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How do you get started showing chickens? We have pet chickens from mypetchicken.com and meyerhatchery.com. How do you know if you get one that is worth showing?

I'm writing an article for our local paper and was wondering where I could find some extra info. How many people visit the site each week? How many active members are there? How many posts are on the forum? I'm sure that's going to be a lot! Anything else I need to know?

I have a meeting with our Mayor tomorrow afternoon. I wanted to help educate him on keeping backyard chickens. I emailed him the other day after a new article came out about our town voting down a really good chicken ordinance but saying a couple in a residential area could have 16 horses. (I...

I've put Nugget in Solitary Confinement because she's gone broody. She is a Silkie and was laying like a champ, then bam, nothin'! All she wants' to do is sit in the nest box. I've tried putting a bag of ice under her, she tried to hatch it. I tried locking her out of the coop, But the other...

My little silkie, Nugget, seems to have laid 7 eggs this week! Is this even possible?! I only have 1 silkie and her eggs are very different from the other girls so it's easy to tell them apart. How many eggs do your silkies lay?

Where would one start looking for a secret egg stash? I don't know if anyone has laid an egg yet but I have a sneaking suspicion that Tinkerbell may have. She's been acting different and she squats for me. I even felt her rear to see if it felt different than the other chickens' and it does. The...

I'm thinking of converting my Rubbermaid shed into a Chicken Coop. I have 5 hens right now, they are in a tractor/ark thing now but I don't think it's quite big enough. I would love to hear what you guys have done with the Rubbermaid Sheds. Pictures would be even better! Thanks!

I have 5 hens about 10 weeks old. They all want to squish into one nest box to sleep, we have 2. They are not small girls (well, Nugget is) so I'm afraid someone is going to get hurt or over heat. Is it ok for them to be sleeping in there? Will it change once the egg laying starts? Thanks!

My girls have BIG lumps on their chests. I'm a city girl and have never been around chickens. I don't know if this is normal or not. The girls have been in the coop/ run for a few days since it was so rainy and we couldn't play outside. Today was the first nice day, so they got to run around...

Well... My girls are spending their first night in the coop. I'm pretty nervous about it but they should be fine. We live in the middle of town for cryin' out loud! Sure, they're 8 weeks old but they're still my babies!!

When my girls are ready to go to the coop full time I'm supposed to keep them in there for 3-4 days. But is that in the roost area only or the whole tractor. They go in there during the day but I bring them in the house at night. They don't seem to want to go to the upper part of the tractor and...

Do you let your dogs and chicken hang out together? Today was the first day that the girls got to spend the whole day outside. The coop was serviceable, no doors, windows, or nest boxes yet, but it was safe. I'm a little leery of letting the chickens out in the yard with the dogs out. Well...

Oh how they change!

I just got chicks this week, all are doing well. I have one girl, Kevin, who has a poopy behind all the time. I have to clean her hiney at least once or twice a day. She is the only one having issues like this. She is a Silkie so I don't know if that has anything to do with it. The rest of them...

I just got my girls today. Do you have any tips for a first time Chicken Mommy?

I just got my girls today. Do you have any tips for a first time Chicken Mommy?

I'm a first time Chicken Mommy! I just got my order of chicks today I got 2 Partridge Silkies, 2 Silver-Laced Wyandottes, and a Buff Orpington. I was supposed to get 2 but they only sent 1. I'm so excited about them!! I wad going to post a photo but it won't let me since I'm brand new here