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What breeds are you chickens that are most docile with one another? We have an EE and a BCM that are feather plucking my other mellow EE and my mellow PBR. The naughty EE isn't laying eggs at all and the BCM only lays sporadically. They have to go. We're looking for some hopefully mellow birds...

In your personal experiences, until what age do your black sex links lay? Thanks!

We recently switched from Scratch and Peck to a crumble. There's a ton of powdered crumble in the bag of the new crumbles, and I'm wondering if anyone has any flock block type recipes to use it up. I think I'll go with pellets next time and hope they have less powder. My birds won't eat powder...

Has anyone ever used Fooey Bitter Spray to deter feather plucking? We used to use it in avian vet med with neurotic parrots that self mutilated. I have 4 hens, 3 if which have bald butts. I assume the chicken with all her butt feathers is the culprit. I haven't seen it happen, though, so it...

I previously had two roosts in my henhouse, one at 2 ft tall and one at 4 ft tall. The girls have been plucking my BCM's feathers from her bum either when she's on the 2 ft roost, or when she's in the 4 ft roost and the others are on the 2 ft. I removed the 2 ft tall roost, but now I'm concerned...

In your opinion, what is the optimal percentage of protein in feed for laying hens?

I have one chicken that allows the other 3 to pluck out the feathers on her rear end. I'm pretty sure it happens when she is sitting up on a roost. It started when the weather got bad and they were spending most of their time in the henhouse. She's second in command and no one picks on anyone...

I have a hen that allows my other girls to pluck her feathers between her vent and tail. I'm pretty sure that the main offender is a hen that passed away last week, so I'm hoping the feathers will grow back in. We've had extremely warm weather for this time of year, but we're expecting a drop...

Last week I had 2 girls still not giving weeks at 40 weeks of age. One of them passed away, apparently from a reproductive anatomy abnormality. Boo. The other one finally gave an egg 2 days ago! Today we got 4 eggs from 4 birds :celebrate The new girl has used a different box than the others...

I have (5) 21 week old pullets. One of my EE has been laying sweet little blue eggs for almost 3 weeks. Today we got a brown egg and I'm unsure whether it came from my Barred Plymouth Rock or my Black Copper Marans. They've both been squatting and checking out the nest boxes recently. Both are...

What does everyone that feeds moistened or fermented feed use as a feeder? Gravity fed is not working out at all. The Scratch and Peck that I feed moist kind of dries and cakes so it can't drop down. I tried a plastic trough style but my girls didn't seem to be able to get their heads through...

I finally got my 4 couple day old chicks on Tuesday. An Ameraucana that is a few days younger became available and I'd like to add her to my other 4 chicks tomorrow. My girls are calm and get along well. They don't boss or push each other around, or peck or pick each other. They have plenty of...

I'm noticing that a lot of people favor the horizontal chicken nipple over the vertical. Are the horizontal nipples appropriate for chicks, or are the vertical a better bet until they are more developed? Thanks so much! This community is great!

I'm wondering how far a yard of river sand is going to go in a 9.5'x 6'run. Any idea how many yards it would take? Thanks so much!