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Our girls are getting into the spirit! Though, they won't step foot in the snow!

We're in Winnipeg. It hasn't gotten really cold here yet......the coldest it's been has maybe been -20 at night (which would be around 10 below zero farenheit). It'll get close to -40 (-40 farenheit) within a month or so. Here's what I've noticed about our flock of 7 ladies. Before it...

I have a question about the nighttime behaviour of chickens. I was under the impression that as soon as it gets dark, that chickens basically go to sleep and wake up when it gets light again. This is our first year with chickens, so please give me a break if that's just naive. :) Anyway, I...

So, we got our girls this spring. They free roam for the better part of the day, and have layer feed in their coop (which they only seem to go into at night), so i suspect that the majority of what they eat is what they find in the yard, and that's probably made up of about 75% crickets (we...

Hi This will be our first winter with chickens, so I'm planning to learn a lot about winter and chickens over the next 6 months. But, since I don't want to make any HUGE mistakes, I thought I'd ask a couple of questions. We're in Manitoba, so the girls will be looking at average daytime...

Just curious. We found one of our eggs in the run area the other day......to be fair, my wife thinks she may have interrupted one of them laying her egg when she lifted the lid to check for eggs. But as a kid, I remember collecting eggs at my aunt's farm, and she'd regularly find them half...

We got 6 girls at 8 weeks old back in June (2 leghorns, 2 Columbians, and 2 Barred Rocks). They were hatched April 14. We've been eagerly awaiting eggs since then. Two weeks ago, we took back what turned out to be a Columbian Rooster, who our supplier was happy to get back, and in exchange he...

Hi I'm hoping someone can give an opinion on this. We got this girl a couple of weeks ago, and she looked perfect at the time, but had some stubby feathers under her throat. It looked like the feathers were just coming in, or had been shaved off, or something. a week ago, we cleaned out the...

So, a couple of times a week, we'll take our 7 girls and put them in the fenced pool area, and let them go crazy eating the crickets and grass. We're always with them, so there's no danger of anyone drowning. One or two dogs are usually out there at the same time......one looking for the...

New chicken owner here. Can anyone help determine if I have a rooster here? While it certainly may have been some other kind of wild bird in my yard, I heard what sounded like some practice cockadoodling happening yesterday at about 5am. I didn't see her making the noise....I just heard SOME...