom like I had planned. I got creative and cut apart a flexible plastic hamper we had (those $5 Walmart ones), and lined the bottom with that. Will that still let enough air flow...

It's me, again. 🤦‍♀️ I had our BR hen in a tub soaking, to clean her vent feathers. (Just dewormed, so hopefully that situation will be better.) I happened to feel her abdomen and it felt larger, softer, and squishier than I thought it should. I wish I would have felt her in the past, but I...

Our barred rock has had dirty vent feathers for a while now, and I happened to see this in her poop today. It's thin, white, not super long, and moved quickly in a whiplike back and forth motion. What should I treat her with? A couple have had mild dirty vent feathers but not to the degree she...

One of our 6 month old Buff Orpingtons is going broody, I guess? I thought it seemed kind of early, but she's been laying eggs for about a month and a half now. Today when I went out to collect eggs, she was still in the nesting box past the time she usually lays and she fluffed out all of her...

Two of our 4 pullets (between 5 & 6 months old) have loose, sometimes very watery stools. One is consistently laying an egg a day, and the other is just getting started laying so is still very sporadic. Both are acting completely fine, 100% normal...eating, drinking, dust bathing, socializing...

We went away for a few days and came back last Thursday. When we got back, I noticed one of our girls had a bit of swelling to her third eyelid. (at least, I believe that's what that is called...you'll see what I mean in the picture.) No blood, no discharge, acting fine. I let it be, and by the...

Hi all! 👋 We just got our first egg today!! So exciting! Our kids were thrilled! We have 4 pullets, all are around 16 weeks...3 BOs, and a Barred Rock. I just bought a new bag of Grower/Finisher feed last week. Can I continue to feed this? Or do I need to switch to layer feed now that one is...

Hi everyone! So, first off, I learned a really hard lesson in biosecurity. Half of our chicks we raised this spring turned out to be boys. This is our first flock, and I didnt want to do chicks again so soon, so we replaced the boys with older pullets. Last Sunday, we picked up an 8-ish week...

We were told this is a pullet, who is 3 months old. We just picked her up today. She is soooooo much smaller than the rest of our flock which is the same age. Her feet are smaller, everything is smaller! We rehomed two cockerels to this location a while back and they are also smaller than the...

After finding a home for our roo, we are looking to replace him with another pullet. (We can have 5 hens where we live.) A farm we've dealt with before, and that I feel comfortable with, has Gold Laced Wyandotte pullets of similar age to our flock. We have 3 Buff Orpingtons, and a Barred Rock. I...

We have a 3 month old BO roo, who tricked us into thinking he was a she, for MUCH longer than the other 2 boys who presented pretty early on that they were boys. In the end, it was his cockerel saddle feathers coming in that gave him away. He's still young but I've only heard him crow twice now...

This must have just happened today, as we didn't notice it yesterday. The end of one of our 10 week old pullets, Harriet's, beak is cracked. Not sure how she could have done that, possibly on the hardwire cloth? (I've seen them try to catch bugs on the other side of the cloth.) Is there anything...

My friend was given a BO a while back because the previous owner thought it was a roo, and couldn't keep it. This guy/girl is now about 14 weeks old, and my friend is questioning if its actually a boy now. It developed a comb and wattles earlier on, which definitely supports theory of boy...

One of the girls I was confident about being a girl...is a boy, so now I'm questioning them all! 😂 Opinions on here on this one were pullet a while ago...still a pullet?