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Do chickens need more food in cold weather?

I have 24 hens. 3 are 18 months old, the rest are 5-7 months old. Daylight hours are decreasing and with the light the egg production has been cut in half. I put a light in the coop. It's timed to turn on at 3 am, giving the hens 16 hours of light. The light has only been in use for the past...

@donrae Someone picked up four of my roosters this morning. He had quite a few other chickens on the backback of his truck, and when I commented on that pretty hen, he decided my 2 year old daughter should have her very own chicken! My daughter named her Cinderella :)

Her feathers are so pretty!

Someone gave this hen to my daughter. Any idea what breed she is?

I had three hatch this weekend with the yolk not fully absorbed. One looked like it hadn't absorbed much of the yolk. It lived about 24 hours. Another had about the same amount of yolk out as your photo, that one lived a couple days. After the yolk dried up I cut it off, and it looked like the...

I was hoping someone could give me some clues to what makes an egg a good candidate for the incubator. My second batch for this spring hatched this weekend. I know which eggs come from which hens, and was disappointed to see that none of my Golden Sexlinks, Hamburg, or Wyandotte's hatched. When...