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My name is Andrea and I live in southeastern Ohio. We moved from New Hampshire (where I grew up) to our dream farm in Ohio in 2014. We brought our original flock (14 chickens) with us! I had chickens as a kid in 4-H and never thought I would have chickens again. Little did I know! My brother got...

Does anyone have any experience with a hen with a prolapsed vent? We discovered our almost 2 yr old Golden Laced Wyandotte presented with a prolapsed vent this morning. We have tried a couple of times, after cleaning it, applying antibiotic ointment to push it back in place....sadly we have not...

We have 7 chicks who are about 4 months old and we have 7 chicks who are about 2 months old. I want to put them together as I feel the younger ones are big enough....however I would like some input on how to do it. I have family and friends who have introduced new chickens at night by just...

I just got home a little while ago and my 11 year discovered that our BLRW chipped the tip of her beak??? She seems perfectly fine. She is 3 1/2 months old...Is this anything to worry about???

I have a 6 X 8 ft coop and a 6 X 12 ft run, how many large chickens can I put in this set up??? They will also have some supervised "free range" time in a fenced in back yard. Thanks for your help and advice!

We are new to chickens....our oldest chicks are almost 3 months old. We have younger chicks, 3 that are about 6 1/2 weeks old and 9 that are about 4 1/2 weeks old. With our older chicks, we have noticed a sneeze or two here and there...and I have read that that is normal in chickens and not to...

My 11 year old is amazing and I just want to say thank you for all your help! This is what we did today! Not perfect, but good enough for our chicks...they are going to love their new run!!! Tomorrow we will prime it and if we are lucky paint it....and then the final step will be attaching the...

Hi All, Just getting ready to start build my run. I live in a VERY small town in the country and we don't have a big problem where we are with fox, raccoon, coyote....just an occasional skunk at night. However I do have a rather aggressive, untrustworthy neighborhood dog who frequently gets...

Okay, I knew once I made my decision to get chicks straight run from a private breeder that we would have to play the wait and see game! I was not prepared for the TORTURE involved in playing the wait and see game! This is brutal and cruel and unusual punishment. LOL I wish I had a magic...

Life is too short to sweat the small stuff!!! It is truly amazing to me that with the current state of the world....war, children starving, the economy, illness, disease....that some people get upset, angry, even furious over some of the silliest, petty little things. SIGH..... Just had to...

We got chicks for the first time a couple of weeks ago....we got straight run as we wanted farm raised babies that did not have to be shipped in the mail....we have a variety of breeds...and so all are maturing a little differently and at different rates. My question is, are combs/ comb areas...

I raised chickens as a 4H project over 25 years ago....and my kids and I have recently gotten baby chicks (they are a little over a week old)! Every once in a while, after they have been running around in their box...stirring up shaving dust, it sounds like one of them might sneeze? This is the...

I have read about the different ways of sexing baby chicks and was wondering if the feather method, (to make and educated guess...LOL) works with any breed of chick??? And at what age???