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I am hoping to be living in a place where I can finally have chickens again and might only need to build a fenced in run. what is the cheapest/best thing to use for this? I will probably will be going 25'x25' feet or so, maybe larger. I don't think there is a problem with predators where I plan...

I am interested in getting back into chickens, does anyone have hatching eggs near Cecil County, MD, New Castle or Kent County, DE?? I am looking for EE's, Olive eggers, (blue, black, or splash) Jersey Giants, maybe a sex link. . featherless leg breeds please I can come pick them up once I get...

Hopefully in several months I will be ready to have some chickens again and was wondering if there were any breeders near DE? If so. . what breeds?

I ended up having to get rid of my flock 4 months ago due to some financial-job-relocating reasons, and am just now finally back on the site. Its feels great to hear and see chicken talk again. I guess I dont fit the typical chicken owner stereotype so none of my friends get it. . . I am...

If so, what do you have? Where are you located?

I am wanting to hatch out some meat birds and am wondering how to find some eggs for them close to where I live. I have been noticing the farther the shipping distance, the lower the hatch a rate. I am in Front Royal, Va 22630

This little guy came from eggs I hatched out from Soaring Hawks Farm in WV, VERY GOOD bloodlines they breed!! This guy looks amazing so far, alot more blue than red right now. Hatched out Feb 24th 2012. Very friendly, VERY healthy/strong, growing fast!

Got all 4 walls up, and door framed in. Just need to cover inside and outside of the walls and put roof on. Than its to building nest box setup, and sleeping roost area. The hard part is about done :) Oh I also need to cut the 4x4 thats in the front left corner off flush with the top.

My two 5 week old jersey giant chicks. . one blue, one black/blue splash. I think the blue one is a roo, and the splash a pullet. I am just going off the combs, and that the blue one is already red where the waddles will grow and the splash has no color change, and minimal comb growth. Good...

96"(8ft) by 80"(roughly 6.5ft) and 80" tall. Plastic pallet floor. I have an exterior door I am installing on the open walled side, than I will put in the rest of that wall, and ceiling. Install 3 nesting boxes and sleeping quarters, than fence in the approx 50ft by 50ft run area. I have a...

Here is the floor done and bottom half of 3 walls. Floor is plastic pallets. its on 4" by 4" legs to level it since I live on the bottom of the Mt. Its coming along pretty easily now. I am going to put one more pallet high for the walls. making it like 7ft tall

I have two 6.5 week old EE's that I hatched out, from diff hens eggs. One is all black(feathered in slow), and the other all sorts of colors. The black ones comb started turning red at like 2.5 weeks old so I assume a roo. The other one which looks to have some buff, red, black, grey all mixed...

My little guy was crowing this morning after I got up, he heard me and the dog up and he started crowing to alert the crew lol Sounded hilarious. My wife even got up wondering what the sound was. Sounded like the cat dragged something in and it was dying. Wife thought something got in the...

trying to figure out the best and cheapest place to purchase day old meat birds, I am guessing cornish x because of the FAST growth? I would really like to pay around $1 per bird of possible. And I dont need a large qty, at most 25. I live in Front Royal Va

I am in need of 2 saddles to save my hen's backs/shoulders. they are getting thin in a few spots so I want to allow the feathers to grow back while I have some more pullets growing up so that my Rooster has more than 2 hens to choose from. Let me knw what you got! I need these asap!

My EE chick from first hatch, a yellow/dark chipmunk stripe one was born with yellow legs that turned to grey after 3 days or so I think. In my 2nd hatch, from 2 days ago, the 2 yellow EE chicks have yellow legs, the rust color/chipmunk stripe one had legs already grey for the most part. How...

I had an egg pip yesterday sometime, It was pipped when I got home from work. It has yet to do anything since then, its been between 18-24 hours since the pip. A small piece of shell is off so I can see the membrane is broke through so if its alive it should be able to breath. last night I was...

2nd hatch attempt, first try was 2 out of 8(on shipped eggs, 3 should have hatched but I have a feeling that my opening the incubator to get the first 2 chicks out caused the 3rd to not get out of the shell, because once I cracked it open on day 25 it was dead but clearly made it to day 20 or...

I am looking for some pallet coop or regular coop plans to house up to 12 chickens that have the materials needed list too. i am trying to build one thats 6' x 6' or 7' x 7' and I am using pallets, and want to be able to build this as cheaply as possible. Anybody got anything to share with a...