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Good Morning All! I'm just starting my urban homesteading journey, and I'm super excited to learn everything I can about raising a small flock of egg-laying hens in Peoria, Az. From what I've been able to glean so far, it looks like Ameraucana, Andalusian, Naked Neck & Plymouth Rock are the...

Hello all! I am getting 9 laying chicks, 2 ring neck pheasant chicks and 1 pekin duck soon. I live in Southern Ontario, Canada. Hoping to get some good advice and help to raise happy and healthy animals :) :D :celebrate

Question for you guys. I have a roughly 6x8 ft (floor space, they've got some roosting rods and they're nesting nooks as well raised from the floor in the coop) raised coop for my 19 strong flock of 6-7 week old chicks, and I'm currently using Pine Shavings inside of it. I live in North-Western...

this is the first egg of the clutch and pipped this morning and started zipping soon after but they have not made any progress in more than 4 hours and the membrane looks like its dry and looks like its going hard humidity is 75-80% and temps are high end of 37c baby is peeping and trying to...

Hi everyone! My male Australorp, Verde, is sick. He's still young; barely 5 months old. His condition seems to be quite serious and I'm wondering how his passing (if it comes to that) will affect his flockmates? They are inseparable it's really cute. When he calls they come and when he leaves...

Hi All! So we are brand new to chickens. We got 6 chicks at the end of April, (3 Australorps, 3 Amberlinks) for eggs. We live in a suburban area of NE Ohio on 1/3 acre. My husband is almost done with the coop and run. The chickens are almost full size now, and currently housed in a huge...

Hello! I’m Amber, married with three beautiful kids. One of which is obsessed with animals of all shapes and sizes. We dont have land, but my parents do...so we are currently raising some chicks and ducklings until they’re ready for their new home! I’ve read every article I can get my hands on...

Hello friends! I am a new home owner and am lucky enough to have a beautiful big yard here in Portland, Oregon. I am excited to get a small flock (3-4) of hens for egg supply + new family pets, most likely Orphington, Austrolorp, maybe an Americaunah, maybe a Sussex? We are settled and have a...

So I am still a newbie chicken mom! but unfortunately I have a few questions about caring for a now lonely bantam hen (6 months old). Pruitt (lonely hen) is now alone in the coop after losing her two friends within a month long period to raccoons :( My most recent loss (Piper) was best friends...

Hopefully this is the right spot to post this.. After I get NPIP certified, I plan on selling hatching eggs and chicks. I don't know a whole lot about selling poultry so I thought I'd ask here. The only reason I'm going to be getting NPIP certified, is so I can prove that our birds are healthy...

I bought broilers along with my egg chickens just to see if the amount of time and feed was worth growing my own food. Well it's been about 4 months now and they look no bigger than a 4 week old broiler. I'm not sure what happened along the way that caused this but at this point I'm not sure...

Hey! So, I have three button quails that I keep in a 5 gallon temporary enclosure (will be upgraded next Wednesday), two younger individuals, male and female, and an older laying female, as I've been told by the breeder. Sadly, the older female still hasn't laid any eggs :( in addition to that...

My name is Brittany! We have 4 adult chickens we raised from chicks. Then four days ago we hatched our own baby chicks, and it was so much more rewarding! We love our chickens and spoil them everyday! If you have any advice for baby chicks please comment below! Also any tips and tricks you have...

I have 6 ducks. 2 female welshies, 1 male and 1 female khaki campbells, a female Cayuga duckling, and a female jumbo pekin duckling. So far their diets consist of whole corn, bok choy, kale, meal worms, occasionally bell peppers, oats (cooked for the babies), and I feed the girls that are laying...

Does anyone here keep chickens in village limits, a small town? How do you handle curious kids, neighbor pets? What do you do for smell and fly control? I would LOVE to hear others experiences of keeping a small flock of chickens living in town!! Since we set our coop this Fall, and daily I go...

Hi everyone! *Lots of pics below!! I wanted to ask your opinion/advice on what I might do to improve my coop situation. My husband built our 4x8 coop 3 yrs ago. We moved it with us this summer to a small town in Mid-Michigan. I painted it yellow to match the new (old) house, spray painted the...

So I recently brought a Black Australorp baby home from work. She has what I would describe as a very mild case of splay leg. She is still able to get around, albeit not as gracefully as other chicks. She is still eating and drinking fine. I started her on a leg brace made of vet wrap to help...

Hi, So I'm new here but I have a Cuckoo Maran chick that has leg issues. Below are some pictures of her. Her legs are kinda crooked in and she holds them really close to her body. On top of that her feet do not straighten out. I am able to manually spread her toes but they go back as soon as I...