Thank you for forwarding this very informative article. This site is a wonderful resource for people like me that are new to keeping backyard chickens. Articles like this one help me feel better prepared in the event of a mishap with my flock.
Sorry about your hen. I am new to this group and for some reason I was not able to access the article referred to in response posted by 'azygous'. In case you had the same problem, I have attached a page from a module on raising chickens which I downloaded a couple of months ago from an...
The minute I brought home my chickens, Charlie (the blonde with no black muzzle in my profile picture) decided that it was his mission in life to protect the chickens. Now Charlie sleeps just outside the door into the chicken run. Both dogs have kept the neighborhood coyotes on notice since we...
Hello, I just joined this group after purchasing six Lohmann Browns that I will be picking up at our local feed store in early April. These chickens will be about 12 or 14 weeks old, so I will not need to start out from the chick stage. I have not raised chickens since I was growing up on the...