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I had avoided seeing this documentary because I heard it would make me "vegetarian." I should have ignored the ignorant advice. I watched it tonight via Netflix and I will say I will continue to eat meat. I will, however, only buy from a local farmer here in Tacoma. I have a small veggie garden...

Here's what I found after less than 2 weeks of my girls laying. I didn't check for eggs the day before. 6 prefect eggs all in the nest box (I've seen them take turns using it). I even caught this girl turning the eggs . So neat and cute!!! They are 24 weeks old. I am so loving my first chicken...

I can't have roosters where I live so this is what happened to one of them. I paid someone else to process him. He's young at 16 weeks but ended up weighing almost 2 pounds.

Should I be worried? Our chickens are separated only by a wood privacy fence. I have already been using DE everywhere my girls hang out. We checked my girls tonight and so far they are clean. Should I be more liberal with the DE...like putting it along the fence boarder or buy Sevendust? My...

My 3 girls having a dustbath. You can hear their happy noises

I took my boys to a local organic butcher. I saw cages of other birds delivered that day and I am pretty surprised at their condition. They had poopy feathers on their tail feathers. Their butts were red and bald. They looked just plain pitiful compared to my three pretty and clean birds. Are...

I was given a straight run of 6 chicks and we've spent the past 15 or so weeks guessing who the boys are. One BR we guessed correctly because of his quick development of wattles. My mystery chick which has turned out to be a beautiful red EE made his first attempt at crowing at 5:15 this...

I worked a crappy nightshift and was late leaving for home. The I-5 commute was the typical headache. There was a half marathon taking up most of my city and the cops would not let me turn down my street to get home. I was in tears and in a fury. I has hoping my DBF was still in bed because I...

Would it be selfish and costly for this boy to be shipped to me from Tennessee? He's healthy and right at a year old. Thanks

I have no questions. I just wanted to say that the food grade DE is not what I was expecting. It reminds me of flour. I thought it would be more "sandy" in texture. I thought I read that it's good to let the chickens dust bathe in it but obviously I need to mix it in something. I cleaned the...

I went to my mom's in TN for Easter and enjoyed her flock. I didn't appreciate them as much until I got my own and learned about the different breeds. I don't know what she is except she's some sort of fuzzy legged bantam. I loved her! I do know that this girl is an EE. I educated Mom. She...

Eating, laying, pooping ok. These are my mom's hens. I didn't see any bugs but she had recently started dusting them. She bought DE today.

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My straight run was given to me and I was told they think some are RIRs. I really don't care about what they are since I just wanted chickens (I'm a noob). I will have to sent any boys to freezer camp. They are 11 weeks old and one has these poofy cheeks. I think they're really cute :lo The...

Hi all. I just put my babies outside. Their run is small and I want to make the most of the space that's available. I want to buy something already built but I'm overwhelmed at the choices. I think want something that has a 5 gallon water supply on the outside of the run. I'm still using a...

My babies are going on 4 weeks old. My DBF said they are "ugly" now. True, they're not the little round fuzzballs that they once were not too long ago. I still find them cute, nontheless. Everyone likes to post their newborn babies or full feathered beauties. Let me see your "ugly!"

Who has a picture of their chickens as their Facebook profile picture? Me!

They were afraid of it until one of them decided to be brave enough to try it. The DBF calls them savages! www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3vvA1iwO6s

Are there several breeds that have a chipmonk pattern as chicks? I was given my chicks by the neighbor and he's not sure what breeds they are. He mentioned RIR but I don't see that RIR chicks have the chipmonk pattern. 4 of the 6 are large, black, and spotted and he said are probably BRs. The 2...

I am feeding my 3 week old babies other foods besides the chick starter: hard boiled egg, small crickets, and small mealworms. They seem to have a limitless appetite and frankly it's fun to watch them eat these "new" foods. I'm only doing 1 "treat" a day but would like to give them more but want...