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Hello all! Seeking hive mind advice for our silver-laced Wyandotte hen, Pepperpot. We noticed yesterday that the left side of her face is swollen and pale (see first pic). This is a new development that we didn't see last week. Upon further inspection, we also see that she has a case of...

I have a slight issue one of my ducks is not laying and possibly responsible for some soft shells I have seen around the yard. I don't know who it is but they are on layer feed and have oyster shell in a separate food bowl. All of my ducks are around 2-3 years old and there is one drake for 3...

We have had 3 cinnamon queen hens for about 2 months that we were getting 1-2 eggs a day from for a while and when we introduced two new hens to the coop, we have had no eggs for about a week. Is it normal for them to stop laying because of this change or could something be eating our eggs? They...

So im doing an experiment. It is winter and my hens are not laying as many eggs by far. I have read up on using cayenne pepper in water for hens to help increase egg production. Some say it works, others say its an old wise tale. From what I read it takes 2 days to take effect. It will not hurt...

This year has not been a nice year for my chickens or property. From decaying wood to predation, I do not have a safe winter home for my birds. I found a farrowing house for hogs on a property a mile from me that was left unused for a decade. I power washed it out and got it all ready for...

Hello, as the title says, I have noticed 1 of our 4 chickens (Rhode Island Red, All Born 3/30/17) has white tips on her feathers at the top of her head and has some baby feathers loose as shown in the pictures. I feel this may be molting due to age and we haven't seen her go through it but the...

This is my second year of back yard chickens and we have run into a bit of a problem. We keep 5 ducks(3 female,2 male), (4)2 year old hens and (6) 9 month old bantam hens all together and I’m only getting one chicken egg a day! The chickens roost in their coop and the ducks have a little house...

So I’ve got a tricky situation that I’ve never heard of. We’ve had chickens for about 3 years and have dealt with all kinds of situations with them. Starting 2 months ago our chickens just stopped laying eggs. At first we thought they were molting but they just finished going through that and...

Hoping for some advice, I have 5 chickens and no eggs. They're all 9 months or older and it just seems odd. I know some can take up to a year, I have a Brahma, Easter Egger, Ameracauna and 2 silkies. They do free range but I've checked the places they usually hang out and no eggs. The only...

I currently have 28 chickens, of which 9 are a year and a half, 10 are ~6 months old and the rest are chicks currently being raised by their broody mother. Since this spring, I have been getting highly reduced number of eggs. I would expect 5-6 per day from 9 older hens. At best im getting 4...

Hi everyone! I live in Australia and gave three backyard chickens, I'm pretty sure they're ISA browns. We've had them about two years, from a few months old. A few months ago the girls all went through molt. But one never grew them back, and has continued losing feathers on her chest, neck...

Please can someone help as we are not getting any eggs at all any more. Our little flock consists of a serama cockerel and hen, 3 pencilled wyandottes, one buff wyandotte and a buff laced wyandotte. Earlier this spring we hatched 2 wyandottes from bought eggs and 5 seramas from our seramas but...

hi! my ISA brown hen isn’t laying anymore! i recently introduced 2 bantam hens to the coop (not laying yet). could she be stressed out from the new chicks? they have oyster shell, layer feed, scratch, and are full time free range. any ideas? thank you so much!

we can't figure out why our whole flock has stopped laying in the middle of the summer. We have 3 year old production reds, 1 year old bantees and some other large red hens and 3 year old pekin ducks. about 2 weeks ago the egg production suddenly dwindled from great to nothing. our ducks are in...

hello! my two and a half year old bcm and delaware hens stopped laying recently. the bcm hasn’t been laying for a while but we didn’t realize that our delaware wasn’t laying until this week bc we had two other hens who layed similar eggs. the bcm i posted about previously and people told me she...

Hello everyone, I have 35 chickens, 12 are ISA Browns which up until recently were laying quite well. They were housed with about 20 Easter Eggers that were older and coming to the end of their egg laying. In August we bought 50 chicks in a "deal" with TSC for .50 apiece. We gave the easter...

Hello! Today we have found our chicken Ash hiding underneath a tree sleeping where she is usually with the flock. She also usually hates being picked up and will flap her wings, run and yell, while today she stood still while we picked her up to examine her. She had some poop stuck to her vent...

Hello everyone! I know that molting and often the winter time can hinder the laying of chickens but this has been going since the end of October or before that they quit laying. I have many different types of breeds, one or two roosters possibly, I think one at least, the rest, about 30 maybe...

We have had a small flock of heavy-breed backyard hens for about five years. On October 11th, we lost our young Barred Rock, Millie, due to what appeared to be (after my amateur autopsy) internal laying. Since two weeks after her death, we have not gotten eggs from any of the remaining three...

Hello, My wife and I are looking for some advice on our sick House Chicken. She is a Rhode Island Red and about 2.5 years old. She was attached by a red-tailed hawk last fall and has been living in the warm house ever since (my wife's idea... not mine). She lives in a dog crate (3' x 4')...