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Our one dog is the guarder of the chickens, walking among her flock everyday, all day. It's that other, bigger dog... Our German Shepherd broke through her cable run and had the afternoon free to "play" with our free range flock If we're around, she leaves the birds alone, but if she's bored...

Had one of our australorps go broody back in May and decided we'd finally let her sit a batch (we had broken her twice last summer). She had gathered her own eggs, but thinking we might as well add more, we grabbed some from the counter and added to her nest that night. Still, we ended up with...

4 bantams, full of glee, but as for breed... what say ye?? (alright, I admit that was dumb, but it's late and I'm tired) lol #1 (I'm assuming roo) #2 (pullet?) #3 (roo?) #4 (pullet?)

I had a 4" PVC feeder that worked alright... But I never did get the angles on it correct and it wouldn't self feed; pair that with it's insufficient volume and I was looking for a change. I had at one point seen a picture here where someone had made a feed box hopper style with a slanted...

We're down to 4 guineas from our original 6 keets this spring. A few weeks ago (the guineas were all still roosting every night in the chicken coop) when doing my nightly head count, I only saw 3 and figured another had met it's demise. Well a few days later, I chanced upon a guinea nest after...

Our birds free range all day everyday. Been that way since they were old enough back in the spring. Well every once in a while the two pit bulls next door get out and venture over to our property. Luckily they hadn't in a while (since before the birds free ranged). Until yesterday... My...

This is our first time with guineas. We raised 6 keets with most of their brooding time spent in a wired off corner of the coop. At about 10-11 weeks or so, I let them out to join the free ranging chickens. One separated from the others and spent the first night outside, while the other 5...

Well, I'm pretty sure I already know the answers... But I'd like to be sure, and if nothing else, the story to this point has been interesting. We're new to chickens and have been learning as we go. We started off with 13 pullets of various breeds and two straight run bantams all as days old...

Guineas finally arrived at the local Farm & Home today and promptly came home with me!!!!!!! Guineas are what originally piqued my interested with free ranging birds last year. A few weeks ago we got our first chickens and now we're happy to add guineas to the ever expanding zoo...

Well, we just got 15 chicks the day before St Patty's Day. 13 pullets of various breeds and 2 straight run bantams of unknown (to us) breeds. One of the bantams was darn near microscopic compared to the rest of the chicks and very unenergetic, though we saw it drinking and eating. Basically...

With our chicks growing daily, no time like the present to build a coop. We're new to chickens, but my researching here has given me a lot of insight! My Saturday started at 6:45 am by making a fire to heat the home, making a loaf of bread, and cooking some french toast, eggs, and bacon with...