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Hi all - seems this is a whole new world to learn about. I have a nearly 4yo buff orpington who goes broody all the time, and is so right now. It's really hard to break her so I decided to see what she could do, purchasing 7 eggs yesterday. And now - yikes, I realize I know _nothing_ about...

Hi - 5yo Rhode Island Red - she hasn't laid much for a good 2 years, when I give her calcium pills as suggested here, she used to lay sometimes sporadically but not for a good while. I've witnessed several no-shell and soft-shell eggs. Her tail end really droops and lots of gooky ick on the...

Hi everyone - I'm trying to learn and read. It's hard to know what to dig into though on this gargantuan site! I'm concerned about a nearly-3yo Rhode Island Red. She's laid few eggs for several months now, since 2 of 4 of her flock died (perhaps earlier though). The ones she lays have very thin...

Well, I have had chickens for a few years now, but things have only recently "happened". And so now, suddenly, I realize there is so, so, so much to know.... Sorry to be annoying, obviously many here understand that what you know is prodigious. But how much I don't know is just beginning to...

A second chicken of a flock of four is sick. The first seemed perhaps at first to have a sour or impacted crop; she died. There is a long thread about that. But when I finished attending to her, I realized her best mate in the flock was walking in tight circles. Oh no. Things have gone downhill...

Sorry - I have chickens but zero idea what to do or even how to diagnosis when things go wrong. And - y'all are so knowledgeable and prolific I'm actualy finding it a little hard to figure out here where to go for this. Bottom line - I have a lethargic, miserable little araucana. She's usually...

Thanks for your thoughts! (it's feral and someone else was asking).

Hi folks - I am so ignorant about all of this I appreciate the wisdom. I looked for this topic but cannot seem to find it, I'm grateful to study more if someone can point me to what I'm missing! I have a buff orpington who just loves to go broody. No rooster. She's so determined, it's almost...

Does squatting have various meanings? Recently my hens (1.5yo, starting their second year of laying) have become more willing to be petted and I notice two of them will often squat at my feet - they seem actually to want to be petted. This is new, they used to hate being touched, period. Then...

My "Trigo" survived a possum attack and the gashes inside of her have actually healed however... her comb was growing paler even while she seemed more or less back to normal behaviorally. And now I see these scabs on her comb. Which has also shrink considerably in size I see looking back at...

I have a 1.5 yo Rhode Island Red that was gored 5 days ago by a possum. She's good at hiding the wounds and my husband didn't notice how badly she is injured. Though I may have made her worse by trying to clean her up yesterday (when I returned from out of town). Attached is a picture of the...

A possum got at my flock of four. My husband rescued one from underneath a possum and thought the chicken was ok but... when I returned home 3.5 days later I am discovering she's walking about with literal holes in her sides. ¿Should I do anything? ¿Is there anything to be done? If she's...

Hi - I've always just crackled up the eggs' shells we use and feed em back. They seem to disappear, more or less. But I noticed recently someone actually using a food processor to pulverize them and add the powder to the feed. Is this necessary? Maybe... answered as a function of whether you've...

I have a half dozen mussel shells and not a lot of calcium around. I figured I could smash these up and feed them to the girls but... the shards appear awfully sharp. There was an _eww_ thread on here about someone's crop actually having a gash in it. Could these sharp mussel shells actually put...

Hey everyone! I'm finally dragging myself into your community. We have 4 year-plus hens, our second crop. The first were "rescue chickens" and in very poor health. They were sweet and possibly very old and died after a year or so ... we spent a year in mourning, then purchased four babies and...