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So we have 4, one year old hens. A few weeks ago we noticed some broken feathers on our Silver Laced Wyandotte. They were all located above her tail, now she's got them on her chest too. There don't appear to be any missing feathers, just these broken off ends. Today we are seeing some of...

Our silkie chick that we raised ended up being a rooster, we are not allowed to have roosters and of course that was my favorite chicken. We found him a new home but if I can I'd like to find a hen to replace him. The rest of my flock is standard sized, and we are restricted to to five total...

We are rather (too!) quickly approaching the point where we can start working on our permanent coop and run. Currently we have a 'TSC Special' that we are considering a grow out coop, ok for our 5 pullets but not what we want for full time use. We do have some parts that we could get, no...

We got all 5 chicks together in a big cardboard box (taped together several smaller boxes.) We have carpet on the cement, then doubled cardboard, then a heavy duty tarp, newspaper and a fairly sparse layer of fine shavings. The chicks of course rip up all the newspaper and kick around the...

Hi everyone, new chicken parents here, with something of a mystery. We have 2 brooders with a total of 5 chicks, around 2-3 weeks old now (another story for another post) over the last 3 days I've had 3 separate incidents of empty waterers. We are using the quart jar gravity fed ones sold at...