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Beatrice wasn't very happy... it had been pouring rain and she was in the middle of a molt!

I will try it! Thanks for the heads up!

UPDATE! Our missing hen came back! I was looking out the kitchen window when i see her come strolling out of the garage like nothing had happened! Haha! All is well with the girls... one of ours has some wing feathers missing, but other than being a little tramatized, they will be alright!

This morning, at 4:30, we heard one of our hens being very loud in our garage. I think "well that's funny, she should be asleep right now...", and pondering that, I let our dog out to go check on her. She bolts to the hen house, and I can hear some commotion inside and I too, race to see what is...

I love the first 1 and the one with a bow on it!!! it looks like a purse!!!!

Love your first chicken's feathers!!! It's comb is gnarly too!!!!

My girls, Beatrice and Robin Hood, absolutely LOVE a bowl of warm oatmeal in the morning!!

I have not yet been confronted by the city, my neighbors, or have had any complaints, and my backyard has lots and lots of room for them to run around and, well, be chickens. Though my 14 week old BO started crowing this morning at 5:00 and I have not yet made arrangements for him to live...

Yeah, that's what I was thinking... :'(

I have a 14 week old buff orpington. I was told that it is a hen, but now, I don't know. I thought that I heard it crow, but I was inside at the time, and it may have been my imagination, or the neighbor's chickens. Here are some pictures of it. Please, I need help. If it's a rooster, he will...

I have 1 buff orp., 1 Araucana, and 1 RIR. (names respectively) Buttercup Queen B. Robin Hood, or just Robin

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From what I know, there are not many people that keep chickens in our area. There is a neighbor, however, that has 14+ chickens living in her house. I only have 3. 2 hens and 1 pullet. I absolutely love my new araucana Beata, and RIR Bandit, and my Spoiled Buff Orp. pullet, Buttercup. Gracie, my...

He's not mine, I don't know what he is, but boy is he gorgeous!! I want that roo!