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Girls just celebrated their fourth birthday and are laying as strong as ever, averaging 14 large eggs/week in summer, 4-6 in winter with supplemental light. One lays light green eggs, the other two light brown. Raised from chicks by my son, who is transitioning to a bantam flock – we don't have...

We started with deep litter method at the start of November. We're not doing it right, because we're starting to smell ammonia. What we've done: -- 10" of straw in coop with linoleum floor -- turning weekly with rake and sprinkling Sweet PDZ -- adding fresh straw every week or two The coop...

We brought home two Ameraucana chicks and one Welsummer, and lost one the first few days. Our local farm gave us a replacement, but we have no idea which breed we lost or which breed we brought home to replace our lost chick. We have at least one Ameraucana, or maybe two or maybe three. We're...

We have 5 chicks in a 4'x8' coop and a 5'x12' run. The run has hardware cloth buried underneath and very rocky soil on top. So when we rake up the poop in the run, we also rake up a ton of rocks. I need a better way, but after sifting through all the threads on this I'm still not sure which way...

Is it a bad idea to have roost rails near a window we plan to keep open? (Screened with hardware cloth, of course.) We live in a moderate climate — nighttime lows are between 40 and 60 degrees. We're converting a playhouse in a narrow spot in our yard into a coop, and I'm trying to fit...