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These therapy chickens have done so much for this little girl with CP and now the town wants to take them away. Please sign... www.change.org/petitions/city-of-perry-allow-lucas-and-katelyn-to-keep-their-therapy-animals Thanks!

I just finished making 2 5-gallon watering pails with the push in style nipple waterers. I got the grommets in okay after wetting, but could not fit in the nipple into the grommet for the life of me. Then it dawned on me... dimethicone. I own a business that makes lotions, etc and have pure...

Should there be a small nightlight in the coop? I was thinking a LED closet light (battery). After I close them in, if one of them gets off the roost for whatever reason, I don't know if they get back up. It's pitch black in there. Is it a good idea to have a small light?

I have 3 pullets who are escape artists. I have a four foot plastic poultry fence, and even after clipping their wings they are still able to make it over the fence. I know I clipped the wings properly and I don't dare go any shorter (it's just below the next "set" of feathers). It doesn't...

I need help again figuring out what this chicken is. She/he's about 15 weeks old now. Please help a family argument. I think it's a SHE. I'm pretty sure my Henry (pictured in my avatar) was trying to do a mating dance with her this morning... I think. Henry and "Oreo" are also best buds. I...

I watched one of our new Tetra Tints lay this egg this morning. It looks like it's been splashed with textured paint! Is that normal? Will her eggs always look like this? Pretty wild looking!

If I was to insulate with styrofoam insulation and leave it uncovered, would the chickens eat it? Would it harm them?

I had noticed a tiny bug on one hen a couple days ago, so I treated everyone today with permethrin. It went amazingly smooth. I put the powder in an old cotton sock and puffed it all over, under their wings, tops and their vents really well. Dusted the roosts, etc. I will do it again in...

Two things that I have discovered and I need to know what to do. I noticed one of my producers making a sound like a sneeze the other day. Kind of sounds like an internal sneeze if that makes sense. I've just been watching her for a couple days. She was just doing it again, so I picked her...

I need some help, please! I have 8 chickens that I bought as 1 day old Buff Orpingtons (from TSC). Now that they are about 12 or 13 weeks old, they don't look anything like a Buff Orpington that I have seen and I am having a hard time figuring out pullets and roosters! HELP! This first pic...

I know, I know, it's muggy and hot and I'm thinking about winter. I have looked and seen no information on the guidelines of keeping chickens in the winter re: whether or not to let them outside. At what temperature do they have to stay inside? If it's warmer than freezing, but there is snow...

Right now, I have 3 ducks... a mallard and 2 rogue (sp?) ducks. They have their own area outside but we take them indoors into our garage every night. They sleep in two wire dog crates pushed together. It gets very messy and we clean it completely every couple days. The main problem is their...

Just curious if anyone knows. I have several (we think) Tetra Tints about 15 weeks old, all pullets. Our rooster (same age) who has been mating and helping to create fertile eggs has started to mate with them. Does this mean they will lay eggs very soon? Or would he mate with them long...

I can't figure out what these girls are. We got them from TSC and they were all in a tub together. Out of the same tub we got a RIR (maybe a mix? not sure) a EE hen and our EE rooster pictured in my avatar. I thought white leghorn, but the one solid white one has grey legs, whereas the...

Will I be able to tell the difference between a Buff Orpington egg and a Black Australorp egg? The reason I ask is because I want to raise Australorps next spring and sell day old chicks. I have two pullets now... an australorp and an orpington who are attached to each other. I want the...

I thought I remember reading or hearing that hanging shiny things, like CD's, in a tree will help scare away predatory birds. T or F?

My roo is about 13 or 14 weeks old now. He is crowing, dancing for his girls (so hysterical!) and doing his "deed". lol Would he be fertile at this point? Or is he still practicing? He's the one in my avatar, Henry. He's mating with full grown, laying hens only, though dancing for others...

Now I feel guilty since reading other morning posts. :( Ours arrived this morning and all 18 seem fine. Phew! I have been so anxious the last couple days. So sorry for those that did not have a good delivery.

I realize many of you don't vaccinate chicks, so my question is for those that do their own. I will be hatching Black Australorps in the spring and would like to vaccinate before I sell the day old chicks. I figure it can't HURT, only help, and the vaccinations are relatively cheap. I would...

Wahoo!!! Got another raccoon! We got him in the Hav-a-Hart trap just outside the coop. It's not the monster raccoon that was here last week, but we'll keep on trappin'! The trap was set out on wood and the raccoon had pooped while in the trap. When dh moved the trap, the poop smeared into a...