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I brought food to them earlier & put it in there with them & although they didn't seem extremely hungry they were interested in what it was & the food the hen picked out for them & then I left it on a small table slightly taller than the box right next to it so she could bring them food but I...

I have a broody hen that has been sitting on 4 eggs & so far she has hatched 3 of them but the chicks unfortunately are not able to get out of the nesting box to eat or drink. One chick has already fallen out of the box before but was not able to get back in by itself but I put it back in the...

I have 5 5 week old chicks & 7 7 week old chicks. I've put them together in a space outside(the weather is pretty warm), & they've been pecking each other but I've been raising chickens for 5-6 years & know its pretty normal for the to peck each other, but I've never integrated younger birds...

They looked over her feet & legs & didn't find anything.

So my friends chicken has been walking abnormally since December 28th & it will walk a few steps & then sit down. I haven't actually seen it this is just based on the description that they've given me. Does anyone know what could be wrong with this chicken? Here is what she looks like.

So I went outside today with my chicks to try to help integrate them into the flock more & I noticed that one of my rooster's spurs was a lot shorter than the other & looked very red. I can't catch him without another person because he's too skittish so I can't look at it closely so I can't tell...

He doesn't really seem to be as active as the other two or as alert so maybe a little lethargic and when I picked it up it didn't really seem to care too much then i put it down away from the heatlamp to make sure it could walk it took a moment to decide it would run back to the heat lamp then...

For the past day I've noticed that when I go down to check on my chicks one of them has always had their eyes closed whenever I see them but they're still alive and though one of the chicks in there bullied one of my other chicks once I haven't seen it doing that to these two. I can't seem to...

I'm hatching eggs and would like one of my hens to raise them. The problem is that there are 14 eggs and even though not all 14 may hatch I'm worried that my hen might not be able to raise them all with no fatalities even though shes a buff orpington and they are supposed to be good mothers.

I keep hens that need to regrow feathers in a coop with a main entry for the chickens that can be blocked off and there is another coop right below it. Sorry for the confusion it's just sometimes I make references to things I know about really well and because I know it well I expect others to...

So today it was really windy and I noticed something strange about one of my hens and that she had a lot of fatherless skin around her vent as well as a number of scabs. I don't know what this is and I only keep her with three other hens so it couldn't be a rooster. They do live upstairs so it...

I still find it a little worrying that she would only be molting around her neck, which could her more likely to get an injury or death because it's not well protected. Also my chickens tend to molt in the fall so that's another reason I don't think that's it. And in response to the question...

Some of my chickens have begun to lose a lot of their feathers, which I know is normal because of my rooster but I don't believe the rooster is behind this. In this picture you can see the baldness that's appearing not at the back but at the front of the neck but it doesn't appear to be red...

I live near raccoons, opossums, coyotes, owls, rare bald eagles, rare wolves I think, hawks, and snakes. But keep in mind I do have a net over their coop and it didn't appear to have been messed with.

Today when I was walking into my chicken pen I spotted one of my chickens splayed out on the ground seemingly dead(spoiler alert she was dead). She hadn't appeared to be injured the previous day and we have bricks lining the bottom of the fencing, the coop was locked, and they have a net over...