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Hi, Sorry to be panicky, but this is my first time awaiting grandchickens. So many questions I just can't quite find the answers to. I have a hen sitting on 10 eggs, which unfortunately were laid over a span of about 7-10 days. First chick hatched 2 days ago. 1) If eggs have a pip or part of a...

Hi Everyone, I am a first time chicken grandmother, and I hope you can help me figure out what is going on with my mama hen. I have a buffy sitting on eggs in the coop. Unfortunately, the eggs are staggered probably over a span of a week, as other hens snuck their eggs into her nest and my dh...

Hi all, I'd like your 2 cents. A day or two ago, I found the feeder in the coop knocked off the hook and completely dumped out. I have discovered a opossum once or twice this year, snacking on the grain, though this time I didnt see a culprit. Yesterday I couldn't find 2 hens. One emerged...

Hi everyone, I wrote this post earlier but I can't find it, so I'm trying again. Last night, we got back from vacation, and I found we were missing one hen, and my beloved ridiculously funny rooster. This morning, I found the poor hen hiding in the rain, under the grill. She had a wound in...

Hi All! Background: we have 3 hens who are 3 year old, all good layers, all lay in their nest boxes but free range most of the day. We have 14 new chicks which arrived on April 15th from McMurray (allegedly shipped as day-old chicks, so they should be only about 6-7 weeks old.) Their breeds...

Hi All, I'm hoping someone can help me figure out what killed my (husband's favorite) hen. First of all, I have to say it was totally completely my fault, because of a crazy busy afternoon and evening of kids sports, I rushed home, had to feed, bathe, and get 5 kids to bed, and in the mayhem, I...

Hi everyone, Today I found myself totally covered in mites! So maybe my silkie isn't moulting or brooding after all! Maybe she is being eaten by mites. I couldn't find elsewhere on the site what to do for mite infestation, although I'm sure it's on here. Any advice, Pansy would greatly...

Hello, everyone, I posted a few days ago on a different board about my silkie hen, Pansy. She is about 8 months old, and has been just staying in the nest boxes most of the time. She seemed to be in whichever box had eggs. She would come out to eat and drink, but didn't go out in the yard to...

Hope you all can help me. I have a silkie, about 7 months old, that suddenly won't leave the nest boxes. She has moved from one nest box to another, but won't come out of the hen house (they free-range). Last night I brought her inside, thinking she will get too cold at night if she is unable...

Hi - I'm having trouble finding a place that sells DE. Those of you that use it, where do you get it? Anything else that works well for a dust bath? And what type of area do you provide for the dust bath? Thanks!

Hi everyone, I have a flock of 13 chickens that are about 10-11 weeks old. There are 7 standard pullets, and 6 bantams, of whom at least 3 appear to be males. One of the roos has been spending lots of time chasing and constantly biting the second smallest bantam....who, it turns out, is now...

Hi All, Just wondering if anyone knows of a resource for listening to different chicken sounds? I'm new to the chicken world, and I'm dying to know what all their little sounds mean. Thanks!

Hi all, This is my first batch of chickies, and they are about 2 weeks old now. About a week ago, one of the black australorps started to look kind of unkempt. She looked like she had bald spots on her, but upon closer inspection, it looks more generalized. Her feathers are just extremely...

Hi again, Today is the second day we have had our 22 chicks, which arrived by mail yesterday. A couple of the bantams are weaker than the others - one in particular. Yesterday, I noticed that someone was leaving little circles of reddish-brown something. I can't tell if it is stool or...

Hi everyone! I hope you can help my little mille fleur d'uccle bantam fuzzball. The chickies arrived at the post office this morning (unexpectedly, a day early). One of the chickies looked poorly, squooshed in the corner, weak, eyes closed. As the day has progressed, she continued to be...

Hi all, I'm starting to panic because our chickies will arrive soon, and I don't even have a plan for the coop. My husband and I are not builders, nor do we know any. I have not been able to find design plans for a hen house that will match our house to some extent. If I draw my own ideas, I...

Hi everyone! I have been researching and researching and researching coop designs, plans, etc, and haven't found ANYTHING I like that will look appropriate in our yard. Finally I gave up and started drawing what I want the chicken house to look like....but I am by no means an architect or a...

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Sorry for the silly question, but I'm new to this scene! Thanks!

Hi all, I'm a newbie to the chicken world, and am trying to plan our launch into this adventure this spring. Can anyone tell me about caponing, and whether this will change a rooster's behavior? I have 5 little kids (under 6 years) and I can't have a grumpy rooster around. I'd order sexed...