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I been trying to find out whats wrong with my flock (9). I have 2 creole hens ( I guess they are product of mixing different breeds for may years) they are the helthier and older of the flock (6 or 7 y/o) , 1 older barred rock ( about 5 y/o), 1 rooster ( sultan/silky mix about 3 to 4 y/o). The...

My beautiful Karaya is a young easter egger/longghorn mix. After a while she started to lay soft shell eggs ocassionally, some so fragile as it appear to not have shell at all and eventually stop laying; other than that she have good color, eat wells and is very active, recently i notice she...

I have a small pond w goldfish and some aquatic plants, among them water lettuce, I been composting the excess, but i always wonder if i can give them to my hens as a treat... My chickens are in a tiny coop w a run, and I feed them 30% & layers food plus all the veggies & fruit scrap available.

II have 2 hens & 1 rooster, and some days ago I get a young hen, she is big in size as she is a black cooper maran, but stil not mature, she is suppose to start laying in one or two months ... the question is; It will be safe to put her in the coop? It may be a danger for her health if the...

My friends hen a "kikiriki" (its a tiny chicken breed) is sick, her comb was red and it turns black, is not eating & is walking like a penguin, her poop is yellow . My friend is syringe feeding her olive oil & "baby -bird-food" , and gave her a warm bath with epsom salt... Can anyone help...

My hen Yamina is broody with 2 eggs, and yesterday she left the nest but i dont know know for how long as I was working at that time... does anyone knows is it possible the eggs still ok?

My hens Gina and Yamina became widows a couple of weeks ago, and today Gina who is the alpha one and the oldest wake me up with a strange noise, as I get up and watch from the window I see her standing in the characteristic rooster pose in what seems to be her attempts to sing as a rooster...

My rooster, Cheb Coco, is sick,i notice today is not crowing, and most of the time lay down, breathing with difficulty, he even let me pick him up. I gave him an atibiotic pill they sell my in the agro store when he got hurt in a fight. he seems to evacuate ureas? a white liquid... any advice...

I have two hens & they lay an average of 11 eggs by week, usually one of them lay big oval eggs, while the other lay rounded eggs, both ligth brown, but the round ones usually are darker...now lately I find from time to time eggs with freckles, and they been looking ligthly different from...

I need to get rid of him!!! Shortly after I bring home my chickens Cheb Cocó & his wives Gina & Ginger, one of the neighbor's free range roosters show up in my backyard trying both to fancy the hens & to fight my roo... Seems to me he is the lower in range in his flock ( of 3 roosters...

Hi! I join BYC and create my coop page just a couple of days before you upgrade the platform... now I was trying to teach my friend who just join a couple of days ago how to create a page and it was imposible to find "page tool" or de "dark blue bar" with the "my page " option...help please...

Is currently going on a Best Coop Page Contest (2012) ??? I think I read a thread of instructions the other day & cant find it...so maybe it was a past due one?

would love to know what breed they are?

Hi, I build our small coop already ( 3'x4') with 2 nests ...still need to add the runner... I was planing to add a 3'x6' cage for a total space of 3'x 10' runner for which I was planing on buying 3 girls & a boy (australorps)almost a year old... but i wonder, how much extra space I will...

Hi I'm new here, as a registered member, but have been months reading, watching the coop designs and learning... soon i will have my first chickens and i been designing for weeks and these two weeks constructing a tiny chicken coop, I like to thank you all for your postings as have being of...