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I was all ready to prune my fruit trees, but we have had a very warm winter. I am hesitant to prune because every time it gets “cold” (barely at freezing overnight), it goes back up in the 50s. The trees already have new buds growing on them! So, any advice? The pear trees desperately need...

I am not going into the whole story, but I posted quite a while back about how a neighbor’s dog broke our run and killed a chicken. We worked with animal control and their dog eventually got taken after several repeat attempts. The neighbor got their dog back (paid a fine) but retaliated with...

I found the first snake in the chicken run. Actually he was tangled in the bird netting I had over the run, and on a tree branch. It was a rat snake, so I cut down part of the netting and cut him free. I am keeping him in a tub with a screen over the top until my daughter gets home from school...

:lau Funny title, I know. My dog os a rough collie, and she burps like a teenage boy! I would say she burps about four or five times a day, and you can hear her in another room. Lol. Anyone else have a burpy dog?

The neighbor's dog came back again today. I had posted about a month ago that he broke into our run and killed one of our chickens. We reinforced the run, and this time he wasn't able to break in, but he kept throwing himself against the run, then the coop. We found out we can't put up an...

One of my friend's daughters is doing a class project that involves a chick. She can't keep it and asked if we would take it. It will be an older chick at the time we would get it, not sure how old yet. Would it be possible to add one chick? I know the group doesn't typically accept new...

We lost a chicken not long ago. We only had four to begin with, and would like to add another, but I know it wouldn't easily be accepted. I also know not to buy one chick and try to integrate it. Our remaining buff orp goes broody about once a month. If we obtained a fertilized egg, and she...

One of the dogs on our street broke into the run and killed my kids favorite buff orp. The other chickens ran out the hole he created and into the woods. My kids are devastated. I knew it would happen sooner or later. Even a well made coop and run won't keep a 100 plus pound dog out if they...

One of my buff orps goes broody a lot. Usually it is a quick fix by removing eggs often and taking her off the nesting box multiple times a day. This time she has gotten mean towards the other chickens. I have 3 nesting boxes and four chickens. She is pecking at them when they even come in the...

Sorry, I don't have a picture yet...the chicken who has this does not like to be handled. One of my chickens, a black sex link, is missing feathers on her bottom, below her vent, and the skin looks red and irritated in places. No bleeding or sores. The feather loss looks just like when the...

We are debating buying a collie (rough collie, not border). Our neighbor has two 6 month pups left from their litter. They have chickens so the pup is used to them, but theirs are always penned up. Ours run free part of the day. The neighbors have already done some behavior training, so the pups...

My buff orp, Penny, was in the house due to bumblefoot, for about a week. She was lowest in pecking order out of my four chickens. I brought in the other buff orp during the day to be with her, so she wasn't alone. I have been slowly trying to reintroduce her. I started about four days ago, by...

I have been checking my four chickens every few days for mites, since two of them have been losing feathers. Thankfully it just seems to be a mini molt. However, tonight I noticed one of them had a black mark on her foot, and at first thought it was just mud. It has been raining and snowing a...

I had posted a while back about one of my buff orps losing the feathers on her backside. There was no evidence of mites or lice and it was suggested it was molting. My chickens are about 10 months old. The buff orp also had been losing feathers all over, but only noticeable because the new...

I had posted a while back about pruning our one year old fruit trees, and got advice that winter was the best time. So now I need advice on which branches are the best to prune off. I have been researching but am really confused. The pictures below show the trees, some from different angles. I...

I found bloody poop in the coop again. I treated the chickens a few months ago for coccidiosis, after a week of deluge, and then I could obviously see that one of the chickens was sick (tail down, not active). This time they all look healthy, but egg production has gone down (two eggs in 3 days...

We are having our first snow of the season, and it is a doozy! So far we have 14 inches and it is still coming down. This is unusual for our area. The chickens would not come out of the coop this morning. Finally one jumped out as I was cleaning the poop out, and the others immediately...

One of my buff orps is missing her fluff from her backside. It happened pretty quickly, because I didn't notice it a few days ago, but noticed it today. There are no injuries, no lice or mites, and she is eating and drinking normally, and laying eggs. I am attaching pictures of her with the...

This must have happened last night or early this morning. It looks like part of her comb is gone...not much, just the tip. I am assuming one of the other chickens pecked her. They have never drawn blood before, but this particular chicken is lowest in the pecking order and tends to annoy the...

One of my buff orps has always been odd, but she is getting even more so now. She was the last to start laying, at 30 weeks. Before she started, she had this obsession with staring down the others while they were in the nesting box. She followed them up and paced back and forth in front of them...