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I'm pretty sure my 7 month old free range sexlink was attacked by a hawk yesterday. I found her alone in my garage cowering in a corner of my garage surrounded by feathers. I picked her up and realized half of her tail feathers and a good chunk of her rear and back feathers were gone. She also...

Yesterday one my hens (6 months) was showing all the symptoms of being egg bound but I saw her squat and lay a soft shelled egg and afterwards she continued to show symptoms. I gave her a warm bath and she perked up but no egg came out. Can a hen be egg bound and still lay an egg? (Maybe get...

I have one hen out of 6 that is laying eggs while on the roost, while walking around the coop and when I let them out to freerange she will just drop it, almost like she doesn't know it's coming. (Is that possible?) Today she layed it in the compost pile and one chicken pecked it and now...

My hens are 18 week old sexlinks. I have been collecting 2 eggs a day from the nesting boxes for about a week and a half thinking that the other hens just weren't ready yet. I did notice one hen, every morning making a mad dash for the woods when I let them out to free range. This morning I...

Ok, my girls, 6 sexlinks, are 13 weeks old and loving the free range lifestyle. They are more active and so curious and also cautious which I am glad of. They love my garden and I have trained them to eat caterpillars which was a blast. They followed me around while I pulled leaves off and had...

At what age can you give chicks grit. I have four day old chicks in a box and they are picking at the floor. I'm afraid they are bored.