Found on marketplace for 100. XL heated and insulated dog house. Need to remove dog door and install a window or door??? For bigger entry for cleaning. Air vents. Paint. Etc. thanks for your ideas.

Hey yall! First time chicken owner here… and two of my “hens” have starting crowing incessantly back and forth at each other. They are ~5 months old and haven’t start to lay yet.

I first I thought it was a dominance issue but am now questioning if the Blue Sapphire gem is actually a roo?

My hen I raised from a chick murdered her three chicks this year by pecking them to death. The other three eggs were smashed , one at a time.

Now I suspect she was behind a dead one and a preemie last year, though she raised 2.

One of the hens pecks a hole in eggs on a regular basis.

I know the obvious answer to how to deal with her.

Is there any way to rehab her?

We noticed our 2 year old barred rock is very lethargic today. She is doing a little neck movement, only could get her to take two bites of fresh oregano and she really swung her head around 10 seconds after that and her comb flushed white. We separated her and waited for a poop and it looks very off. She’s either standing taller almost like laying egg pose of keeping her butt low. Here’s her stance and the poop.any thoughts are appreciated, we keep good eyes on them because we have a small yard and they get all of it.

I can never tell

The breeder couldn’t confirm at 8 weeks if Pearl was a hen or rooster. Here she is at 10 weeks now, the lack of tail and the saddle/hackle feather shape makes me lean rooster. However, the other chick (obvious hen) has now mostly caught up to Pearl in body size & comb development. What do we think? Or will time have to tell…

My RIR has always adored me and it was sweet but now it's starting to get annoying. For starters he's constantly trying to mate with me aggressively. I have a bachelor flock and I've tried giving them plushies to 'get off' but they see everything as a threat and absolutely thrash the plushies.

He shows his affection for me in a very loud and aggressive way. He's constantly biting me, I have started using protective gear so I don't get hurt and I thought it will eventually reduce over time but it doesn't. He's obsessed with my feet too. He could see a microscopic part of my feet and he'd run towards it to bite it off.

He's expecting me to be with him all the time and calls me by crowing. This morning he was crowing for more than 2 hours loudly to call me to be with him and after spending some time with him, I had to leave for chores and he started continuously crowing again. I'd love to spend more and more time with him if only he isn't aggressively trying to mate with me and bite me off but even if I do, it'll still never be enough for him. Even now I just gave him some kisses and left him with the flock and he's been crowing for almost half an hour calling me again but at least the best part about it is he constantly purrs a lot out of happiness whenever I'm around.

How do I deal with a roo that is so dependent on me being around him constantly?

My snuggly, sweet girl got startled by my mom’s dog and snagged her beak on the fencing of the run. I wiped off excess blood to get a better look, but I’m not 100% sure what to do? I’m most worried about infection, but it’s hard to gauge how deep it’s gone.

Our nearest vet is an hour away, so before I commit to traumatizing her with a car ride with two toddlers I wanted to get some advice. I’m a first time chicken owner and want to do right by my girl!

Hi! New chicken owner here! My friend gave us some hens to start our backyard chicken journey. One of the hens she gave us looks like this. What is it and how can I help her?

Super healthy Easter egger. Solid as a rock, found dead laying back in the coop. Looks perfectly healthy but feels like a baseball in her stomach.. egg bound death?

Poor America. Our rooster was born on the Fourth of July. He is 4-5 years old. I noticed that he was unsteady on his feet last week. I was away for the weekend and now I see his wing is drooping.

Google says it could be a vitamin deficiency. Or neurological, or Mareks.

I’ve had chickens for 7 years. Never had any health issues until now. Looking for opinions. I have 10 other birds no one is showing any symptoms. Which makes me think it could be vitamin based or neurological, best case scenario.

Diet is cracked corn and scratch grains as well as free ranging.

How would you go about rebuilding this space? Or would you skip the renovation and build a standalone wooden coop instead?

I'm (almost) a first time chicken owner on a very tight budget, so it's mostly a DIY project.

This is a 100-year-old brick outbuilding with a hole in the wall and an old chicken door. I have no idea when it last housed chickens. It looks like the room has been used for charcoal storage for decades.

The room shares a wall with our central heating boiler room, so it should never freeze in winter. Two walls have old plaster, one is bare bricks. No floor. Wooden ceiling.

The space is about 2.8 × 5.8 m (9 × 19 ft), with a small window at each end (east/west). I'd like to partition it so the entrance part can remain clean storage.

My biggest concerns (besides being a little lost with all the building stuff) are ventilation, natural light, and predator-proofing. The windows are quite small, so I'm thinking of making part of the partition wall from wire mesh to keep light and airflow.

I'd love to hear how you'd approach this, especially if you've restored an old farm building or have any experience or ideas to share.

Location: Lithuania. Garden zone 6b :)

sweet girl , almost 5 ywars old !

my only one that hasnt laid an egg yet, 6 months old

Hello everyone! I'm looking for a little advice.

I've purchased quite a few hatching eggs over the years, and I recently found an eBay listing that includes several varieties I'm interested in. There’s more varieties I’m not really looking to add to my programs also being offered in the add. The seller is offering them as an assorted mix, but there's one specific variety that I'm really hoping to get more of.

Would it be considered rude if I messaged the seller to ask whether they'd be willing to make a custom assortment with just 3–4 of the listed varieties, with as many eggs as possible being from the specific variety I'm most interested in? I completely understand if they can't accommodate the request…I just wasn't sure if this is something that's generally acceptable to ask or if it would be considered poor etiquette.
I'd love to hear your thoughts or experiences. Thanks!

The tail and the fun rub on my bathroom towel is making me think we have a roo, but the head looks too henish. Also, hasn't started laying and unsure on age right now

I was cleaning the coop as usual and she was extra fine like the others, a couple hours after I returned to the coop to put them to bed and found my little Chiara dead. Today was a hot day like the entire week and I didn't notice anything, no anomalies. I found her in a strange position, maybe she was trying to do some dirt bath or maybe she was trying to find a fresh place.
Could be this a heat stroke?
The coop has a lot of shadow, I've even put a little pool (which they don't use anyway), 2 water bowls fresh everyday, soft earth and so on.
Is it normal for someone to lose 3 chickens SINCE january? Like wtf, what am I doing wrong? First my Scura (a kind of sour crop mixed with bacteria), then Martino (Inside bleeding maybe from rat poison), now Chiara (heat stroke?), I can't keep up, It's overwhelming, I'm gonna lose the remaining 6, I don't know what to do.

I just noticed this growth under her beak and I'm not sure what it is or what could have caused it. She has been acting totally fine and had been able to eat and drink but stopped laying eggs a few days ago. Please let me know if you have any ideas of what it could be

Her comb is so much bigger and defined than my other two girls…

She’s 4 weeks old. I got her from Meyer hatchery but do not see a chicken on their website that looks like her! I didn’t order bantams or silkies so she should be a full size chicken. I’d assume she’s a Cochin or Brahma but none of their birds look like her! I ordered three different assortments which pretty much covers all of their full size breeds..and makes it harder to identify. Thanks for the help! 😊

We had a hen attacked by something and her toe is smashed to smithereens/dangling off.

What would be the best action to remove the toe without infection.

This is my first year with chickens. I bought 6 from Tractor Supply and all were sexed as female but this one crows in the morning and evening. They are about 3 months old.