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About 3 weeks ago I posted a thread on dealing with raccoons - since then, I've trapped 2 additional raccoons and last night, had very clear evidence of another in my chicken areas. I have a 55 gal plastic drum that I keep feed in, the lid was off this morning and a small bucket containing meal...

Some background - I recently lost an EE pullet due to excessive bullying from a RIR. I was absolutely devastated, I've noticed the RIR being a bully, frankly an outright hateful bird at times. After the loss of my EE, I had decided to process the RIR this weekend when I process the extra...

I've thought about retiring from my regular job and starting up a dating service for chickens. Financially, I'm worried .. I'm just not sure if I'll be able to make hens meet...

One of my neighbors is a sweet little 93 year old lady. She was telling me that it seems every morning, she has to clean up a mess on her back porch. She keeps a plastic bucket full of black oil sunflower seeds on the porch, and each morning it's on it's side with a mess of seeds laying on the...

I'm worried about EE pullet, her name's Thelma and she's 10 months old. When I got her, she was a special case; she'd been picked on by an aggressive Roo and had a sore on her back. That was on March 3rd of this year. The spot has since healed nicely, and of course no feathering yet as she...

Ok - can anyone identify this little guy? I have to admit, I'm a bit perplexed!

I've got 5 chicken eggs that were 22 days this morning at about 9AM CST. I've got good temps, good humidity - but still not seeing any real movement or hearing anything and am concerned. I don't want to open the incubator to check on them - am trying to be patient, just my first time hatching...

I recently bought 5 2-week old chicks from a very nice lady at Whiskey Creek Farms here in Kentucky. They are the cutest little blue partridge brahma's you've ever seen! As a gift, she gave me 6 hatching eggs to take home. Of course, I've never hatched an egg - so the "gift" resulted in...

After reading others success here at BYC, I bought one of the Duke Dog-Proof traps and set with marshmallows. This morning my dog was sounding the alarm at the back fence behind the chickens - and there was my first catch. Looks to be about a 4 month old raccoon. I'll be resetting the trap...

Just wanted to post - I ordered 10 chicks from Mt Healthy in Ohio, for a small order the shipping was VERY good! I paid a total of 50.00 to have the 10 chicks shipped via USPS, they were hatched at 10AM on Tuesday, and my post office called me at 7 AM on Thursday saying they had some chickens...

Howdy - I'd love to add one or two of these sweet ladies to my flock. I'd prefer hens 3-4 months or older and am not against a mature girl :)

Howdy All, Just started with a flock of lovely pullet's today. I've have 5 lovely ladies to include a Rhode Island Red named Henrietta, an Easter Egg named Esther, a Golden Comet named Haley, a Silver Laced Wyandotte named Lacey, and a Buff Orpington named Goldie. All made it into their new...