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My daughter brought me one of our plymouths and is very concerned about her leg. There's a spot that is black that didn't used to be black? They're just now laying eggs and maturing fully and I didn't know if it was a normal change and can't find anything online? The chicken is acting normal...

We just finished our external nesting boxes attached to our coop. We had temporary milk crate ones in the coop for 2 weeks until these were built. We bought ceramic brown eggs to help them know where to lay.. and they kept kicking them out of the crates? Last night we had the nesting boxes...

We made our coop last September and knew we would add the nesting boxes later. Well, later has come 🤦🏻‍♀️. I intended us to have already build external nesting boxes that we planned to add - but it's been so rainy and we have been really busy. If I used milk crates for nesting boxes in their...

Curious if anyone can give insight on one of my buff Orpington chicks. They are just over 7 weeks old and one of them has a bigger comb that has red in it. She looks identical to the others in every other way. We bought all sexed chicks from a hatchery and already have one definite rooster in...

My chickens are 7 weeks old and one walked under a roost in time to get cecal poop all over her neck area... do we wash this or leave it? I'm not sure what to do. Her feathers are brown there now and it isn't dry or anything.. help? I've looked all around and can't find an answer 😅

Our chicks are 5 weeks old (as of this past Tuesday). They spent 8-10 hrs outside for a week or so before we moved them outside to their coop 3 days ago. They've been outside in the upper 40s and a lot in 50 degree weather with overcast skies and cold ground/grass. They seem pretty much fully...

We have finished our coop and run and our chickens are moving out there today from the brooder (they've been spending 6-10 hrs in the run the last week or two already). I have a few things I still have questions about and want to focus on, now that we have all of that taken care of. 1. I want...

We are finishing up our coop for our 3 wk chicks. I started to do the roosting bars today following guidelines I'd read online and then started to doubt myself partway through. I would appreciate feedback. We have an 8x4 coop. The front wall is 5ft tall, the back wall is 4ft tall. We have...