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We had a girl get scalped by the rooster. Upon review we learned this happens. We were out of town. Our chicken sitter covered it in Blu-kote and put her in our isolation pen, attached to the run. She has healed up nicely, the skin grew back and feathers came in. The "nursery" as we call has an...

It's been ages in coming, but I wanted to share my final, finished, and updated Coop Build article. The Rise & Shine Coop for Flora Vale Farmstead has taken a year and half to complete, but well worth it. With the roof finally on, and the tarps finally off, the build article could be written. So...

Dixie, our one surviving chick from a clutch of fertile eggs hatched just after we culled it's father, with it's adopted mother, Ditzy. So hoping it's a pullet, as we would love to keep it, but loving not having a roo these days. Let us know your opinion.

So, we have a roo. He needs to go. Reasons are various. We both have skills and although this will be our first bird to process, I have worked with animals and hunted a lot. So the killing and processing isn't the question. It's the best way to save the feathers for processing. We are crafts...

So, we've read all the best articles, and talked to our fellow chicken keeping friends, and now, we are asking ya'll. The situation is. We have a two flocks. One a collection of 1 yr. olds, hens and one slightly mean rooster. The other, a clutch of six 8 week old pullets. We have a wknd events...

The Story Thus Far..... Current flock is one year old. Four hens, one Roo. (Two leghorn hens, two Golden Laced Wyandottes, GLW Roo) The roo, my Little John, is the only other male on our property, and I like him lots. He is a good rooster...mostly. Good to the girls, and, well, protective of...

Hi folks. We done the usual searches here, and haven't quite found the answer. We have a hen, a white leghorn, with saddle back. She is fine, just a little worn. One of four hens in the coop with the rooster, and perhaps his favorite and dominate hen, so....you know what happens. It's been a...

Just a little tour to share of our set up. Posting from far western Maryland, in the mountains above Mount Savage, at about 1900 ft. Blowing snow and blustery winds, and deep cold and things are comfy.

Ladies and Gentleman, Boys and Girls, Hens and Rooster...we have achieved...oviposition. The purpose of all our hard work, and planning, and research, and more hard work, has come to fruition. The egg production facility and it's well cared for inhabitants has begun to earn it's place in our...

After days and days of work on our coop and run, and it almost finished, and I look up on my workshop bookshelf and realize...maybe I've been going about this all the wrong way?!?!?! Maybe I need to switch to smaller birds? Chickadees are nice.

Just a fun little video I put together. We have been waiting for our Rooster to crow. We live in a rural area and part of the joy of a rooster. Our nine year old daughter has been holding him and crowing at him to encourage. She's teaching. Then, we had and experience of being Rooster Dumped. I...

Hello all. Still well on the learning curve, but rocketing right along. We have five birds in our coop. Four hens and a Roo. Two Golden Wyandote hens, a Roo of the same, and two white Leghorns. All bout 13 weeks. Naturally, Chicken Math is in full swing and we want more! Searching Craigslist...

Well, our 4 girls and 1 Roo are only 12 weeks old, and the coop and run is not quite finished. We have been waiting for our Golden Wyandotte Roo to crow, and our little girl has been trying to teach him. So imagine our surprise when at 5:30 AM we were rocked out of bed by a full throated crow...

Added our new auto door to the coop. Was easy, easy, easy. Now...getting the timers right, and easy for myself and family to work the manual switch is harder, but here it is. Also, for those of you who are old D&D gamers, the designation D20 is awesome. D20 Add-A-Motor purchased from...

Just learned this old German proverb saying from a friend who is a folklorist. I did some research and, yes, it is a excellent saying in German. So, adult language ahead. You have been warned. Das Leben ist wie eine Hühnerleiter, kurz und beschissen Tranlation: Life is like a chicken ladder...

Hello all, Still new to BYC and haven't posted much. My wife and I are professional artists living in the mountains of western Maryland. We joke that we are only artists to support out gardening and homesteading habits, which isn't really a joke. So we thought the one key that was missing in our...

Hello all. Just getting started, in fact, we don't even have our birds at home yet. But soon. They were raised by a friend with the time and space to brood them. However, we live in far Western MD and I am building and designing my coop. We live in Weasel Country, and I have realized this more...

Hello All. Our first post here. From the far NW corner of Allegany County, in western Maryland. Located in Mount Savage, about a mile outside of town. We live on about six acres, but only about 2 is workable, the rest being hill sides and rocks. We have about 2500 sq foot of organic gardens...