Just found out first eggs in the coop today!

One of my very favorite chickens suddenly started acting strange yesterday and I immediately isolated her. She lays on her side at times and almost pedals her legs. Also falls over to the front. It’s very hard to watch.

I’ve given her electrolytes, egg yolk, and she is eating. B2 vitamin is on the way.

I got her from TSC as a chick and she is 2 years old now. Could it be Mareks? Do I need to be terrified about the rest of my flock?

I have a small flock of 12 hens and one of the hens has been relentlessly picking on one of the other birds for months! The poor girl is scared to come out of the coop in the morning as the bully chases her all over the run and yard. Is there anything I can do to help them squash their beef?

I have a 12/13 week old rock bar and her wings on both sides have those upturned feathers at the bottom. Is this normal?

Hello!

Living down in the south, it feels like spring is around the corner. I have made a winter feed mix for my chickens. I was thinking doing the same for the spring/summer feed mix. Does anyone else make their own feed mix for the summer? If so, can you share your recipe? TIA!

When can I start giving my pullets treats? And at that point do they need grit? And favorite chicken treats?

They are approximately 3 weeks old and still in the brooder and terrified anytime I try to bond with or handle them. I see all these videos of chickens running to their owners and I want to live that dream too 🤣

My dear neighbors. Don't Panic.

We need to build community resilience. It is time to start thinking like Cubans before we have to start thinking like North Koreans.

I am a student of history and my calculus shows that when VA Benefit payments, SSDI/SSI payments, Federal Grants and Loans, Native Tribe Payments and other funding fails to show up then we could have rioting in the streets. Which is what they want in order to enact Martial Law.

Please don't wait. Do what you can to increase food resilience now.

Grow a garden. (Potatoes, Corn, Sunflowers, Quinoa or Amaranth, & Beets all grow great here. Quinoa and Amaranth gives greens as well as protein and grows like a weed. Beets give you greens and starches.)

Plant pest resistant fruit trees. Apples, olives, avocado grow well here. Skip citrus if it's not already in your yard; there is a citrus disease going around.

Get your households' 4 legal chickens if you can. Start composting. Composting is Nature's Recycling and provides lots of grubs for your chickens to eat. Learn to reuse water as much as possible. Look into rabbit husbandry.

See if you can stock up on necessary medications. If you rely on medications that you can discontinue then consider whether you should. Don't quit medications without talking to your doctor.

The key is to build a strong community.

Meet your neighbors.

I love you all.

Hi everyone,

We’re new to raising backyard chickens and need some advice. We have two hens, both around 8 months old. One of them had very watery droppings for about a week, but she was still laying eggs during that time. However, over the past week, she seems to have stopped pooping altogether—there’s no droppings where she sleeps overnight—and she has also stopped laying eggs.

She doesn’t appear lethargic, but her appetite has decreased significantly. The only thing she seems interested in eating is dried mealworms. We’ve checked to see if she’s egg-bound but didn’t feel anything, and we also examined her crop, which seems normal (not sour or impacted).

Could this be a parasite issue? Are there any medications or treatments we should try? Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

FYI - the other chicken is completly fine, laying everyday, eating like normal and a lot of poop overnight.

Pic just for show

We have 4 chickens. We recently went away for about a week and in that time my neighbour (and close friend) was looking after them. It's a couple days after we've gotten back and they aren't laying or wanting to go in their nesting box/cage (we put them in at night because of foxes but otherwise they're free to roam our decently large backyard). Does anyone have an idea of what's going on? I'm worried my friend didn't let them out while we were gone (though I'm pretty sure they did) and the water in their cage was tipped over and dry when we got back.

Hi All,

We recently took on some new hens and a roo from some friends who had an excess. His dad is a Silky cross and he is sussex x wyandotte mix. The hens are silky sussex crosses. We have 5 other hylines browns who are my golden girls, they're just at one year, the new birds are all 7 months now. We are trying to integrate, they have had their 30 day quarantine, he is a gentleman with his hens, but the OG girls aren't used to a boy and aren't necessarily receptive. They ignore his tidbit, are peeping and cooing which is new around him, but generally all run away. He's tried to run and mount a couple and Dorothy has had a go at him when he's on one of her girls. Will this settle? The hens have gotten over their hen bust ups and will eat and drink together, otherwise I have to roaming flocks, but the new hen house is only a temporary fixture, I would like to see them all settled. Anything I need to know?

The girls are putting in that work!

This is my first experience with raising chickens, and recently my silkie hen started getting broody and so far has 3 fertilized eggs she's sitting on. They all are only maybe 5 or 6 days old at the most. We've had a pretty unusual heat wave for northern Indiana these past few days so I haven't been concerned about them getting too cold(she hops off them in the mornings to eat and hang out, though sometimes my brahma hen jumps on them for her). But the temps are supposed to jump back to the 30s starting Wednesday, so I am concerned about the eggs getting cold. So what would you reccomend? Should I buy a brooder and take the eggs or just let her keep them and hope they make it?

This evening I was outside giving my chickens scraps and letting dogs go potty. My neighbor was grilling on his porch… he made eye contact with me and then in a low voice said we was grilling my chickens. He repeated it over and over. “I’m grilling your chickens, I’m grilling your chickens…” I just ignored him and called my dog over to me. I’m not sure if not acknowledging him aggravated him… but he then switched to “I’ll grill your dogs too, I’ll grill your dogs, I’ll grill your dogs…I’ll grill you” while maintaining eye contact with me and facing me. For context nobody else was outside with him.

This completely freaked me out and I called the police. I am honestly wondering if that was a Karen move? The officer didn’t seem to take me seriously and told me 1. The man was a guest of my neighbors and 2. “it was a misunderstanding, the guy said he was talking to his kid.” I made it clear to the officer all I wanted was documentation in case he did something.

I did go and take videos as proof of how many chickens I have and have been checking on them every hour. Did I overreact?

For context. We have not had time to put in a fence but I do have a covered run and chicken tunnels. My neighbors porch is maybe 50 feet from my chicken coop. Because my property is deep and narrow (.35 acre). I have never had problems with my neighbors before.