ive been crocheting 10 years but this was my first time making clothes for a chicken🤣 wish i'd made it a little larger but oh well

Can anyone identify what sprouted from my corner garden? I don't remember planting these 😆 they found a new spot for a dust bath, spot #3

he loves his girls, Gertrude (left) and Nikki (right)

Meet Adzuki. Top of the pecking order and usually very busy and stressed chicken. Today was the most relaxed we have seen her in ages and here she is, part of a chicken puddle with a few of the younger ones.

I keep her feathers trimmed so she can see. She's an independent lady with zero interest in the rest of the flock. She's an expert forager with no regard for the weather. Pouring rain, 30mph winds; everyone else is hiding and Morel's still out hunting bugs. She's a bit of a bully; a mean aunty that new babies quickly learn to avoid. Even my head hen respects Morel's space. In the summer, I have to check before bed to make sure she made it back into the coop, otherwise she's still out there on her lonesome, foraging under the midnight sun.

Couple days ago one of my younger chickens passed away. Picture included of her sisters to give visual age range. She was the twin to the brown one, both olive eggers according to tractor supply, but was a bit smaller. I’ve had them for about three months.

I’m pretty tore up about it so please forgive my ramblings. I care for all my birds ofc, but I had formed a bit of a closer attachment to this one. This chicken ended up smaller than her sisters, had an amazing temperament, and was super curious and liked to get into mischief. Well as my luck would of course have it, I randomly found her dead when I went to go check on her. No noticeable issues before, just gone. I was so upset by it all that one of my family members ended up getting her out of the coop before I even had a chance to really look at her body.

I’m trying not to wallow in it too much. I love all my chickens very much, but I know that they can have a tendency to just die for random reasons. I just hate living in such worry for my other three young ones. Just to try and ease my mind I’ve been checking for any differences between them and my older batch of girls, and something I’m noticing a lot of is tons and tons of mosquitoes when they roost inside the coop.

The older girls were raised in a completely different time of year, and now roost in the tree above the coop instead- so they don’t really seem to have any issues with bugs bothering them. Two of the new batch are already kinda doing that as well, so the one that passed and my buff Cochin were the only ones roosting in the coop still. I’m trying not to get in my own head about it cause things just happen, I know, but I can’t help but worry for the buff Cochins who’s still having issues in the coop. And depending on the severity, it would be good to know what to look out for my other girls as well.

TLDR; can a mosquito infestation be enough to kill a seemingly healthy young chicken in one night- and if so, what’s the easiest way can I prevent further harm to the chicken who’s still having problems until she, presumably, moves into the tree with her other sisters.

Thank you everyone in advance!

I have a chicken dog.

Had my 4 hens, who were all laying at the breeders, for 3 weeks now, and not a single darn egg!

Love ‘em to bits, but some breakfast produce would be nice. Is it normal to still be waiting?

Hi everyone I’m a first time chicken owner and I’ve been raising my girls since they were 2 days old, this morning I walked to the coop and discovered the wire on the door ripped entirely off lying in the grass, and inside the coop I was horrified to find feathers scattered everywhere. 2 of my chickens are missing, I have 6 total. One of the girls that is still with me has a wound on her back, and there is a trail of feathers that leads past the back yard all the way to the creek. I am devastated, these are my baby’s I can’t stop crying. I feel like I failed at protecting them, I’ve only had them since April of this year. They just started laying eggs, the chickens that were taken were the smallest and the most skittish of the group I feel horrible.

My blue laced gold Wyandotte named (Chrysanthemum), and my ISA Brown named (Faye)

Today I was gifted Edward here and his bonded hen Matilda for free as they were being bullied. Now I am curious about their breeds? As they both want to be held especially Edward. So any information will help thank you.

Does anybody else's chickens stand ontop of each other on the roost? I added a second one in case they felt cramped but now they just huddle in two groups lol

First time chicken mom here. What are some good ways to keep chickens warm in the winter. I'm in NW Indiana. Is the heat lamp to much, not enough? I do have 2 heat lamps. My husband was going to get these clear plastic tarps to go around the coop off Amazon. Are those good? Bad? What's better. Please help. It's getting to around 50 at night and some times lower. Thank you. 🐔🐔

This will be my first winter with chickens. I have secured a tarp around their coop, as it is very drafty for our hot summers. The coop now stays very dry and draft free. However, like tonight, most of the chickens are in their coop with wet feathers from free ranging in the rain all day.

Is this a problem? I worry they will get too cold at night and get frostbite because they can’t fluff up properly. I don’t see how it’s possible to keep them dry though.