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There are the cutest ducklings at the local store - Indian Runner Ducks! I have 8 chickens and am new to ducks, but I would love to have some for eggs if its feasible. Can ducks and chickens live in the same coop? Ducks don't roost, right? Do they sleep on the floor? Thanks for any info!

My chickens have mites and I need to treat them. I don't want to use carbaryl (Sevin Dust). Which pyrethrin spray can I use on them and where can I get it? I am in Colorado near Boulder - we don't have a big animal supply place near by. Thanks! Sarah

My hens are a little over 14 months old. Recently 2 of them just died (a couple weeks apart) after acting normally the day before. They didn't stop laying and didn't seem to have any problems - we just found them dead on the floor of the coop. I have 8 now and they all seem thin. Their chest...

I found a hen dead this afternoon in the coop. Her head was arched over her back and her legs were out to her side and she was lying on her side inside the coop. She was a year old and hasn't been showing any signs of illness. I had a hen with paralysis a couple months ago that we had put to...

My 5 month old pullet has started squatting for us and singing the egg song. I have found a couple of really small blue eggs in the egg boxes the last couple of days and I'm wondering if they could be hers. My 9 other hens are 1 year old and lay nice large eggs. She hatched out of a brown...

I wish I could get a video, but I've only seen this happen 3 times with this one particular hen, my yellow EE hen Polly. Here's my best attempt at describing it: It seems like another hen bothers her and then she sticks her head out and rubs it on the ground, walking backwards quickly while...

I have 9 hens who just turned a year old. One barred Rock has started pinning another to the ground and pecking her head so hard she has pulled out half the feathers and made her bloody a few times. Today, I witnessed a RIR HEN doing this: What in the heck are my chickens doing? All of...

I'm going to go clean her up. I don't have blu-kote, I'm not sure where to get it, and the roads are slick and awful from the snow. Is there anything else I can put on her? I'm going to separate her in the coop until it heals up a bit. Anything else I should do? Thanks, Sarah

I have this hen that I've been keeping inside since she was acting dizzy last week. I took her to the vet and he didn't really know but suspected some sort of trauma. I just looked at the bottom of her foot and saw this: Is this bumblefoot? Can someone point me to a good way to deal with...

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The hen that I've been keeping inside our house in a dog crate for her inability to walk now has lice or mites around her vent! YUCK! I tried dusting her all over with DE and they are still there a couple days later. I really don't want to use something toxic since she is near my 3 year old...

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What should I feed a laying hen to put weight on her? She's also recovering from some sort of injury to her leg, so I have her isolated. Thanks!

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My 10 month old Gold Laced Wyandotte is having trouble walking. It's as if she loses her balance, then she lowers down onto the ground to rest and eat. She had trouble jumping up 8 inches to get on top of the raised garden beds when I was watching her today, but the she was able to get up onto...

I purchased an automatic door and battery/trickle charge kit from http://www.chickendoors.com/ about 2 weeks ago. The door is well-made and solid, but the electrical cord that came with it was damaged when I got it. I tried to contact the owner multiple times and have never heard back from...

I figure this hen must be molting. She is 10 months old and looks like this: Is she molting? Thanks!

One of my 2 8-week-old chicks was killed and eaten in the yard while the flock was free ranging yesterday afternoon. Today, the flock is acting very scared and strange. How long will it take them to act normal again? Is something still scaring them? I don't know what killed the chick, but...

My husband went to put the chickens back in the coop for the evening tonight and couldn't find our two chicks that were hatched 8 weeks ago. We finally found a bunch of feathers and what looks like vertebrae from one of them. Eventually, the other one came out of hiding and is safe and sound...

Two of my 10 hens backs look like this. What is wrong with them and what can I do to fix it? I don't have roosters, btw.