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Hello Friends! I have a friend who has a 6 week old roo chick looking for a new home. I still have my four 6 week old chicks in the brooder in my house. Can I put the roo in with the pullets? Will this work out? What are your suggestions? Thanks in advance.

Hello Friends! I just had to post a photo of our newest little babies on the farm. From bottom to top: Daphne (Light Brahma), Sweet Pea - Sweetie (Lavender Orpington), Roberta - Birdie (Barnevelder), and Preppy (Speckled Sussex.) We are in love, of course. Chicks are just pure happiness. Happy...

It gets pretty hot and humid here in the summer and Winters are a mixed bag these days.

Hello. I am looking for ideas for storing my feed/scratch. I currently keep all feed/scratch in our feed/tack room which is in our basement through an outside door. We have some mice friends getting into it. What do you use that works? Metal trash cans? Plastic feed containers? Thanks in advance.

Hello Friends! I now have 2 Welsh Harlequin ducks living with some of my chickens in one of my coops/runs. My daughter is sensitive to duck eggs so I plan on only giving/selling them to neighbors and not keeping them. I'm having a difficult time identifying the duck eggs because many of the...

Hello Friends! Well, it's been raining for days over here in SE PA and my runs are mud, especially the one with our 2 new ducks. Any tips on how best to mitigate the mud? I've put hay down on top but that only lasts and stays dry for a few hours at the most. Then, it's a mess to rake up. I've...

Hello! I'm looking to add 2 female ducks to our small flock on our farm. I am not interested in a drake at this time since the ducks will be mingling with chickens regularly. Any breed is okay, but would prefer the following: Rouens, Pekins, Saxony, Appleyard, Welsh Harlequin, and Ancona. I'm...

Hello friends! I've posted on here about dealing with hawks but now our bigger issue is foxes. My neighbor feeds a family of foxes (9 to be exact) and so they are around our property all the time at all times (morning, afternoon, night). We see them constantly on our surveillance cameras. So...

Hello friends! I have 3 4 week old chicks that I will be integrating into my existing flocks in a few weeks and I'm trying to plan on the best way to do this. I have a flock of birds that are over a year old and I have a flock of bantam birds that are 3 months old. Which flock should I try to...

Hello Friends! So, I have 6 hens who used to live with a friendly rooster named Mo. He was super nice to us but, he was rough with the hens during mating. I bought all of them saddles, which they wore for some time and I decided that Mo had to go. It was hard to let him go, but my poor chickens...

Hello friends! Our newest chicks have arrived. Please welcome Felicia, Ursula, and Regina. Felicia is a White Crested Black Polish Bantam. Ursula is a Green Queen Bantam. Regina is a Steele Egger Bantam. We ordered all 3 from Meyer Hatchery and they arrived yesterday. So far, they all are doing...

Hello Friends! I was wondering if you are free-ranging your backyard flocks or not due to Avian Flu? I'm looking to start giving my chickens more time out and about in the spring when predators aren't lurking as much and they have more cover. However, I don't know if I shouldn't let them out...

Hello Friends! I recently bought some chicken saddles online to help protect my girls from our rooster, Mo. They are losing some back feathers and I'm trying to help them re-grow. The saddles I bought, although adorable, are not staying on. I have no idea how they get them off, but they keep...

Hello Friends! So I have two of my chickens wearing saddles right now because my rooster Mo just really really likes them. They have so many feathers missing on their backs. I'm hoping the saddles will give them some protection so the feathers can begin to grow back. My question is: How long...

Hello Friends! I am going to add 3 bantams to my flock this spring and I wanted to get some input about different breeds. Currently, I'm considering: Belgian D'Uccle, Easter Egger, or Cochin bantams. I live in Southeastern PA, so we have sometimes colder winters and pretty hot, humid summers...

Hello Friends! One of my chickens was not acting like herself this morning. She is lethargic and drinking a lot of water. Her stools are a bit bloody and I think I saw some little things moving in them. I'm not 100% sure. I have separated her from the other hens, cleaned up the coop, poop...

Hello Friends! I just wanted to post that a few days ago, we got our first egg from our new current flock. I'm such a proud chicken mama! There is something so innately beautiful about an egg. Right? It is from our Easter Egger, Indy, which is surprising because I thought the Australorp would...

Hello Friends! I'm at a loss about this chicken. It was supposed to be a Cinnamon Queen, which it clearly isn't. No big deal. I think she's beautiful. I'm guessing she's an Easter Egger. Yay! More pretty eggs. However, I'm hoping she isn't a roo. She is currently 12.5 weeks old. I can't compare...

Hello Friends! So I just posted a rather long post about how my integration process is going with four 7 week old chicks and three 4.5 month old hens. So far, so good, I guess. As noted in that post, the chicks stay to one side of the run and the hens stay to other. The hens will chase the...

Hello Friends! So, I am in the process of integrating my four teenage-ish chicks into a flock of 3 adult hens. We started the integration process 10 days ago and I thought I'd share what I did since many folks are posting about integrating chickens. For reference: My coop is 4x6. My run is...