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This is from last year's batch of chicks. One of them is half white. Any ideas why? Album: http://imgur.com/a/FrGWo As long as she lays eggs (which she does, I think), I don't really care, but I'm just wondering why/how this happened.

If he sees any chicken, no matter how young, he'll chase it down and mate with it. I'm not even sure if he knows it's a male or not. I'm in a very tough position here. Here are the facts, the story, and the situation. I have a horrible hawk problem that steals my free range chickens (esp. my...

It first started with just a few, which I separated, but I guess it was too late, as it started spreading in the main coop. Some of them do have a discharge from the nose. The chickens that have it have a smell that's not too strong. I read that coryza has a horrible smell, but I can't say this...

I've got an uncovered run that is sloped a bit too much--from past experience, putting any kind of material on a sloped area where there are chickens, they end up kicking it all down the slope, leaving the top exposed. There's bare earth there, and I'm not sure if there's anything I can do to...

I have a flock of 20 banties, but unfortunately I can't free range them since hawks always pick them up. I want to experiment with some full sized chickens and let them free range all day, and see if they won't be picked up. Here are the characteristics I'm looking for: Main priority is a...

I've got myself a problem, it seems, with my roosters' legs. I have 4 roosters and 17 hens as of now (and a bunch of chicks), but it looks like most of the problems are in the roosters' legs only, especially one of them. There seems to be outgrowths on their legs--scaly and large. This seems to...

I've been reading up on how to make soybeans safe for poultry's consumption, and it seems the most surefire way is to ferment them. Supposedly even heating it doesn't completely make it safe. I'm looking for the cheapest way to give my chickens the protein they need, and soybeans seems to be...

Not sure exactly what happened. There could be a number of factors, but I don't have enough knowledge to make conclusions. 1. The light made about 95 degree temperature, with lower temperature all around it in case they got too hot. 2. They were varying ages, one was a week old (he died 3 days...

Thanks to this community as well as other sources, I had made a plan on how to give the exact right nutrition to my birds. I bought organic grains that I would mix myself, knew the exact amount to mix together, and how to prepare it. A month or later, I got my chickens and completely forgot...

I see a lot of plans for the chicken coops that have panels/flaps that lift up for easy egg collecting. Is this necessary? I'm building a fairly large coop and didn't plan such an opening and would like to just have 12 nests line a 12-foot long wall. I plan on just entering the coop and reaching...

I'm choosing an area for my chicken coop, and I have two good options: I can build the chicken coop adjacent to the workshop walls (if it'll be heated in winter, it'll provide some warmth to the chickens, but I heard they're cold tolerant anyway). The downside I'm thinking of is that the...

What's an easy way to roast the soybeans before I give them to my chickens? Can I just put them into a huge pot and boil them, and if so, for how long? Would that be enough for same consumption by the chickens? Thanks!

I'm planning on getting around 30 bantam chickens soon (and that number will continuously increase). I know people like doing stuff the easy way with little chicken tractors and mini houses on wheels, but I can't see those solutions working with a large flock. Most of those chicken houses can...

I'm doing a bunch of research about mixing my own feed (I'm doing this to keep it organic and cheap at the same time). I need some advice, though. I found an organic supplier not too far from me that sells organic grains, plus cracks and mixes them if people want chicken feed. Now, I know...

I'm planning on having open-range chickens and need to know about organic grass. I tried searching Google for this info but couldn't find any info. One person in the local coop store said that the grass most grass seeds are from was most likely grown with chemicals, but by the time they were...