My six (older) hens just went through a hard molt. My Barred Rock hen is staying in the nesting box at night instead of the roost where the other girls are. This morning I found an egg and also a huge pile of poop that had an odor. I have been seeing poop in the nesting box lately but not like...
We have had 5 chickens for over a year but recently lost two- one to a hawk and the other had heart problems. The man we got them from gave us 3 more and we have quarantined them and now have moved their small coop into the chicken yard and they are all getting along fairly well but we don’t...