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I am moving from Michigan to Connecticut in a few weeks. Our new property has bears about, we saw some big, big piles of bear scat when we were there. We have had good luck with our coop design in southern MI, but we do not have bears here. Are we going to just move them to have bears attack...

Paulie Walnuts is a very sweet boy and is 2 years old now. A little short on brains, but he is very sweet, lets you pet him, eats out of your hand and takes great care of his girls. He lives in a flock with 8 hens and has done a great job protecting them and is a proven dad--we have a few of his...

I have a 3 year old crosssbred (BR x EE) rooster who has been nothing but sweet to us and attentive toward his 8 hens until now. I noticed our Australorp hen, of course our oldest and most favorite, has been isolating herself this week, and when I or any of the other chickens approach her, she...

We happened to be out of the state for the day when this dead ash tree fell over in high winds and mooshed the coop. It's a mess but we can fix it. All chickens are unhurt.

Want to do your own fecal exams? Barely used 6-tube centrifuge, holds ~15 mL tubes. $50, free shipping.

I woke up to find one of my hens dead in the coop this morning. I did a necropsy on her and wanted to share, as I try to do. She was a very interesting one today. She had at least 3 major things wrong with her, but I believe her cause of death was kidney failure. She was bright and alert and...

Paulie Walnuts is figuring out he's a boy chicken, and is starting to crow. I know this will probably not be cute for long, but for now he sounds like he's having trouble getting his engine started. It would really make my day if someone told me he will always sound like this.

I beg of you. This is a 13-week-old Barred Rock x EE cross. It had the markings of a female BR when it hatched, so I never really considered that "she" may be a cockerel. Please tell me we have a girl. This is my husband's favorite, she flies up to his shoulder like a parrot, and he goes out...

Free. Vicksburg, MI (Kalamazoo county). Very sweet, tame. Will eat out of your hands.

I have two Easter Egger chicks that I believe are cockerels, but before I send them off down the road, I need confirmation. What say you, wise hive? I am pretty confident about the black one, but I wanted to be sure about the gray with the rusty shoulders as well. They were hatched June 9th...

My husband built this little thing to fit inside two of our nest boxes to accommodate our broody hen and her chicks that are due to hatch next week. We designed it so Mom can hop out when she needs to so she can eat and drink, but the chicks can't wander. I want to keep them contained and will...

Hi all, I very suddenly lost my 1 year old, apparently healthy Swedish Flower hen yesterday and would like to share as this may be useful to others. She had been bright, alert, eating and laying just fine with no signs of illness, and then she was dead in the nestbox. She was in perfectly good...

Hi! My 9 chickens (all hens) have started to spend most of the day in bed. I'd be concerned if it were one, but it's most or all of them. They're all bright, alert and in good condition, but only three of them appear to be laying. They go out to their enclosure to eat and drink and hang out, but...

They chewed a hole in the plastic chicken wire and invited all their friends. I swear, I wouldn't even mind feeding them if they didn't kill chickens.

I did a fecal on my chickens and thought I'd share the process, hopefully this be informative. I am planning to treat my hens with 20 mg/kg fenbendazole for tapeworms and nematodes. Here's what I found on the fecal exam. Ascaridia (roundworms): There were many, many of these tapeworm eggs. If...

This article was just posted online by Clinician's Brief, and I thought it would be handy to have here for reference of basic parasites of backyard chickens. There is a lot of information here in one short article. :)

My husband found some cameras for surprisingly little money and set them up in my chicken coop. They require wifi and power, and do not broadcast online, you can only access the live feed from your phone, as it's an app. They are not weatherproof, so if you put them outside, they need to be...

My partridge Chanticler started to go downhill about a week ago and died yesterday. All of my other chickens are fine. She started to sleep on the nest box at night, lost weight rapidly despite being very interested in food, stumbled a little, and had a poopy butt. Necropsy findings: I started...

I have an older girl with bumblefoot. She has pea-sized swellings between a couple of her toes, and one fat ankle. She's getting around ok with a barely perceptible limp, and is certainly eating enough. I was thinking of just watching her and intervening if it gets to the point where she's in...

I purchased some new pullets and hens from a local chicken fancier, she has some very unusual and beautiful chickens. We now have Bielefelders, Swedish Flowers, Cream Legbars and Silver Lace Wyandottes and one other, pictured here. She has no comb and very small wattles, and is medium-size (not...