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We’re starting up our flock again, and absolutely don’t have time to build a decent coop. I notice that several folks have bought these - how was your experience? How is it holding up?

I've noticed over the last few months that our coop smells pretty bad. We clean, and move them around, and they were wormed last month: still really stinky poo. Is this indicative of either parasites or bacteria? Thx!

Hi all; I'd like to let our small flock out (when the flower beds are grown enough to withstand all the scratching), but here's my problem: when the hens see me, they come running for food. When the rooster sees me, he comes running to kick my kneecaps, right behind the hens. I don't want to...

2 of our six hens became fox meat this evening. I hadn't been letting them out that much, but lately they'd really been enjoying it. We left them out when we went in to dinner, and when we came back, there were a few piles of feathers. Sad. OTOH, it was the oldest and the weakest. The...

I know that turkey vultures are generally not predatory, but we have a gang this afternoon, swooping around the yard. The yard is surrounded by woods, and the chicken tractor is near one edge right now. I don't smell anything majorly dead, and I can't tell what they're focusing on. I put the...

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It wasn't as hard as I thought it would be, on a lot of levels. (of course, there's always the after-shock. I'm feeling a bit trembly after doing the preliminary butchering - Sweetie's finishing up making parts) First we assembled our gear: table in yard on sawhorses, pot of scalding water on...

I'm looking for 2 started pullets, near central MD