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I raise chickens and I have two peafowl. One male and one female. My chicken chicks are to young yet to be out in the coop yet so I have them in the house but every day I take them outside so they can start getting used to the outside. They are in a small cage. When I take the cage outside my...

This may sound stupid, but I was wondering if a peacock could mate with another bird, turkey or chicken and have babies. I have looked and looked and can not really find an answer.

I have a question. I was told the other day that I could use a product called permethrin for chicken lice. My question is. I have a dog shampoo that contains permethrin in it. Would it be ok to use it to give my chicken a bath in it to kill the lice?

Baby just hatched!!! I just have to brag!!!!

I am a little freaked out right now. I have a broody hens that I think has lice. I went to check on her this morning and noticed little creatures running around on her. I need to know how to treat this before her eggs hatch. I can not put the eggs in an incubator because I don't have one. I...

I have a broody hen sitting at the moment, but I had to move my tractor due to rain and 3 inches of mud yesterday. My broody hen came out for about 1 hour, pecked around for a while and went back to sit. I am going to estimate that the eggs are just a few days in the process. Was an hour too...

Yesterday my family and I went to the poultry sale....always a dangerous place for me. I always wind up getting someone new. Well yesterday was no exception. I swear I was not going to get any new family members.......ha ha!!! We were just there to look. (Yeah right!) Well.........I saw a pair...

I have two hens that I think are broody. They have been sitting in the nesting box all day. The one was sitting on 4 eggs (all of them not hers.) They other one was sitting on just one. Assuming that it was her's. I take the eggs every day. And normaly if someone is in there I wait it out...

I was wondering if anyone knows if there is a commercialy made solar powered water heater. And if there is where can I get one? With temps dipping in to the below 0 mark every night I have to go out and water the chicken two times a day. I was wondering if anyone knows if there is a commercialy...

Hello everyone! I just have a quick question. I bought six Buff Pekin Bantam Hens last summer and I was just wondering when they are supposed to start laying. If I do the numbers they are about five months old give of take. I got one egg from them right before it got cold and nothing since...

I just purchased 6 Pekin hens from a poultry sale local to me. The new hens are Pekin Bantum hens. Today I picked one up and noticed that her feet looked scaley. So I checked the rest of them and all their feet are like that. I was told that they are young and the reason why their neck feathers...

I have a molting hen at the moment that is being pecked by my other girls. She has a few bald spots that are being pecked and bloody . I was wondering if anyone has used Bitter Apple on their chickens. Is it safe for them? They have plenty of food and water and space to roam so it is not that...

I have a typical A frame coop for my chickens and I wanted to build a run to make more space for them while I was not home. I had some old wire shelves that were sitting in the garage so I took some zip ties and wooden stakes and zipped them together, The steaks are there to make it stable. I...

One of my original chickens, who is a hens, I know because she laid her first egg right in front of me, is acting like the rooster. I have seen her mount the other hens and go through the motions of what the rooster does. She is an Astralorp and she is not the dominate hen. I also have four...

One of my original chickens, who is a hens, I know because she laid her first egg right in front of me, is acting like the rooster. I have seen her mount the other hens and go through the motions of what the rooster does. She is an Astralorp and she is not the dominate hen. I also have four...

I am proud to say that all but one of my hens have started to lay. I am so happy about that and every time I find an egg I thank them. I have only had them since March and I was given 4 Barred Rocks from a local farm. I had two hens already. Today I found one egg so far and possibly more on the...

My one hen just laid an egg fart....LOL. It was really small and I just had to crack it open to see if it had a yolk. Well it didn't. My question is can she have another egg today?

I just went out to give my chickens some more water....It is 95 degrees and one of them laid the first egg. I was not quick enough to get it on time and they ate it. How do I stop egg eating? I have see hollow a egg out and fill it with soap?!?!?!?! I don't want to make them sick from the...

I need some help designing a run for my a frame coop. I was using a combo of chicken wire and a tarp. I would like to build something more secure for them. It has to be removable so that when I move the coop to clean it I can take it off and move it. The coop is heavy enough with out anything...

I have been reading about diatomaceous earth and I wanted to know what are the benefits of giving it to my chickens? Is it something that I should give them on a regular basis? I have noticed that when I move the coop there is a ton of flies. Thank you for any help that anyone can give!