I would make them into a broth or bone broth and can them all up in my pressure canner but I don't want to do the slaughtering and preparing of them. 80% of the eggs in two batches hatched into roosters. I was just going to keep them and pay for the feed with all flock and oyster shells for the hens. It's 5 hens and 10 roosters, it was 11 but one got out and I couldn't catch it and figured the heck with it. They grab a hen and drag her under them to mate and sometims two try to mate the same hen at the same time. I'ts kind of wild. The roosters are nice to me though and never attack or bother me at all. Maybe keeping one or two that behave the best would be worth it.

There might be a local person that would agree to do it for me but I don't know if that's even an option still. Anyone been in this situation before?

I have 0 blue or green eggs the past week

Chicken arrived looking very different than advertised. Missing a lot of feathers! Will be asking for a refund!!!

Lmao jokes aside, it’s molting season y’all! Some of our feathered babies are getting hit HARD so don’t forget to shower them with extra protein and extra love! 💕

Context: chicken #1 just finished molting, chicken #2 is in the middle of her molt.

I have heard from some news outlets that there is a Suoer El Nino forming, which will raise temperatures down here in Australia. This has concerned me and raised my anxieties on keeping my birds safe and cool. I love my birds to death, and i know that I should keep them in shade and with water at all times. However, I'm scared it wont be enough to help, what els can I do and/or what would lessen my anxiety? Thank you!!

Someone PLEASE help me. I am going to lose my entire flock. I am so upset right now. My absolute favourite hen is sick right now.

Yesterday I had a hen who had the exact same symptoms and I found her dead. Please someone help me. I don’t know what to do

-lethargic, depressed. Not doing anything when free ranging.
-runny, whitish/yellowish poop, all down back feathers
-standing still all day.

Please. My 6 month old hen died and now my 1.5 year old has the same symptoms. I don’t want to lose them.

She laid an egg today.

Custom coop build. Originally built for ~$1200 but easily over $2000 after rebuilding the run with hardware cloth and a roof, adding automatic door, and 200W solar panel on roof that powers lights and a fan. Roof on coop is shingled. There is a hatch to access the nesting boxes on the back and the nursery area under the coop I mostly use to extend my run area. Run has hemp bedding. Coop has sand. Homemade feeders and outlet nearby for water heater.

So a friend of mine gave me 3 chickens for free and now Im realizing I have no idea what I'm doing lol.Never raised chickens before and im stressed about keeping them safe and making sure I'm doing everything right. My neighbor suggested putting a camera near the coop so I can check on them especially at night and when im at work. Thats sounds like a good idea but I m not sure if it's really necessary or just another thing to worry about. 1.Anyone here use cameras for their chickens? 2.Are they worth having as a beginner? 3.Any tips for someone completely new to this would be appreciated.

Hello!

I've had my chickens for almost 4 years now and I've run into a situation where in the next year I won't be able to keep them. They have been amazing layers for the past 3 years and I would hate for them to end up with someone who doesn't appreciate that (uses them for food).

I wanted to see if there are any fellow chicken keepers in the south Florida area that would like to enrich their current flock? I am not selling, just hopefully finding a nice home.

I have 5 hens, “Easter Eggers”.

Most of my questions are stated in the video!
But as a summary, I was wondering, how different in size would seramas be versus my current bantams.
I would like to get some, but I have a hard time conceptualizing a chicken smaller than this.
If anybody owns some, I would love some photos for comparison!

Bigfoot hurt his right thigh or hip so now he’s in the healing cage. Neither him or his wife are too pleased about the situation. I don’t mind if she sleeps beside him but when she jumps on top, she be pooping on him lol.
Don’t worry, I’m gonna add a trash bag on top tonight so that doesn’t happen.

I apologize for the multiple posts. I wanted to include this photo because I feel it’s an important add on, but wanted to ensure I could keep the NSFW tag as per the rules so I made a new post.

I had a lethargic hen pass suddenly. Her only 2 symptoms were being depressed/off to the side, and runny white/yellowish poops. She was like this for about 24 hours then passed. I felt I didn’t even have a chance to figure out what was wrong with her.

If you saw my erratic/panicked post earlier this afternoon, you’ll know I now have another hen exhibiting the same symptoms a day later. Just now (8pm), I went to check on her in the coop and noticed what looks like a soft egg shell hanging from her vent. I examined it a bit to make sure whatever it was wasn’t connected to her, then lightly pulled it and it popped right out. This is a Noiran hen, she lays dark chocolate eggs, so this is presumably the membrane and not so much the actual soft shell (given the white colour). She had already laid an egg today, her usual massive one, probably a double yolker like the queen she is.

I am going to call the vet tomorrow morning because I’d like to know what this mysterious illness is… unless I just happened to have two egg bound hens in 24 hours. Which is super odd.

I would greatly appreciate any recommendations for nutritious foods and snacks that can support healthy growth and strength developments.Your suggestion would be of great value. Thanks in advance.

This is my first time having a flock of chickens. I so badly want to give my feather babies a healthy and happy life. I vaccinated for Marek’s and will do New Castle bronchitis as well as fowlpox when they are a bit older. I’d feel more at ease having a chicken first aid kit on hand because I know illnesses are bound to happen. What would you recommend I add to this kit?

Closing the girls for the night, this idjit was stuck on the wrong side of the gate.

Found this morning One of our hens has a nasty wound she is still laying eggs but this wound looks super rough I won’t post pictures here but she seems to be acting normal and all so we have her isolated in my garage with her own coop food and water and coop we are flushing her out with saline and applying iodine and hoping she recovers she is alert eating and acting completely normal after the first application the wound looked dry and alittle crusty

Hi everyone,
I have several chickens that are around 5 months old, and all of them have been sneezing and have runny noses.
They are all still eating and drinking normally and don’t seem particularly tired or lethargic. However, one of them has very strange, noisy breathing, which worries me.
As the weather has been getting colder, I made sure they slept in the enclosed part of their coop because they usually preferred sleeping in the area that is more exposed to the outdoors.
I’m worried they might have a respiratory infection, and I’m also concerned about avian flu.
Has anyone experienced similar symptoms with their chickens? What could be causing this, and what would you recommend I do?
Thank you for any advice!

Im shocked it actually worked. Think ill quit my job and sell them on the internet haha

Something got to my 2 year old Plymouth Rock and I cannot even retrieve the body as it's awardly trapped under something. The chick that I was integrating (8 weeks is missing). All in day time.

We already had a mink attack so surely it was that fucker again.

RIP

I lost my flock back in May to a fox and I’ve been rebuilding and reinforcing my coop and enclosure ever since. I finally was ready to get some new hens and my boss overheard that I was looking for hens and he had these 4 pullets that he hatched from his backyard flock. I have no idea what breeds he has and I’m sure they’re all mixtures but I just wondered what you all think if you had to take a good guess?

He’s a pretty great boss. I offered to take some older girls off his hands and instead, he gave me these girls after he and his wife raised them all summer. They’re beautiful! I’m just curious as to what breeds you all think they are?

Also- OBSESSED WITH THE BLUE ONE!!!

MoMA chicken and tiny baby quails, she is such a gentle mother 😊

I can’t get this drinking container to contain it’s water. Always start dripping out. The yellow straw is waterproof and I screwed the upper lid super tight.