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One of my Buff Orpingtons is broody often. I decided to let her have a few days worth of eggs and try to raise some babies :) I had good intentions. I marked the eggs with a pencil. Well my 10 year old did while I held Pumpkin (the mama). She did not mark them very well. When I collected eggs...

My chickens have only been allowed out of the run a dozen times or so when I am working outside in the evenings over the last month. They always stuck close to the coop. Then we gave our rooster away over the weekend. Yesterday I let them out and they went further then before. Today I let them...

I have my big rooster listed on craigslist. He has to go. Well I had a woman call me yesterday morning about him. She asked how many I was selling. I told her just one rooster. She kept saying she needed a lot. I thought she was meaning she needed a rooster and lots of hens. She did not speak...

I have been patiently waiting and it has been a long wait. They are 6 months old now. There are two Easter Eggers and two Ameracuanas. Not sure who laid it but I am grateful it was there! It is much smaller than the eggs from our Buff Orpingtons but it is beautiful!

Ok so I have 8 hens and ended up with 3 roosters. One did not develop much, he has an impacted crop that will not go away so we are keeping him comfortable. The other two grew big and it was obvious one was the guy in charge. He kept the other one at bay and we all kinda felt sorry for the...

They are both about 5 months old and have not laid yet. Over the last week one of them started getting redder and her comb is a tiny bit bigger. Until last week they were identical. Does this mean she will lay soon or did she turn into a boy? This is the one that changed and her sister

We ended up with two roosters and this one is the dominant. He is mean to the other rooster, but not to us. My daughters have sided with the underdog so this guy needs to go. He is 4 months old. Pick up in Rhome Texas (just north of Fort Worth).

I have what I think is an rooster, he seems to have stopped developing/growing, who has an impacted crop. He has been like this for around 2 months and he is around 4 months old. His brothers have already started crowing so I thought maybe he was really a hen?? He is a lot smaller than the other...

My two roosters are maturing, crowing, and I have seen them mount a few hens. It is ridiculously hot and now one of my BOs is boody again. I collect the eggs in the evenings, around 6-7 pm. Not sure exactly what time they lay, I check for eggs when I water them and give them treats around 10 and...

The past month or two my older girls have refused to go into the coop till the sun is completely down. Guess they figured they were big girls and they would go in when they were ready. The younger ones (4 months old) go in before the light is gone. The past week they have refused to go in at...

My 2 Ameraucanas and 2 EEers are 4 months old. How much longer do I have to wait? Every day I walk down to the coop and just find brown eggs from my BOs. The Ameraucanas that ended up being roos are already crowing. It has to be soon right?

My girls have got to be the pickiest hens ever! They do not like cabbage (I hung some from a string for fun) or most veggies. They love grass, watermelon, grass, mealworms and grass. Seriously, they love grass. It is their favorite. I feed them chick start because they will not eat the layer...

I ended up with 2 roos and they are maturing. I was planning on giving them away when they were prettier with their longer feathers, but I noticed lately they are looking a little bare. Yesterday I watched 2 different hens picking the long feathers off the roos tails. Why would they do this...

We went out of town over the weekend. Went out to feed them and check on them and noticed some black dots on their combs. I googled and it looks like fowl pox? Are the eggs safe to eat? We already ate 2 cooked in our dinner last night! I saw there was a vaccine. I have given puppies shots before...

I have a 3 month Ameracuana roo that has what I guess is a severely impacted crop. It is the size of a tennis ball and super hard. He has been like this for a week. I put him in a smaller cage to separate him I put a plate with a piece of bread soaked in olive oil. He did not eat it the first...

I remember someone here telling me to use the 1/2 inch hardware cloth. I just joined a rabbit forum because one of my daughters 2 pet "female" rabbits gave birth unexpectedly. They said that raccoons could rip right through the 1/2 inch hardware cloth and the only safe wire is 1x2 inch welded...

I found a breeder locally who sells Black Copper Marans that are straight run 4 weeks old. Think they would let me pick or do they normally just grab some and that is what you get?

I have 4 Buff Orpington hens, 2 Ameracauna hens and 2 Easter Eggers. There are also 3 roosters that will be rehomed very soon :) I was thinking I might add 2 Copper Marans to give me some variety of egg color. Is that too many breeds? My coop is 4x8 and the run is 8x30. If I did the math...

I went out tonight to feed them all some veggie scraps from dinner and noticed one boy has a very swollen crop. What can I do? What caused it? He is still eating and drinking.

Right now we have been leaving it in the bag on the porch and that is obviously not a good idea. What is best to keep out the pests and bugs? Metal, plastic, trash barrel?