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It just fizzled away. I've had chickens for 5 years. On the Main Street. Across from the police station. No problems. Problems occur when people go stirring the pot.

How do you get started showing chickens? We have pet chickens from mypetchicken.com and meyerhatchery.com. How do you know if you get one that is worth showing?

My Columbian Wyandottes are very babyish as well! They are almost 4 weeks old and have bare spots on their "elbows?". They are mostly fuzz with a few wing feathers. The rest of my new batch of chicks are all feathered and starting to get combs.

I'm writing an article for our local paper and was wondering where I could find some extra info. How many people visit the site each week? How many active members are there? How many posts are on the forum? I'm sure that's going to be a lot! Anything else I need to know?

The only reason they said "No" was because you asked. People automatically say no to things they don't know about. And to regular people (read not people with chickens) chickens are farm animals and chickens apparently come in hundreds! The original ordinance that's been on the books forever...

All I could figure was that the council members never cleaned out a horse stall.

Well I had my meeting. I did not tell him about my chickies. We talked about the ordinance and he told me that he was very surprised that it didn't pass. He told me to try again and get a petition together and more people at the meetings would be good too. I asked if a "fieldtrip" for the...

I have a meeting with our Mayor tomorrow afternoon. I wanted to help educate him on keeping backyard chickens. I emailed him the other day after a new article came out about our town voting down a really good chicken ordinance but saying a couple in a residential area could have 16 horses. (I...

Oh my gosh!! A week in the cage?! My poor little Nugget. Do they just stop being broody on their own or do they need to have some babies first?

I have Buffy, Nugget, Tinkerbell, and Mrs. Feather-Bottom. We had a pretty little girl named Kevin, but then she turned out to be a he!

I've put Nugget in Solitary Confinement because she's gone broody. She is a Silkie and was laying like a champ, then bam, nothin'! All she wants' to do is sit in the nest box. I've tried putting a bag of ice under her, she tried to hatch it. I tried locking her out of the coop, But the other...

Buffy, Tinkerbell, & Mrs. Feather-Bottom

I just saw a video where someone dipped their Broody Hen in cool (not cold) water to bring her body temp down. I have a silkie that just started sitting on eggs 2 days ago and I'm going to try and break her of this ASAP. I've just been taking her off the eggs and putting her outside the coop and...

My little silkie, Nugget, seems to have laid 7 eggs this week! Is this even possible?! I only have 1 silkie and her eggs are very different from the other girls so it's easy to tell them apart. How many eggs do your silkies lay?

This was from my Tinkerbell (SLW) this morning! All 5 of my girls are 18 weeks.

Quote: Great... That's my entire yard! Do they always lay in the morning?

Where would one start looking for a secret egg stash? I don't know if anyone has laid an egg yet but I have a sneaking suspicion that Tinkerbell may have. She's been acting different and she squats for me. I even felt her rear to see if it felt different than the other chickens' and it does. The...

I just have a few girls and even though (briefly) about bringing them in the house! It's going to be a hot one here too. I may fill a kitty litter box with cool water for them to stand in.l I don't think I'll let mine get too wet. I have a few silkies and I don't think they would dry very well...

I got my girls some freeze dried worms, Happy Hen treats. If you sprinkle some in their pen and then start to hand feed them, they should learn to like you.

I'm thinking of converting my Rubbermaid shed into a Chicken Coop. I have 5 hens right now, they are in a tractor/ark thing now but I don't think it's quite big enough. I would love to hear what you guys have done with the Rubbermaid Sheds. Pictures would be even better! Thanks!