One of my girls is addicted to laying eggs in a chair on my porch. I’ve slowly raised the height of the enclosure to try and keep her safe and I think all I did was progressively train her to clear 6 foot fences.

Aurora is the only hen he hurts, he is extremely aggressive and pecks at her comb even when it’s not mating. All my hens are terrified of him, what should I do?

I’ve separated them from the other chickens, but he gets extremely lonely. I’ve also tried a few things to protect her comb, but he always manages to take them off. This hen is very important to me.

11 week old silkie, I know they are difficult to sex! We are just curious about this little weirdo. Came from TS straight run bin. I’m leaning roo but curious what others think!

Anyone tried this

Does it work?

We gave the girls some cat food as a treat, only for our cat to come right up to the door in confusion as to why they were eating his food! Especially funny as he’s usually too nervous to walk right up to them.

Lost pants to a brutal cat attack, she was left with a broken neck, she'll always be our most darling chicken.

My chickens keep drinking the runoff from our washing machine. Pretty soon, I think they're going to be eating pizza and fighting crime.

Was told they were all hens, but 3 look like rooster. Australorps Bantams 13-15 weeks. Hear one crowing already. I'm crushed so many are roosters i wanted to keep them all. How many roosters do you see out of the 4

I can’t take other photos because it’s dark and I don’t want to wake her up

I have kind of developed a sort of breed, this is the third chicken with this kind of color pattern and I'm really happy about it. I've had chickens for years but I can't wrap my mind around this guy here. It was born the 4th of July (🦅🇺🇸) and at this point the characteristics of a male and female should be more apparent (the comb is not very prominent), a month ago I was 100% sure it was a hen (which would be great), but now with that tail not so much...any thoughts? I am just overthinking it because I really want it to be a female and would love another opinion.

Thanks

I don't own chickens but your subreddit pops up on my feed a lot and you're all adorable. Maybe this tapestry isn't impressive but I adore it and thought it should be shared lol

I was taking pictures of my chickens and somehow caught Mabel (my zombie chicken) mid blink. She fully is embracing and looking the zombie part today.

What names do you think of, except for the chick with big wings, that one is called Angel, but what do you have in mind for the rest?

Our first ever chicks are being delivered next week so I’ve been lurking all the chicken subs. I know that specific subs like these catch a lot of questions just by nature of the sub but it’s kicking my anxiety up that there is just going to be mites and sour crop and egg bound chickens coming out of my eyeballs. How often have you had to deal with sick chickens??

For years, my chickens and I, had a good thing going. At dusk, they go into to their coop, which fits more chickens than exist right now(some have passed RIP).

For whatEVER reason the bantam rooster started to sleep outside on the roof of the coop instead. He is in an enclosed area gated off from predators, so it’s fine to let him stay there. However, it’s about to get COLD (already chilly) and I need him inside where it’s warm.

After a week or so of putting him inside after dark…. A second female bantam joins him?!?! They continue this for a week, now three weeks into this, a THIRD chicken have joined the rebellion... my oliveegger!

I’ve done the following:

A) checked for mites, no one has any pests, and no red coop mites or whatever, I’ve done the tape test and have been scoping out the coop at night, nothing.

B) made sure no bullying is happening (my bantam rooster is actually in charge and bullies all the hens, but generous about sharing snacks… if that makes any sense).

C) have a camera aimed at the coop to see if we get visitors. So far nothing, but the camera is a bit old, and could have missed something.

I’m all out of ideas of what it could be. If it’s a rodent then surely it would go for the food and not harass my sleepy chickens?

First pic is the lil man that started this whole thing. Second pic is from tonight, when three chickens decided to stay outside the coop.

If anyone has any ideas or suggestions, please share them. I’m so sick of carrying chickens into the coop late at night, when I’m tired and ready for bed.

These are our first chicks hatched from our own eggs and we were curious about gender, They are about a month old. We think they might both be roosters but we are newbies!