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Thank you so much for the tip. I'll check my local feed store and Amazon.

Thank you for the advice. Atty seems to be a little bit better today--I brought her out to the front yard this morning to free range and she enjoyed eating grass and roaming around. She stayed out there peacefully for about an hour. I think she's still in shock, though, because she moves really...

Hello all. I am fairly new to chicken raising and could really use some advice. The other night, Saturday, while I was getting my chickens ready to go in their coop for the night, one (or possibly two) of my hens viciously attacked another one of my hens. I have two chicken species, Rhode Island...

The same thing happened to one of my girls, Missy, towards the beginning of her first big molt earlier this year. She was just standing around with a collapsed egg hanging out of her. I put on gloves, picked her up, and got it out of her, then cleaned her vent gently with water, gave her lots of...

Thank you. :) She's an Americana. Mostly white with gold on her tummy and, after her first molt, a dark head and black spots on some of her tail feathers.

Nobody is laying right now because all of my girls are either finishing up or still going through a molt. Maybe like you said she finds it warmer; she's still regrowing her tail feathers. I sometimes pick her up and put her on the perch but more often than not she looks at me guiltily and jumps...

That's a relief. Thank you for letting me know. I have found her "sister," Poppy, sleeping in a laying box too and I thought that the big girls were bulling the littles off of the perch, but Poppy sleeps on the perch at night more often than not.

Hi all. I have a small flock of six chickens, four 20-month-olds (three Rhode Island Reds and one Americana who were all chicks together), and two eight-month-old Americanas (who we got the day they hatched, and they've been together their whole life). The two littles have been bullied by the...

They may be getting ready to molt, I've noticed a couple of the 17-month-olds looking bare in places (around the butt and the crop). Thank you for the suggestion.

We'll cut back on the treats and see if that helps. Thanks for the advice.

I mean, to reiterate, the "treats" we give them are fresh greens from the garden, pieces of fruit, seeds and hen scratch, and kitchen scraps that consist of vegetables and a tiny bit of leftover grains. We've been feeding them this way all along and they were laying fine until we rehomed Ruthie...

That would make sense, but the softshell eggs have mostly been larger than the eggs that the babies have been laying, and the shells that we've seen have been brown instead of blue. The first couple softshell eggs, that didn't have any shell at all, could definitely have been from one of the...

I didn't know that treats weren't good for them. The treats are mostly pieces of fruit and kitchen scraps with a handful of dead worms. We are careful not to give them too much bread, but I didn't know that fruit, vegetables, and grain would be detrimental to their reproductive systems. I'll cut...

Hi fellow chicken peeps, I have a small flock of six hens--three, 17-month-old Road Island Reds, a 17-month-old Americana, and two six-month-old Americanas. The older girls started laying last summer and laid fine until mid-winter, then petered out for a while and started laying more...