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This covers a lot of the basic precautions for keeping chickens. Great job! I would only add that goggles are very helpful for keeping dust (especially chicken poop contaminated dust) out of your eyes. Not only do they make a barrier to roaming dust, but they’ll keep you from accidentally...

Oh. My. God! That is so precious!

Kids and chickens are a natural match! They really seem to understand each other, by the looks of it.

Love at first Peep!

Instinctive trust between girl and bird🐣❤️

My Grandkids always love net Peeps day!

I brought Lily, the Guinea Hen, in to warm up in a particularly cold day. I’d never noticed that we look a little alike!

ASA Browns and Midnights Marans both shocked me and started laying at 4 months! They were born in April and started laying in august! And they’re the sweetest little girls!🐣🐥

Or maybe she’s really part hummingbird! I’m getting a great mental picture….

You HAVE to keep that egg!!!!

My first 3 were Winken, Blinken and Nod. As soon as I got to know these 3 gals, Nod became Naughty because she was so bold. My favorite bird. Now I have added Scarlet and Sadie, my redheads. And Onyx and Jade and Orchid, my beautiful black marans who shine green. And there’s Meredith and...

Plywood with linoleum works so well in my coop! I have to replace the linoleum every couple of years, but it’s well worth the price to keep the plywood clean, and the coop not stinky.

Hi, everybody! I keep my coop fresh using mugwort and lavender that grow with wild abandon in my yard. Every morning I take the hoe to the coop, moving all the spikes litter around into the clean litter, and every couple of weeks I throw in some lavender and mugwort. I dry some for the winter...

Just a quick question: how can you tell they “had cancer”? Was there a post-mortem done on each bird? I’m wondering if they might be eating something poisonous on their free-range walks? Chickens are really smart about what-not-to-eat, but mistakes can happen, too. I’m so sorry for all of your...

I’m almost 68 and have 14 chickens. I get so much more than I give, when it comes to my birds. I use the DLM, so the coops are odor-free and easy to maintain. The water hauling was killing my back, but I finally got smarter than the problem and got a longer hose that reaches the coops, instead...

I love my odor-free coop! I have mint and lavender growing around the perimeter, so the outside smells nice. For inside, I use hemp litter and stir it up every day. I add more hemp, just a couple of cups at a time, about every two weeks, or so. It still doesn’t stink then, but it seems to keep...

I got out of putting up 6’ of hardware cloth, and all that work with unyielding steel. My hardware cloth only comes up to about 4’, then I put a few shepherds hooks in the run before I threw on the bird netting. I can walk all over inside, it’s about 6’ high throughout the run, and I saved a ton...

I wish it was just a space problem. We’ve added the second coop, and they’re still at it. I’ve put food in about 8 different places, water in 3 different places, and added safety spaces. I have hope that this will resolve itself. I appreciate all of the great advice. Stay safe

This is great! Exactly what I’ve had to do because I have way too many roos. But they’re all sweethearts and gentle with humans and dogs, but have decided to battle non-stop this spring. I’ve got two coops and two pens. It’s working out well. I still keep trying to put them back together because...

Thank you! They deserve a flock of their own, they’re such sweet boys.