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My experiences with cockerels have not been positive. We have had to re-home or execute a couple in the past. I recently ordered 10 new pullets to add to my dwindling and aging flock. These pullets are now about 13 weeks old. Two of them are much bigger and acting very aggressive toward one...

We accidentally got two roosters with our chicks last year. The entire flock is now about 1year of age. Over the fall and winter one rooster became dominant and was really aggressive in his mating behaviors. Next thing we knew, most of our hens had heavy loss of feathers in the saddle region...

My young hens, roughly 6 months old are laying regularly now. Today when I went out I found two eggs lying in a little pool of egg whites (maybe a tiny bit of yolk). Initially I thought an egg had been dropped onto the bottom of the next box and broken. The girls tend to hollow out a place...

Like many I have some babies that were purchased from Atwood's. The first pictures were sold as ameraucanas or Easter Eggers. But as they began to get feathers they look more like Black Laced Golden Wyandotte to me. All are females. Could they be a hybrid Easter Egger? Second group of...

We are building a big, awesome coop and run! I'm so excited to get back into chickens. I've seen wooden frames with 1/2 inch grid wire that allows forage material to grow up through it, but won't allow chickens to completely uproot and kill the plants. The place where we are building the coop...

Hi I'm Susan. I had chickens when I was younger, but didn't have the money for a proper coop and ended up losing birds over time to predators. Now that I am at retirement age, I want chickens again. We have about 1 acre of land in the suburbs. Hubby is building an AWESOME chicken coop and run in...