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I'm hoping someone out there can advise me on how to treat my chicken, "CoCo". She's less than 2 years old, and about 7 days ago, she stopped laying. I've noticed her appetitie has GREATLY decreased in the past 7-10 days. She's usually always eager for food and dried worms. She "fake" eats...

I've used the fermented feed instructions I copied and pasted into a PDF (attached), which I got from the Chicken-Chick website. I use Scratch 'N Peck organic feed when I ferment the feed. My apologies if this is against the rules.

My flock has found some welcome heat-stress relief with these cold and healthy snacks. You can alter the recipe as per your preferences and fruits/veggies ingredients handy. This recipe (PDF attached) also uses the 'fines' from my S+P organic feed to mix into the treat. Good luck to you and...

Yup. It's hard to see the ones at the 'bottom' of the pecking order getting hassled so much. My girl Maple still likes to 'burrow' under the chests of the bigger girls, and the bigger girls simply do not like that, thus Maple is the easy target. :-(

I found this very helpful, very low cost DIY solution for heating water in my coop, using an empty cookie tin can and a low-watt bulb. It really works! I have a small flock (6), and no electricity in our coop, so I use an outdoor-rated electric cord. Note: This info is from another website -so...

Thank you, Lacy. Your feedback is great - and makes really good sense. I'll probably get her a chicken 'saddle' jacket - so at the very least it protects her back/side feathers and may deter the picking by others. I've tried moving her to the 2nd roost, but she always jumps off that and wants to...

My 1 yr old Americana ("Maple") is lowest in the pecking order of my small flock of 5. I noticed many of her top/back feathers are broken and she looks very scruffy, compared to the others. She is not molting at this time. I checked for mites, lice and even took her to my vet. She was clean...

We have one WTB in our flock, she’s a real sweetie, and we named her “SweetPea”.🥰 She was 7wks old when we got her in late July, so we’re expecting some eggs soon -maybe January? Here she is (on the left), with her flock mate,”Maple”.

Beautiful job!!! Your flock is very lucky, it is clear you've put a lot of thought into this! Love the bright colors, too! :love

Our sweet (Penedesenca) girl, “Helen”. In this pic, she’s approximately 5-6 yrs old.

Ours is quite aggressive, assertive... very dominant of the two new ones we just got. How is the "DNA sexting" done? I can also look it up. Thank you!!

I was able to get a pic of this small ‘bump’ on the back of the legs. I FELT a small hard bump on the back of BOTH legs! Yikes. 😳 Does the spur show up that early - in 8-9 wks of age? (Sorry the 2nd and 3rd pic are a bit on the blurry side!) Anyone else find these on their young cockerels?

Thank you! 🙏 :hmm

Thank you 😟

Ohh, so sorry to hear about that Tonyroo. 😓 I'm hoping and praying that ours does turn out to be a pullet.

Ohhhh boy!!:p

Hi Everyone, We recently purchased an 8-wk old Blue-Laced Red Wyandotte (bird on the right - in the first photo attached). We are not sure of its gender (were told it was a pullet by the Seller)... but the 'stance' and its more aggressive/dominant personality is leading us to think this is a...

Thank you, Cinnamon11! We have *not yet* brought our 2 new pullets home ... possibly before the end of THIS week. That will give us time to piece together some sort of temporary quarantine coop in our large shed (currently jam-packed w/ stuff). We'll be clearing some room in there today. It is...

Thank you, ChickenCanoe! I really appreciate your insight on this! BTW, We have *not yet* brought our 2 new pullets home ... possibly before the end of THIS week. That will give us time to piece together some sort of temporary quarantine coop in our large shed (currently jam-packed w/ stuff)...

Thank you very much! That makes total sense. My current dilemma is that I have no smaller coop (or space/structure to put the new pullets into, and having them in the house is not an option. I think the nighttime temps are too cold lately (approx 40-50 degrees F) to keep them outside, ...and...