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We have 6 chickens (3 rhode island red and 3 ameraucanas) who just all started laying in the past month and a half. A few months ago the local grocery stores had lots of sales on corn, so we would buy some and give the ladies an ear a day as a treat. About 3 weeks ago we switched them to a...

We originally were going to convert an old single stall horse barn into a giant coop, but weather, my husband work schedule and cost all worked against us and the ladies were quickly running out of room in the brooder so we ended up just building a smaller A frame structure instead. Costs us...

We had finally had some warm weather and I needed to change the brooder bedding so I figured why not take the girls outside to play in the grass! All we had to contain them were some dirtbike tires (we have hawks like crazy so I don't trust them to free range yet) and our dog decided they were...

We just got our first chicks, 6 total, and they're currently in a 50gal storage container in our basement. We have a heating lamp on one side and noticed that they wont leave the area under the heat lamp, even to eat or drink (we pushed everything closer to the lamp as soon as we noticed and...

Just brought home our first 6 chicks yesterday (3 Ameraucanas and 3 Rhode Island Reds) When we decided to get chicken, we originally said no more than 4. Then we got to the store and thought, "oh, our coop (when finished. Its an old single stall horse barn) will be huge so maybe 6 chickens...

Hello everyone! I hail from Missouri (about an hour outside StL) and we are going to be getting some chickens hopefully soon! We have been wanting to do this for years, but never seriously started looking into it until recently. We are possibly moving soon (hopefully we'll know within the...