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These two geese were dumped last night just across from our property. The little bridge they are on leads to our property and fortunately they found the water rather than go the other direction towards the street. I have taken them some food to them and I feel so sorry for them. I know...

One of my chickens has been keeping her wings down all of the time. I thought she was doing it to protect herself from being pecked but I'm not so sure anymore. I've only witnessed the other chickens occasionally pecking at her and she does have a spot on her back where she has no feathers...

I live in Texas and it is 100+ degrees every day right now. I gather eggs around 5:30 and sometimes the eggs are fairly hot. My chickens mostly lay in a nesting spot and in their nesting box. Their nesting spot is inside the coop and it has several windows and a door which provides...

I discovered one of my chicken's dead this evening. She is one that was the most dominant. Her neck was floppy (broken neck?) and she had a few dried blood spots on her but no apparant wounds. She was laying under a roost so we wonder if she jumped up and hit the roost and it somehow broke...

I have another broody hen and I am really worried because my last (and first) broody hen died so I want to know what to do differently this time. I purchased a cage from the pet store (it was meant to be for a parrot). I placed it in the outside portion of the coop. She always had plenty of...

One of my hens is laying in a corner of the coop all day long. This corner is where the hens lay eggs (when they don't lay in the nesting box) but she lays there even when there are no eggs. She does get pecked on by some of the others so I wonder if they leave her alone when she lays there so...

The thread about raw cookie batter is similar to this one but the seemingly never ending discussion at our house is about making our own mayonnaise. We go through a lot of mayo and my husband thinks we should be making it ourselves. Our store purchased mayo says it contains egg yolks but I...

I received this book from an online book swap site. It's a memoir about a lady starting life over in a house by the sea as a first time chicken owner. It's a cute, short book. Throughout the book she refers to a backyard chicken online group which I think must be BYC. I have finished reading...

We have 16 hens and 1 rooster that are all 7 months old. My rooster has been doing his thing lately and most of the hens are missing saddle feathers. I ordered them saddle coats today. Yesterday Mr. Marble started getting on the hens once I entered the coup. I had been outside, away from the...

I made the mistake of hard boiling a dozen fresh eggs and now I cannot peel them without taking off most of the white. I know it's okay to feed chickens boiled eggs, and it's okay to feed them ground egg shells, but would it be okay to NOT peel these eggs and instead put them in the food...

My husband cleaned the chicken coop today and put in new bedding. He used the same type of bedding as was in there previously. I just went to check that they all went inside for the night and eight of them (including my rooster) were outside. The other chicks were inside but up on a ledge...

Here are two more finishing their oatmeal. I will get some more photos in a bit. I have taken quite a few photos but I just realized there are some real camera hogs who appear in most of the photos. 😄

I think the gal on the far left is an Ameraucana and the black and white speckled gals are Plymoth Rocks. I think the golden one's are Orpington's. I'm not sure about the white one's...Easter Eggers or Sussex? Also in the photo is the black/gray colored chicken (behind one of the white...

We got 17 chicks in July and ended up with one rooster. I call him Mr. Marble because of the pattern of his feathers. I would love to know what breed he is. I'm new to chickens but he seems friendly for a rooster. He has started greeting me and coming up to me when I'm in the coop, although...

Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? Yes, new to chickens. We got our chicks in July. We previously rescued Jack Russell's so couldn't have chickens. How many chickens do you have right now? 17 What breeds do you have? I'm not certain what breed they all are but I...