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Oh jeez. Well I'm glad to hear that it's not just me finding more of them recently, hopefully the chickens are not contributing to the problem!

This is very good to know, thanks so much. Do you stop seeing them (or at least see them a lot less) once it drops below freezing?

So we have been spending tons of time outside ever since we moved in, and during the month that we were building the chicken coop (spending several hours out in the yard per day) I did not find a single tick. Now that the coop and run are complete we have spent maybe an hour per day, so I don't...

Yes I read this about guineas! Would love to have them, but like you said our property just isn't big enough. Chickens or ducks are all we can really have here.

HI everybody. My husband and I live on a half acre suburban property in PA, the land of the deer tick. We just moved here a few months ago and got our flock of 10 chicks soon after moving in. We have noticed that ever since we moved them from their brooder in our garage out to the coop/run we...

Thanks everybody! Got several bags of both sizes and spread them out around the run today. So far so good. Will add leaves once they dry out.

Thank you so much, how about these items: https://www.lowes.com/pd/Countryside-Accents-3-cu-ft-Natural-No-Color-Added-Pine-Bark-Nuggets/4573264 or...

Thanks for all of your ideas! We were going to give them our leaves, but the past week or os has been very rainy so the leaves are soaking wet. I saw in some other posts that only dry leaves should be added - do you know if that's accurate? Also, I'm having a hard time finding any totally...

I think with how wet it gets out there that just pine shavings would absorb too much water and get goopy if that makes sense, but I may be wrong about that. Any experience with it?

I can purchase mulch, for some reason I was under the impression that wood chips and mulch are somewhat different things - do you have a brand you recommend? I want to make sure we are using something that is totally natural/untreated. It is about 90 sq ft, I guess I really have no idea how...

Hi there! We have a flock of 10 chickens (located in Pennsylvania) that we just built a coop and run for. About half of the run is covered by a roof, the rest is just covered by hardware cloth. We have had our chickens living out there for several weeks now (they are about 13 weeks old) and...

They are my favorite chickens so far (we also have some speckled sussex, black copper marans, and a green queen) - I just love their fluffy little faces! So goofy looking and cute.

Yay thank you so much everybody!!!

One of my three blue ameraucanas has a comb coming in that looks a little bit fleshier than the others. Not sure if she might be a he or not - I have heard ameraucanas are tricky to sex at only 11 weeks. In every picture she/he is the one closest to the camera. Any educated guesses? Any advice...

It was indeed just the umbilical cord! Disappeared eventually, no issues whatsoever.

Thank you I appreciate your response!

Thank you so much!

Please help. Chick is 2 days old and appears active and healthy. Speckled sussex. She had a bit of pasty butt which I cleared up with a warm wet rag but this I think is actually underneath the vent, at first I thought it was more pasty butt but it is FIRMLY attached and seemed to hurt her when I...