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I'm freaking out here! I've been getting bites... I thought at first mosquitoes, then maybe fleas. But I now believe they are some sort of mite!! Yikes!! I have 5 hens, a dog and a cat. The cat likes to hang out in the yard with the chickens, and then sometimes she'll sleep on the foot...

A friend of mine found a mallard egg on the sidewalk near the pond in her community. The maintenance crew wanted to throw it away, but she grabbed it. Now it's under my broody hen. (Ugh!) Not sure if it's even viable, so this may be a moot point. But if so, what do I do if it hatches? I...

I have 6 almost full grown Black Australorp roosters, that we are giving away. I hatched them on Christmas Day, and they are all very friendly. Two are much bigger than the others, but all of them are still growing. they currently free range in our "urban" backyard for a few hours each day...

My black australorps are now 7 weeks old and I STILL can't tell them apart! Some of the combs are looking bigger, but even the ones with little combs sometimes act funny. Do pullets ever act like roos? I mean, sometimes when I let them all out to free range, they get all excited and a couple...

I'm a total newbie. Don't even have the incubator built yet, but am doing all my research first (that's good right?). We live in suburbia, have a nice sized yard, and have two large, well behaved dogs. Do dogs and chickens ever mix? Will my dogs constantly try to get into the coop? Will...