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My girls almost act like dogs instead of chickens. People tell me it is unusual to have chickens this tame. I have no idea. These are my first.

My silly girls. I live in a very urban neighborhood. I am actually only 4 miles from our downtown. I love that my neighbors have been accepting.

My nonchicken friends say it is really strange that they follow me around like that. LOL I have never had chickens before so I don't know any different.

I am part of parrot rescue. I can connect you with someone to rescue him/her.

Me, putting the girls to bed.

He is so proud to tell everyone that we have chickens now. I came home from work today and there were 6 people in the backyard and he was showing them the coop and girls.

My husband grew up living and working on a huge battery chicken egg production "farm". 52,000 chickens every X months. He really really did not want chickens. I finally wore him down and we now have 4 Buff Orps. He built them a beautiful chicken palace. Today he was home from work, and I...

I am very new to chickens. I have 4 about 11 week old Buff Orps. I love my girls. They love to come out and free-range in our yard. Since my dogs are trained to not even look at my parrots I began letting the dogs out while the chickens were out. My extremely fluffy sheltie will be...

My girls did it last night for the first time too. I called my husband to tell him. You'd think it was our kids taking their first steps. LOLOL

Thank you! Can you believe they are only about 10 weeks old? My chicks seem much more developed than some. I must be feeding them too much. LOL

My girls went on their first free-range walkabout tonight. They were so cute. When it came time to put them up, I went into their coop and shook the mealworm bag. It was like a chickie stampede!

They are about 8 weeks.

Should I keep putting them up there manually? It gets down to about 45 at night and don't like the idea of them exposed.

Anyone have any ideas?

OK, the girls have been out since last week. Every night, I go out and pick them up and put them into the hen house. They stay once I put them up there if it is dark. They do know to come down in the morning. Will they ever learn to go up? How can I help them.