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I'm still in my first year with Ducks. Two of my females have stopped laying eggs completely. My youngest is still laying about one egg a day. Is this normal? The duck eggs are my favorite to eat and I'm hoping they will start to lay again.

I have a hen who became severely egg bound while I was out on Vacation last weekend. My house sitter was able to get the egg out intact (Friday eve), but my hen's behind is quite a mess. I came home on Sunday and helped her pass another egg (intact). I cleaned her up by soaking her behind as...

Hello! I just butchered some roosters and we cut up two of them to make fried chicken. We wanted to take a third to roast and rigor mortis has already set in. This is my first time with fresh butchered birds. I'm guessing I have to hold off to roast the bird with rigor mortis. Question...

I have two chickens with feather issues. The first is a Cucku Maran that is about 3 years old. She had a lot of feather loss on her back and wings from my rooster, but after putting a saddle on her I did not see any improvement on her back and wings. Then she started to lose all the feathers on...

So last night I discovered that my rooster's leg was loose and floppy and he could not get on the roost. I felt his leg and cannot feel anything broken but he cannot walk on the leg and he doesn't seem to have any muscle control over it. What can I do?

My broody had 10 eggs under her. 4 hatched yesterday and I have one more that is pipped. She has now decided to get off the nest and only mother the babies, leaving the eggs to get cold. What can I do? I think the other eggs have just a couple more days to go until they hatch. Will it be ok...

I feel horrible. I just had my first broody hen experience. Started out with 9 eggs under her, 3 kicked out of the nest, 1 hatched at day 20 and 2 others on day 28 this past Tusday (big surprise to me). My Phoenix hen stopped sitting on the remaining eggs during the day as soon as the last 2...

I have my first broody hen and she started with 9 eggs under her. Two got kicked out by other hens tryng to lay on top of her (they were fertilized and developing--so sad). Out of the 7 left she hatched one last friday when I was on Vacation. That would have been day 20. My house sitter...

So I tried to move my first broody hen to my smaller coop so I could separate her from the main coop for raising the baby chicks. Even though the eggs were under her, she got very panicky and just ran back to the main coop and hopped back into the nesting box she was in. I tried one more time...

So I have my first broody hen after having chickens for over a year. She is a Golden Phoenix and suddenly went broody on Saturday. I'm very excited as I'd like to have some babies from my Roos. Here are my questions: 1. How long will she be broody for? Until the eggs hatch underneath her? 2...

I have a 2 year old Americana rooster that is beautiful, very loud, takes excellent care of his ladies but can be mean with people other than me. I really love "Chester" and he does take wonderful care of his flock. My 2nd rooster is a 10 month old Buff Orpington that was sexed as a hen...

So I built a nice new coop for my 9 adult chickens with 5 nesting boxes. I allow the chickens to free range during the day and they frequently find a hiding spot to lay their eggs rather than use the coop nesting boxes. Between bales of hay is their favorite. Is there anyway I can make the...

My 6 month old chicks are great free ranging and going into the coop at night, yet the 3 of them huddle together on the ground while the adult hens perch up on the roost. I'm not sure if it is because my roost is small for the number of chickens I have (building a new coop soon), or if they...

I'm getting ready to upgrade my coop as I have completely fallen in love with chickens and want more. Right now I have 9 crammed into a small coop (only at night, they free range during the day) with 2 nesting boxes--which isn't a problem as only 3 hens are old enough to lay. I'll try to post...

Today is my 2nd day free ranging my 3 - 12 week old chicks. My adult hen (just one) and rooster have not bothered them at all. Yesterday went great, they stayed close to their coop and although they didn't seem to want to go into the coop at night (my 2 doxies were close by behind bars but...

I have three chicks about 10-12 weeks old (I need to look at my receipt when I bought them for the exact date). I'm currently keeping them in a dog crate in the garage, and my other two chickens (one hen and one rooster, I lost 2 hens to the heat this summer) have hung out next to the dog crate...

I have now lost my 2nd chicken for some unknown reason. Both chickens seemed perfectly healthy the day before and the day of their death--eating, drinking (as far as I could tell), running around my property, scratching, etc. The only thing strange was they both stopped laying eggs for 2-3...

I have a hen that has been laying on her (and my other hen's) eggs quite a bit. She does get off of them too. I've never dealt with this before, as I've only had hens for about 6 months now (I got them as adults). Do broody hens get off the eggs? If yes, for how long? I'm trying to decide...

I went out to my coop this evening and found my smallest hen lying dead in the coop--whith her eyes shut. She had not been laying an egg everyday for the last couple weeks, but other than that she was showing no signs of illness that I could see. Yesterday she was running across the yard with...

Hello! I'm new to chickens, and I just purchased 3 hens and one rooster (13 months old). They are currently in a coop, but once settled I will allow them to free range during the day. I'm currently feeding them organic laying feed. What other supplements do they need to stay healthy and...