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My husband has mentioned to me twice now that in the past couple of weeks he has found some eggs with cloudy, tan and even greenish whites. I haven't seen any other than some cloudy ones, I've assumed that is from them freezing in the coop before being collected. Their diet right now is...

Since it got fairly cold here a few days ago my chickens are avoiding the outside at all costs. I keep their water (on a heat base) outside, close to the pop door and feed inside. I see them go out to get a quick drink now and then but, other than that they don't venture out at all. They have a...

So, I got some hatchery chickens last spring.They did really well until winter when they started having a feather picking problem. It has become a habit I just can't seem to break. Extra protein, as much free range time as possible, less "treats" so they eat their food, Stop pick every few days...

My chickens are just over 1yr old. I started with 11 but, culled one roo last summer then the other about a month ago after he started to get way too aggressive with people. I also had one hen die a couple of weeks ago. She had been "unwell" most of her life after battling sour crop at about 12...

Roos get more aggressive in the spring "breeding" season? I have a neighbour who has had chickens for a long time. We were telling him that our roo started attacking us this spring and he said "Oh, he'll calm down in a few weeks when breeding season is over". I'm not sure I believe this.

I've had feather picking issues this winter, likely due to space issues (first winter with chickens, learned a lot). So I've been letting my chickens free range for a few hours a day, with supervision. Yesterday and today my roo attacked me while we were outside. Today he did it also while I was...

I have yet to go out to the garage fridge to take a look at the egg but, my hubby said we got a white egg yesterday! I have 2 RIR (hatchery stock, likely mixed), 2 BRs, 2 BSL and 3 "columbian reds". I have always gotten medium brown eggs, some with speckles. The sizes vary but, not by much...

I currently have my nest boxes inside my coop. This summer I plan on a) expanding my coop or b) changing to nest boxes that hang on the outside. I just want a little more floor space for my birds. My biggest issue is my DH is going to be doing the building. When he and his dad built my coop...

I took a whole bunch of pics of my birds today, here are some of the ones that show the damaged feathers best. This is the one who had the wound being pecked at. The other feather kids. Close up of above Chicken This is a close up of my Roo. Close up of one of the below chickens...

AHHHH!!! I came home today and one of my hens had a (a coumbian mix) bleeding spot on her rump. I saw one of my black sex linked peck at her a few times. I remembered it can be lack of protein so, I just went and got a layer supplement (22% protein). Should I replace their layer with flax (17%...

I just went out to collect eggs and noticed my rooster is missing a bunch of fluff feathers, just below his tail feathers on his bum. The skin is not inflamed at all and nobody else is missing feathers. I have 1 roo and 9 hens. I'm not sure but, I'm thinking this is from him breeding the hens so...

I'm sure others have gotten one this big but, I was shocked when I saw it. I had to clean it off because it had a fair amount of blood on it. Here is another pic of it. On the right is the smallest egg I've gotten (I think a first egg from my sour crop girl), in the middle an "average"...

My very first cull! Kill, pluck, butcher and now in a brine to be BBQd tomorrow! I wasn't sure I'd be able to kill him but, I did. We made a killing cone out of a bucket. I found slitting his throat harder than I though it would be and wound up cutting his windpipe too but, I got the job done...

This is the first dog we have actually bought in a long, long time. He was purchased from a long time friend for the specific purpose of breeding to one of our females. CH Kabu's Wendigo Smoke (Echo).

I needed a pick up today with my chickens. I have one likely dying from sour crop (treatment not going well) and I had another who had been laying for 4 days quit laying on me. WELL...Yesterday I had to do some work on my nest boxes and decided to give the hen (that stopped laying) an option...

18 week old RIR (hatchery stock). No other birds ill in the flock, no sign of worms that I see. I noticed her crop about 10 days ago. I separated her, withheld food, flushed her crop and vomited her. I could not feel anything hard in her crop so decided to leave her alone, feed her soft food...

I have a bird (17wk RIR) I have isolated to treat for sour crop. I noticed today she was getting worse again after 3 days of improving.(not wanting to eat, crop very distended) I decided to give her crop a feel and it was very mushy, gassy feeling. So, I flushed and vomited her. Some grass came...

My young chicken just started laying about a week ago. She had an egg daily for about 4 days. After day 2 the eggs started getting bigger and for 2 days she laid average sized eggs. Yesterday no egg and she was lethargic. I was quite worried about her. Today again no egg but, she is not...

One of my 4mo old RIRs. She seems to be doing OK. I flushed and vomited her, withholding food for about 36 hours. her crop is still a bit large but, is not filling anymore. I had to take news paper out of her seclusion pen (dog crate) because she kept eating it. I gave her plain yogurt and she...

So, I've now gotten 3 eggs in 2 days. The first in the middle of the coop, under the roost, so I think it was a "fall out" egg. The other 2 under my nest boxes. I started with torn paper in the boxes. I didn't think they'd like it all that much, it was just a place holder until I could get...