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I sold my coop and chickens when I sold my house during the divorce. I will be starting over with about 6 hens and a rooster. I have just bought 6 1/2 acres of land in East TX and am getting ready to build a barndominium. I have many trees on my property and I want to put my coop under the...

I have 3 laying hens. They give me 6 eggs/week each like clockwork. 2 brown and 1 green. Yesterday, I only got 2 brown eggs. Today, I found 3 brown and 1 green. One of the brown eggs is smaller than the others. I bought my chicks at the end of February. I bought 2 turkens, 2 BLR...

We bought 5 chicks of varied breeds and they were supposed to have been sexed. Our speckled Sussex had big feet, so we named her Sasquatch and call her "Sassy" for short. Her comb and wattles have come in much faster than all of the other chicks. All of my girls are about 9-10 weeks old...

I'm building my first chicken tractor. I figure it will be ready in about a month. I have an idea of what breeds I like based on pretty colors, egg laying frequency, egg color, and local availability. I figure popular local breeds will do well in my climate. I plan to start out with 4...

Thursday night, I saw a bobcat cross the road in front of me about 100 yards from my house. He ran off into a wooded area near a pond. Our neighborhood is just outside the city limits and everybody lives on 1 acre lots. I texted my closest neighbors with small animals and posted a warning on...

I've seen some tractors with levers to drop the wheels on a tractor to raise it for moving. Does anybody have any good pictures or resources for this? I want to get this straight first before I make the tractor heavy. The tractor will be 4x8 and about 6' tall. I suspect it will be pretty...

I live in NE Texas. Temps vary between occasional teens in the Winter to several days of 100+ in the Summer. I will be beginning construction of the coop soon, but I need to know what breeds handle the heat best or at least what breeds I need to avoid.

The title says it all. I've been a Texan for almost 50 years, but I'm a chicken newbie. I've been lurking and studying coop design and chicken breeds, but I haven't invested anything into this chicken thing yet. I have $300 set aside in my "mad money" place, but I've estimated about $400 to...