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My daughter has a trio of bantam calico cochins that she is raising for 4-H (and her own fun!) She is wanting to expand and wants more genetics to add to her small flock and has bought an incubator that she can't wait to use. She would like to add some frizzle genetics into her birds and is...

Yes she did, she is improving every day now though

We have been treating them!

My daughter was given this chicken and we are at a loss for figuring out what kind or cross she is. She lays a light green egg and seems to have some very short stocky legs. My daughter is 7 and has looked through all of the poultry catalogs to try to figure her out and we would love to hear...

TMy daughter has a white polish bantam with frizzled feathers,we are going to enter him in the county fair and this will be our first fair, should I enter him as "white polish", or as "Polish-any other"?

Thanks, I had also bought an exhaust fan to put towards the back of the coop, has anyone tried this? And I think that venting the Windows and leaving a vent space between the door and roof along the entire side as we had originally planned should give us quite a bit of ventilation...I am...

Thanks for your response. I do plan to buy the feed and. We plan to eat the cockerals but maybe keep one to get us some fertile eggs to incubate and hatch some of those additional pullets we would need next year. We have some red sex linked, Easter eggers, buff Orpington and blue laced red...

Ok, so some help, I will have two Windows both 24" by 24" that open on each side as well as an entire wall that opens and the chicken run door, but I know I didn't explain that, what other ventilation is recommended remembering that I live in the north and it gets very cold in the winter?

We have just joined backyard chickens but have kept chickens in the past. We have recently bought 26 straight run chicks and are finishing up a coop for them for when they are older. Our daughter is very good with all of our animals, loves chickens, and would like to start a small egg business...

We are in the process of building our coop and would like to keep it light weight, we have used pink foam to insulate the inside and will have interior walls of paneling, has anyone tried just tyvek on the outside of their coop? The pic is of our coop so far, and of course is not near done!