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My 3 Rhode Island Reds laid large eggs most of the year and were very friendly. My wife started calling me Elvis with the way the hens ran to see and would swat so I could pet them and pick them up and walk around with them. I told them they had a home with me as long as they lived, a fox took...

I have a small exhaust fan in my chicken coop I run constantly when it gets hot outside. My coop is insulated in the floor, walls and ceiling and it is shaded on the north side by our home to move in fresh air and I have no problems.

I have had pet chickens since I was a child in the late 1950's and early 1960's which were all hens till last year when I hatched two future Bielefelder roosters within 10 minutes of each other. They were best of friends with one definitely being #1 without any problems. I had made the feeder...

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I have 3 Salmon Faverolles hens that were hatched on May 6, 2019 and a Bielefelder hen hatched here on January 1, 2020 and they all stopped laying around the same time and I was wondering if they were doing this because they do not like the big beautiful Bielefelder rooster I hatched April 18...

I shovel some of the snow away so they can come out during the day.

We have had ice first then snow so it is cold outside around 20 degrees at night.

I want my chickens to not be bitterly cold when in their coop. They are use to some heat all their lives till now so I want to still keep the really cold temperature off of them.

My wife never had pets in her life till she married me and I brought my Samoyed, Arno Dog. If it is a chicken I would give the hen a name like Henrietta Cluck with the name so everyone would know I was talking about my chickens. Over our 43 years of marriage she could not believe the off the...

Check out the Great Pyrenees dog breed, my big lovable Great Pyrenees would never harm a chicken or a chick. When I let Schatz (my dogs name, German for Treasure with he is) my little flock of chickens just keep doing what they were doing knowing he will never hurt them.

Thank you, because that is what I have been doing and I was not sure I was doing the right thing.

When I give my small flock treats it seems the rooster cannot pick up the goodies like the hens so I have a small dish I put his goodies in so he can pick at them. Has anyone else noticed this or is it just common with the Bielefelder roosters? My hens can grab the food like crazy but not my...

The first chickens I raised were in our bath tub of our hall bathroom and I hated it because I could not look right in an see them and they had to look up to see me. The chickens I raised in the bath tub are very sweet, happy and lovable but I still did not like it because I wanted to look at...