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That was my idea but my husband doesn't like it much. He suggested motion activated sprinklers but since the chickens get 90% of their food by free ranging they only hide from the rain if it is a severe storm.

The guy that built our coop didn't read our county ordnances well and my coop is about 3 feet too close to the peoperty line due to the total square footage of the coop and covered run. If I call the county on him then they could get on me about my coop. It is a 24x31 metal carport with...

He will not do that and the front yard isn't fenced. If anything happens like his chickens crapping all over my husband's work vehicles and the carport for them he says "The chickens do what the chickens do." He is also fond of telling us that he leaves his hens out because he wants to know...

We had to do a lot of grading in our yard and with heavy clay soil it is a nightmare to get the grass back. My chickens are kept in a coop and run but my neighbor lets his free range and they prefer my yard. How do I keep them out of my yard to get grass eatablished? I'm talking aobut a half...

I know. It is the wrong time of year for this but my teeny girls are determined to be moms. One is a Silkie x Bantam EE, one is a OEGB, one is a bantam Cochin, and my last one is a rosecomb. The Silkie Cross is over a year old but the others from the first week of Chick Days and are only a...

I don't think she will accept older peeps. I've had luck introducing chicks when they were less than 5 days old but any older and it just doesn't work.

I need nuggets for my broody on dud eggs. I had 4 broodies and 3 of them have new nuggets but candling tells me that my 4th broody is on duds. She wants peeps of her own. Does anyone have any day olds near me? She could handle 3-4 bantams but only a couple of full sized birds because she is...

If I got a 50 gallon pond liner to use as a bog and fed it into a 100 gallon pond what kind of pump will I need for two ducks? They are golden layers so largish but my only ducks and they don't swim a lot. I had a pond built into my run but the chickens kept fouling it up more than the ducks...

We are building a new mega coop and run. I have fought gapeworm twice in my old run and while I have found no mites or evidence of mites on my chickens I do find mites under the bricks I put their feeders and waterers on if I don't spray regularly with Neem oil. What can I do treatment wise...

Poop and yucky things are part of living with RAD.

I've worked retail and restaurants and find that they are the least tolerant of family emergencies or circumstances. I have 5 children, including an adopted son from Ukraine who has a ton of special needs and Reactive Attachment Disorder so I often have to tend to meetings and medical emergencies.

My youngest is 3, I have not worked since 2002, some of my kids homeschool through K12, and I'm considering going back to school to be a vet tech. However, I don't have reliable sitting and don't want to put her in daycare because she has never adapted to the church nursery. So, are there any...

We had the same thing happen yesterday. I had the coop ready for my older chicks and now it is a disaster.

The orpington and wyandottes are straight run. I'm not that lucky

They are only 1 and 2 weeks old