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Having had Rhode Island Reds for a few years now, we branched out and got 3 Plymouth Rocks, a Black Rock and a Delaware, to go with our 5 RIRs. After a bit of initial upset, most seem to be laying regularly, though we never get 10 eggs from our 10 hens in one day. I don't mind if they don't all...

We have 2 RIRs that are a year old. Today we bought 2 more (around 3-4 months old). When we put the newbies in, the older ones went on the offensive. While I understand that some bullying is normal to establish a pecking order, but one of the older ones seems to have taken a serious dislike to...

We live in the countryside and so some natural pests such as mice and rats are to be expected. What I don't like is the fact that the rat (or rats) is stealing our chicken pellets. We let our chickens out in the morning to roam around as they please. We leave the door open so they can come back...

How do I stop our chickens eatin my wife's flowers?? We have 3 RIRs, and we are currently doing up our garden, so there is very little greenery around for the chickens to eat. My wife has flowers in pots ready to be replanted back into the garden once it's in decent order again, but the chicks...

Do chickens know they're not waterproof??? The weather's been pretty horrendous here in Ireland over the past couple of days.Our 3 RIRs have a coop and a run to move around in. I just checked them (9:30 at night), and a couple of them are out there in the run, scratching around in the driving...

I have 3 RIRs, which I got about 5 weeks ago. The seller told me they were around 17 weeks old, and should start laying at 20 weeks. I started getting eggs 9 days ago, but the most I've gotten in any day is 2, and sometimes just 1. I think I know which 2 are laying - could the other one be a...

We have 3 RIRs for the past week and a half, and all are around 18-19 weeks old now. They were pretty shy at first, but in the last couple of days, have gotten very brazen - 2 made a run for it when the door of the coop was ajar. We got them back in, but now whenever anyone goes near the door...

We're new to chickens, and have a nice coop - a kind of upstairs-downstairs idea, with the nesting area up a ladder and the bottom area open, similar common triangular designs, but more of a cube than a pyramid. My wife thinks we need to put the whole coop into the garage at night to (a) keep...

We're new to chickens, and have a nice coop - a kind of upstairs-downstairs idea, with the nesting area up a ladder and the bottom area open, similar common triangular designs, but more of a cube than a pyramid. My wife thinks we need to put the whole coop into the garage at night to (a) keep...