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So I have 9 Brahma hens and a lovely Brahma rooster plus some other mixed breeds, total of 12 hens and a rooster. And NOBODY is laying hardly at all. I get maybe 7 eggs a week if I'm lucky. I've killed or relocated all the snakes that have come into their area and have not seen rats in the...

She started with 12 eggs, then the numbers began to dwindle. At first I thought it was rats--it can't be snakes because the nights have been in the 30's or even 20's too often. Then I decided she was eating her own eggs. I was furious. Furious!!!!! How can this be happening? After doing a...

First our cat, that was before we realized it was lepto. Three weeks later one of our dogs was not looking perky, kept coughing so we took her in for an appointment. That's when the veterinarian did a blood test and informed us we had leptospirosis on our property and to bring the remaining...

You guessed it: got them from a straight run. They are approximately less than a week old. And of course--using Chicken Math guidelines--I bought 12 instead of 4 :barnie

Edited. For some reason I can't upload the images but it was an adult grey rat snake. They're beneficial so I don't want to kill him (although he does frustrate the hell outta me--I've seen him a few times now and never been able to catch him). So my plan is to make a snake trap using rope...

Hi Friends, This is difficult (because I want the answer to be NO), but I have 27 birds. In my mature laying hens (2 years old) one of the Buff Orphington's has a strange eye. It's pupil is tiny, while on the other side, the pupil is normal. She eats, drinks, lays normally. Comb is slightly...

So who out there has tried floating catfish food? Well I highly recommend it. We started keeping chickens in 2017 (after doing a ton of research on which birds we wanted, etc) and have been supplementing their diets daily with a "treat" of about a quart of floating catfish food which we buy at...

So one of my 8 supposedly Welsummers just doesn't look Well-ish at all. Pretty though. Plus he/she appears to have some pinkish looking comb/wattle in addition to black feathers in the chest area. Which would be fun if it turns out to be a Welly Rooster but is it a Welly? I hope they didn't...

So here he is. All of these are of the same little boy. Approx 5-6 weeks old. He's quite scrappy already and is in that awkward stage where his baby fluff hasn't all converted over to adult feathers yet. I'm convinced he's a HE. Yes? No?

Hi All, So this isn't my first rodeo--have 2 dozen mature birds (different breeds) from 2 years ago, variety of breeds, all raised from 1 week old. All good so far. Two weeks ago I bought a dozen Welsummer babies . They seemed to be of the same age when I first brought them home, but as the...

Hey, MomJones here. Was on here a few years ago, my life changed for a couple of years and now I'm back with my "girls"-- 24 hens. Buff Orphingtons, Plymouth Rocks and Easter Eggers. :D