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Two ten week old Easter Eggers (black Ameraucana crossed with RIR), same hatch, May 13. I'm 100% sure Fred is a roo. It's the smaller one, Ted, I'm not sure of. They do fight with each other, though not with any other birds--including the pullet that's almost their size. Ted's beard and muffs...

At what age do young roosters start to fight? I have two six week old EE peeps of uncertain gender, and whatever they're doing to each other looks an awful lot like cockfighting.

I have three chicks in with the rest of my flock and they have got lice, bad. I am dusting with DE today and cleaning the coop top to bottom on Friday. If I get Sevin, is it okay to put on the chicks? The nits seems to be concentrated on their poor little heads.

My Leghorn just hatched three eggs. She's taking very good care of the babies but I do have some questions. I have (medicated) chick feed out for them but the adult hens peck at it a little too; is this okay? Will their eggs be okay to eat? Conversely, will the chicks will be okay if they snack...

One of my hens, either an RIR or my Partridge Rock, has been laying fart eggs for about a month now. they have yolks, they're just really tiny. What could be causing this? Hens are full grown, no signs of molting. Part of me hopes it's my mean Red so I can have an excuse to eat her.

They're both visible from space! In the most recent Google satellite picture of my farm, the coop is clearly visible. I can even pinpoint the month in which the picture was taken by the position of the run (and the location of two bags of alpaca manure which it took me forever to move...)...

I know a chicken will only lay one color of egg her entire life. But is it possible for one hen to have some variation within that color, day to day? I have an EE that just started laying a month ago, a nice pale robins' egg blue. I also got an Ameraucana last week and haven't expected eggs from...

Have you ever trained your chickens to do something? On purpose, I mean. Them learning what the treat bucket looks like does not count.

I had chickens as a kid and have spent my whole adult life trying to get back to that lifestyle. Last spring my husband, daughter and I moved up to a little farm in PA and got busy! In July with the help of my father in law we built a little 4x4 coop and painted it the same blue as our house. My...

My husband told me a few weeks ago that a male ringnecked pheasant calls the overgrown area behind our barn "home." Says he's seen him in the pasture a few times. I've looked and looked--I love birds of all kinds, wild and tame--but never seen him. I was aching to see this bird. Yesterday as I...

I have an acre pasture and a little barn, enough space for two or three goats. Problem is, I don't know what kind to get! Pygmy goats just for pets? A farm not too far from here has cashmere goats and I'm tempted to spend the extra to get them; theoretically I could sell the fiber to make up for...

Hi all, I'm a newbie homesteader in southern Pennsylvania. We moved here from an apartment in Baltimore last spring--me, my husband, and our little girl. We had a garden a week after we moved to our little farm--I didn't want to wait any more! Chickens came over the summer. We just have eight...