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Found a chicken dead this morning. She was by the pop door in the coop, spread with a wing out. For several weeks, it's looked like she was molting, or about to start. She had lost some hair on her head, and looked like she'd lost and replaced some feathers on her back. I inspected her for...

I'll start by saying I've just spent a few hours reading frostbite posts, and am just not sure they answered my questions. Generally they say to keep them dry and well ventilated, I think I'm doing these things, but maybe with specific photos someone can help me further and point out specifics...

Hello. I currently have thirteen 22-week old chickens, mostly plymouth rocks but 4 silkies as well, in an 8x8 coop and 10x20 roofed run. I'm thinking of constructing an arctic entry for their pop door which is currently just a hole with ramps on either side. At one point I had a door on it...

There are a few silkies in my flock of 11 week olds that I can't tell the sex of yet. The only one of my white ones that doesn't show any streamers yet (and I'm really hoping is a pullet) was pecking a little silkie cockerel (currently the only one crowing, so the dominant one) when he comes...

I have two Partridge Plymouth Rock pullets from McMurray. I guess there is always a chance that a pullet is really a roo. She hasn't showed any roo-like behavior, but her comb and wattles are just SO much more developed than anyone else's. The photo below is the only one (blurry) that I have...

Found one of the white silkies with bloodied and broken back pin feathers this afternoon. I'd noticed a bit of pecking at each other now and then, but it never seemed vicious. The flock of 15 have been in the coop for just about a week. Coop is 8'x8', and so I can't really assume...

We're constructing a run that is 24' long by 10' wide. We're building it out of treated wood, and would like to cut the stuff as LITTLE as possible. Do we have to cut birdsmouths out of the 2x4x12s that will be spanning the 10' side? Can we get away with rafter/hurricane brackets? The run...

We've almost finished our coop, with the exception of needing more trim and hardware cloth over the glass windows, and the siding. Run will extend out towards this direction from the coop, this is an old picture of the coop construction, but gives an idea where the run will be located (post...

Greetings! I'm new to the forum and looking for coop-building advice! The plan is to convert an old shed to the new coop. Problems arising with this idea are that I got about 3x the number of birds I originally wanted (but couldn't be happier about it), and the shed is not in particularly...

Hello from Palmer Alaska! I've used this site a bunch planning my flock, and now that the chicks are here it was time I joined up. I have 15 chicks total (3 white silkies, 3 buff silkies, 3 light brahmas, and 2 each buff rocks, barred rocks, and partridge rocks). I had only planned 6 or so to...