My 3 year old loves our chickens. She gets up early to let them out and would play with them all day if I'd let her. We hatched them and raised them and she loves them! She helped build the coop And digs up worms for them daily! I'm raising a chicken lady! I love chickens but watching my baby...
I know cedar shouldn't be used in bedding but what about my playground and flower beds? I have to put down playground chips for my daycare as is the state requirement and they want me to use 6" of cedar chips and is the whole perimeter of my yard. My chickens aren't in it but next to it and are...
Ok folks I woke up this morning to our 14 week old buff Orpington singing an egg song and strutting around.seems kinda early. is that a sign that I should move them to layer food? I've always had late bloomers so it took me totally by surprise. Any advice?
I have 3 week old chicks and a brand new coop no adult hens and I was wondering if I could put chicks in coop closed up with a light outdoors and use it as the brooder?
Okay who out there has house chickens and can give some newbies tips about what works and what does not? From diapers to egg laying to inside habitat Lets talk house chickens!!!
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So I am in my late thirties. I have 5 kiddos and a wonderful DH. My DH has been too sick for work and has been a stay at home dad for the last several years. I have no problem being the bread winner I am very ambitious and love coming home to happy kids a clean house and well fed chickens. I...
I have a hen right now whose comb looks all messed up. She has been broody for about a week and yells at all the girls and of course me when we get close. Her comb which was normal and lovely prior to brooding is now looking really gross and it is freaking me out Please help
Okay we have four girls and they free range in our backyard all day. I clean the porch daily and try to rake what i can. I clean the coop regularly (every week) and the yard stinks like bird poo. What can i do to keep the smell down? We are in suburbia and have neighbors whose yard and house are...
What gender is this turkey? It is a little over 2 months. Or is it still too soon to tell. It puffs up a lot but is a sweetheart. It is our alarm system if the chickens escape from the coop. i thought maybe a Tom because it puffs up and attacks new objects and sound the alarm at passing...
One of my girls started yesterday doing the egg song and then this morning singing like crazy again. But no eggs. she does the little funny squat when I pet her, her comb is red as can be and now she is singing the egg song... How much longer?
I am wondering about how long your chickens sang...
We have four pullets that I think are ready to move out of the brooder and to the coop. but they still are pretty young and so I wanted to get some more opinions. We live in Oregon and it is wet, cold, warm, hot ,dry depending on the day and it may do all of the above in a single afternoon...
please advise! We have a brooder box with four 4 week old chicken pullets and we just got a new turkey poult. we have the turkey in a different brooder in the same room next to chicken brooder. i think the turkey is fine but there is some red or pink in the stool. I want to make sure 1. that is...
We went to the feed store today to grab some grit for our littlens and as always we go look at the chicks. There was a man there trying to ask what kind of chickens each tub held and wanted to know which breeds were good layers and hearty for winter etc... I was standing next to him listening to...