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I didn't realize that the feeder was empty for a while and one of my chickens gorged herself on food when I refilled it maybe 3 hours ago. She looks almost like she's gagging while her crop moves up and down. Her crop itself is enlarged and hard, but she's acting fine besides that. I've given...

Unfortunately I don't have the financial capacity to take her to the vet right now. I haven't seen any worms myself, and my other hen is perfectly fine, so I didn't think it would be worms. Should I be considering it a possibility?

Yes, she's been laying normally this whole time.

One of my buff orpington hens (2 years old) has had trouble defecating for months now, with no signs of anything being wrong other than her straining to defecate and only letting out very little at a time. Her feces looks completely normal besides it being very small, and she is showing...

I try to do a little something for the sabbats at least but often don't have the time because of school. Since Yule falls during winter break, though, I'm looking forwards to being able to finally celebrating! I'm absolutely going to make my chickens join me, though I don't have any clue how...

I bought my buff orpington chicks when they were five days old. We were only going to get two but ended up impulsively getting a third one. Holly was the bossy one. She decided she was my top hen and would cuddle with me in my lap every time I sat down. She would chase all the other wild birds...

I have three seven month old buff orpington hens that I hand raised since they were five days old. One is exactly like you'd imagine an orpington to be like—incredibly sweet and docile and cuddly. The smallest one is more shy, louder, and doesn't like being held for long. The biggest one is...

I have buff orpingtons, which generally are very quiet. Sometimes, if they need something, they'll yell at the top of their lungs to get me to come outside, though this isn't any louder than any other wild, loud bird. In fact, sometimes I get confused as to whether I'm listening to a raven or my...

You could always take the chickens one by one from their area and add them to your flock and hope they don't notice your flock growing. Maybe they'd think it's just predators...

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Our garden is now a few pits of soil for our chickens to play and scratch in... I just watched our garden...

I was worried that my biggest chick would be a cockerel, but she was still a pullet. It's almost impossible to really tell until they're a few more weeks old. I wasn't absolutely sure until they were about six weeks, I believe. If you bought all females, there's obviously still a chance of...

My chicks had aspen shavings which worked very well for us.

I haven't been on here since my girls were chicks, but they're starting to lay now! We haven't had the time to make a nesting box until a few days ago, so we've let them lay their eggs in the coop for the past couple of weeks wherever they saw fit since we've only got three chickens and it's a...