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I found a live opossum all cuddled up in my hens' egg box last night along with mess of broken eggs. One of my four hens might be missing a toe and was terrified to move into the coop, We finally got the opossum out of the box by pulling the bottom out of the egg box. we have noticed a real...

Went out to put the chickens away and one of my new australops was not roosting. I kind of thought it was wierd she was ot around earlier.m i wonder id something got her or if she decided to roost somewhere else. Does this happen to any of you?

Last sunday i sprayed one of thegirls with blu kote on the neck and back. It dries pretty fast. Now i have five eggs over the course of the week with good size smears of blu kote. First i thought theywere stepping on thecan somehow and squirting themselves butthecap is on the can. How canthis...

Last sunday i sprayed one of thegirls with blu kote on the neck and back. It dries pretty fast. Now i have five eggs over the course of the week with good size smears of blu kote. First i thought theywere stepping on thecan somehow and squirting themselves butthecap is on the can. How canthis...

I have a bantam SLW who lays white eggs. How is that when the standard lays brown eggs?

I have a mini coop in an unheated garage with a bantam SLW sitting on five regular size eggs. This is my first time. I am in Wisconsin where the temp dips. Should I add a heater or will she be okay?

I have a bantam that is trying to hatch a golf ball. I would like 3-4 fertized eggs. Cold weather breedto. Be for egg laying. RIR, Orpingtons, barred rock......closer to milwaukee fond du lac the better

One of my four hens is a bantam silver laced wyandotte. Not a great egg layer but for the last week and a half she has not left the egg box. Is this brooding? How do you know, how long does it last and does brooding happen in the winter?

I have three chickens and get two to tree eggs a day. Recently one of the egglayer's eggs are sticky. I know that they produce a bloom, but is this okay?

Happy Thanksgiving all! As I said above, I just added a low voltage deck light to the inside of my coop. Nice light. It adds enough light to the inside since the walls are white. I spliced it into the landscape lighting which already has a timer. Our sunrise is at seven and sunset around...

Those of ou who used plexiglass or similar material for a pop door that slis p and down in a track. What did you use for the grooved track?

Sorry to bother you, but on image uploads and on avatar, it greys out the file name field and wont let me enter a file name. What am I doing wrong?

My chicken door is on the outside of the coop and it slides up and down in a wooden track. I have a rope with pulley to raise and lower from the other side of the coop (the chicken door side is hard to get to in the best of weather.). I live in the mild weather state of Wisconsin and I will bet...

I hate to admit this and it's not funny, but I just sat on one of my three hens. I have had them for around six months and they have been getting more comfortable with me. I decided today to sit down on the steps and feed them some treats. They made a mad dash for me like usual only one of...

Trivial question of the day. I want to add a flap/door to the vent on the back side of the coop on the outside to prepare for the winter. There is one more upper vent that is basically a cold air return on the top of the side wall that you Can barely see on the vright side of the picture. I...

....to splice into to prvide extended hours of light for egglaying and maybe heat?.....The new light(s) would be mounted inside the coop and be on a timer.

I have read that egg making is a 26 hour process. I have also read that various factors affect egg laying such as temperature changes, changes in habitat, stress, etc. So here is my question...imagine it is hour one of 26 and the egg starts down the canal. Things are happy and comingnalong...

If I maually just mix some oyster shell in with my layer feed, is that okay or do Imhave to provide an at will oyster shell feeder seperate?

I just want to be sure. I get small blood spots once in awhile, I understand that it is fine to eat eggs with the bloo spot there. I dont have a rooster. On a couple of other eggs i had a few grains of darker material, looked like dirt or something. Couldthat be sand? Do i need to be...

I have had three laying hens for the last six weeks or so and with the exception of maybe three days I get an egg everynday. The last couple days only got two. I am not real concerned about that unless I need to check for something? I noticed some thin shells recently, today I had a broken egg...