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We’d really like to get some different colored eggs and chickens to incubate this spring to add to our aging Buff Orpington and Easter Egger flock of 9 hens. We are only getting 2-3 eggs/day this summer as the hens are not only getting older (most 3 yo only 3 are 1 yo) and hot! What would be the...

Our Buff Orpingtons (4 hens 1 rooster) were raised by us from the egg. We love them and they are great egg layers. But our "first born" started out with a quarter sized bare spot below her vent and now in a matter of weeks, it is the size of her whole butt! I am horrified! They are on grower...

We have 18 week old Buff Orpingtons and we are wondering if it is time to open the nesting boxes. Are they too young? Is it too near winter - we are in NC, so haven't had much cold and probably won't have hard cold until January. Should we even expect eggs before spring? Not sure if we...

Being new to chickens, I'm reading conflicting things about what is the best bedding/litter to use inside the coop. I love the pine shavings, but they are expensive and I'm seeing that wheat straw isn't good because of holding moisture/insects. Sand seems so "unfriendly" and not cozy. What do...

I'm wondering if it is ok to leave a nightlight on in the coop 24/7. My chicks are 8 weeks old.

We are new to chickens and wondering if we can leave our 6 chickens in their nice size coop for the long Labor Day weekend - 3 nights? Of course with plenty of food and water inside - and a fan that comes on automatically at 80 degrees!

Interested in all things to do with new backyard chickens.