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Do you still have any of these available? I'm looking for bantams, we lost 2 and the 2 remaining are going to be at the mercy of the full sized flock. Trying to increase numbers so the mini birds can enjoy the yard too.

If we had snow I'd get that, but we've had one dusting so far this winter, and that's it. Now, last winter their coop was close to the house because I wasn't sure how they'd do with the cold, and I wanted them close, but now their coop is permanently in the back of the yard, and maybe it's just...

Don't get me wrong, back door egg service is lovely, but lately my girls aren't laying their rare winter eggs in the coop, they're laying them at my back door. I don't heat or light my coop in the winter because we use DLM for warmth and I wrap the north west sides in reflective wrap to help...

It was EYP. We put her down last night, she wasn't going to make it with antibiotics, and I didn't want to prolong her misery. She went down so fast, I never thought it could reduce a perfectly happy hen to death's door in only 48 hours. She was a great layer, but lots of double yolks and large...

One year old comet, usually lays an egg a day, found her this morning laying in the run on her belly. Crest is pale instead of bright red, very lethargic, hard abdomen. It FEELS like there are several eggs in her belly, at least two possibly three masses. I've been soaking her in tubs of warm...

She's pretty lethargic, up until I try to put cream and a wrap on her, then she's pretty feisty. She ate, drank, and pooped, though now she's just hunkered down in her towel. I don't think I have her wrapped correctly, but at least there's a shelter bandage keeling her feathers out of it.

My six week old houdan was attacked by something not sure if a cat or the rest of the flock dogs this, but I have no idea how to treat or if even treatable!

My poor Chickbird. A week and a half ago, my cocker spaniel decided she wanted to eat a chicken, so she grabbed my poor Chickbird by the leg and pinned her down before I could grab her. Normally she leaves the chickens alone, but now we know she can't be trusted, so she's separated from my...

I have five, seven-week old Golden Comets. They haven't had a heat lamp on in their brooder in two weeks, because the brooder is in my dining room. Their coop is built and ready for them, and it's been above freezing at nights for over a week now. I've been putting them outside whenever it isn't...

And your chicks don't have a hard time drinking from nipple waterers? (I think I just made up a word. )

I just noticed that, lol, this morning I got up to clean and feed/water the girls, and they'd managed to completely empty their water reservoir, and I JUST changed their shavings yesterday. So I got the top piece of a large tupperware container and set the feed and water on that instead of...

We've got our first five ladies brooding indoors, and we're planning on building/converting our coop this weekend. The building is a preexisting structure, concrete floor, wooden walls, shingled roof, several windows. The building is not insulated, however, and this winter has been brutal. My...

Pie pan is a great idea, shallow enough for them to jump over the edge, but deep enough to contain their crazy food flinging. I'll have to try that.

The mess

I've got a round feeder as opposed to a strip feeder for my 5 ladies (one week old) and they're emptying the whole food reservoir every day. They're not eating that much food, they're scratching it out of the feeder and making a huge mess around it with their feed, and then pecking at the...

Do you have access to a large dog crate, or can you check Craigslist, etc, for one? We just moved our ladies to one that we then attached hardware cloth to, to keep cat paws away. Definitely big enough for our 5 girls, but we're only using a medium crate. You might want to consider just building...

My brooder is a large dog crate I sided halfway up to keep shavings in place, and then I covered the rest of the way up with 1/2" hardware cloth, to keep curious cat paws away. They definitely can't escape, but I was concerned that they were attempting flight so early, it was unexpected.

My babies!

My 5 ladies are only a week old, and very active when they're not eating, drinking, or napping so suddenly I worry that they've hurt themselves (so far, so good.) But I just moved them into a larger brooder because they seemed to need more room, and it looks like they're trying to fly. Is this...