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July 7, 2012 Friends this is amazing! I have a homing chicken. Really! I have a Welsumer roo and hatched two sisters from an Americana. When they grew up I thought one was eating her eggs and that she was laying them on the ground just inside the door of the pen. Catching her with a recent...

Oh my goodness! I have just spent several days contemplating the trappings of the back yard chicken flock. For multiple years I have followed the thread or threads. After recent events in my own state’s thread I have come to the conclusion …. Well if I spelled it out here you wouldn’t read...

Any one ever eat roo fries? Or am I just being sick. Butchered a young roo today, he is in the pot for chicken and dumplings, some of the meat reserved for stir fry. As I butchered I noticed that male gonad/ testies were the size of pecans. So just wondering has anyone ever eaten roo...

Saw a cooking show the other day. I think it was Americas Test Kitchen where they cooked chicken and made a White Mayo BBQ sause. It looked really good and I am trying to find it. Does anyone here have a white Mayo BBQ sause they would share Please? Thank you!

I dont want to have bare backed girls. I have 18 mostly young birds and 4 young roos in this flock. The roos have not started mateing yet. I just dont want them to tear up my girls if this makes sence?

Blue Jays have saved me at least three times now. Yesterday I heard Blue Jays going off big time. Went out and saw a hawk fly off from just above my pen. Two other times I heard the Blue Jays going off big time, and watched to see them harassing a Fox. Over the years I have watched them...

I know its late in the year to order chicks but a fox cleaned me out. I ordered from a hatchery that sent my chicks yesterday but today I still dont have chicks. My concern is the time from the hatchery to the home. How long does it take for most hatcheries to ship you your chicks? Someone...

I have had my 6 chickens for about a year and a half. I have a completly closed in pen that almost no predator could get in. Then they have a much bigger fenced in area with 4' chicken wire nicely tight, with stakes between the fence posts keeping the wire in place. Well last week at...

I want to order some chicks this spring, to replace losses. I really dont want a box of chicks in my house again. If I have a broody hen and let her set for 2+ weeks can I sneek some day old hatchery chicks under and be successful?

Tuesday home from work want my girls out ASAP catching bugs and scratching my food costs lower, so I rush out to let them out and discover feathers in the cage. Oh no! Let the girls out counting to see there all there. lots of loose feathers but no visible injury. I go to collect the eggs...

Ok I live in the country sorta, like so many of you. 5 acres, I have a secure pen that no dog can get in. My pasture is mostly fenced. I had a second dog attack yesterday. One chicken mauled with in 5 feet of my front door on my sidewalk. Two others with in 10 feet of their pen. Same dog that...

Hi friends I have 7 pullets/ hens of about 6 months. Four are laying. I have Two buff orps, two cin. Queens, and 3 Black Austrolorps. The Black As seem to be the most dominant. I noticed that the most dominant Black A seems to fluf her leg feathers like she has puffy trousers when out in the...

If I wanted eggs fast what varieties would I order to get eggs as soon as possible? What birds are the best egg layers of all? Numbers and duration

Hi all! I ordered three kinds of chicks this spring. I got 5 buff Orpintons, 5 cinnamon Queens, and 5 black Austrolops on May 29th. My Cinnamon Queens started laying at 4.5 months and lay daily. One even lays double yolkers often. The B.O. have just started laying and nothing from the B.A. at...

Once upon some chickens This last spring I ordered some baby chickens; 5 Black Austrolorps, 5 Buff Orpingtons, and 5 Cinnamon Queens. On May 29th the feed store called and said my chicks were in. They were so cute; little balls of fluff and an egg tooth. A month and a half later they were...

What level of protection does the roo provide? Does he just protect the girls from other Roos or does he do more? Lets say he is in the yard and a dog comes up will he stand in the way? Will he herd the girls to the coop? Will he make a warning call? Maybe some examples would be nice...

Ok I know the average chicken can take and average winter if you provide shelter. How cold does it have to be before I really worry about my chickens being hurt or killed by the temperature? My birds will have a shelter, food all the time and water with a electric water melter in it. I am sure...

Ok so I want to have a rooster and hens that will lay eggs that I can hatch and get my own cornish X meat birds. What is the best combination?

After reading about stuck yokes in a double yoke egg I am wondering can a double yoke egg hatch? if so is it ever successful?

Once started, how long will the average brown egg chicken lay eggs before she has to rest? How long will the rest be before she starts up again? All of this given good conditioins and the bird being an egg production variety.