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thank you everyone I appreciate it!!!

how long does it take for them to go to sleep if I go in there around 930 when it is pretty dark will it be ok I just dont want to be attacked he sleeps on the roost facing the door

I have a stupid question I have a mean rooster that someone with a farm and lots of acreage is coming for tom. Every time he sees me he tries to attack me life is too short to be afraid to walk around my own yard. So my question he would be hard to catch so she is coming first thing in the...

I have about 10 Silkie x Leghorn Cross chicks that just hatched their dad is the Silkie Roo and Moms are Leghorns I was just wondering for people that have these kind of crosses how big the eggs are I am thinking about keeping some I have to replenish some of my flock and I was also going to get...

The next door neighbor has a compost pile and they are over there frequently there isn't any vets open today around here and the pet hospital told me they don't do livestock I am going to head to feed supply maybe I can get a antibiotic there

I have a 7 month old sick brown leghorn her symptoms are very listless, she walks around sometimes but appears very disoriented, last night when everyone went into the coop she just stood in the yard staring, she hasn't come out of the coop this morning just sitting there her comb is very pale...

I hav e 5 Leghorns and 2 silkies the coop is 8 x 10 and the run is fenced in because I was originally going to fence them in and it is about 20 x 40 thats just a estimate it may be a little bigger

My chickens are laying eggs everywhere but where they should be it is a easter egg hunt which I am not winning I thought they had stopped laying because of the shorter days until I found a stash until I put 2 and 2 together so this is what happened and hopefully someone has some advice for me I...

I have 4 hens and ended up with 2 roosters I am going to look for a home for one of them but right now I have 2 they are all about 20 weeks I got two 8 week old chicks about 4 weeks ago the chickens free range during the day so I kept the babies in the chicken yard and put them in a dog coop at...

Yes thanks we used lots of hardware cloth but I am going to talk to my husband about another window!

Quote: The coop is about 5 x 10 and tall enough for me to stand up in and I am 5' 4" we only have the one window in the door and the roof rafters are open for ventilation, I asked my husband about putting another window in he is worried that is more room for a predator to get in, A chicken...

So you think I have 4 Roosters? Oh No!!!!

They even told me that the Leghorns would lay white eggs and the others brown I am heart broken if that is true!

OMG do you mean they won't be laying hens? Are you kidding me!!!

By the way while I am asking since the Reds were wrong are the white ones Leghorns or did they give me more bad info?