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Update: her eye looks terrible and she's probably blind, but she's back to acting normal.

So this morning, my smallest chicken survived a hawk attack. She's 3 years old and I'm pretty sure she's now blind in her right eye, which I think is the eye that she used to see things up close. After being frozen for a few minutes, she started walking around. I threw her favorite food in...

For what it's worth here's my experience with pastured chickens, mostly prevention over curing serious diseases: -They're healthier when I switch from throwing feed in the grass (I thought this was more "natural") to putting their feed in chicken feeders. That way they got more grit (very...

I'm sad to say that my 5-year-old Isa Brown died today. She had a bad winter molt and was a little off for the past months, and barely ate the last 5 days. I thought I felt an egg down at the bottom of her body below her butt, so tried to gently massage it up to her butt last night and gave...

Incredible build. One tip: if the overhang ventilation has large gaps, hardware mesh would add extra security against possoms or other small predators.

Chickens poop a lot overnight, and it's unhealthy for them to breathe all that ammonia. Adding only height to that coop with 4 pieces of ply wood would be a huge improvement so that you can add air holes 2-feet above their heads, which would let air out without any cold air "hitting" them.

You should be able to sell off roosters for $30. Most people I've sold roosters to had small backyard female-only flocks, and wanted to add a rooster as a predator-alarm.

You can with a broadfork and a whole lotta free time