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When my girls run got flooded out this winter, my husband found some pallets and put them in the run and then covered those with green outdoor carpet like stuff. It worked great and lengthened feet dry.

So glad I found this thread. We are having flooding here in Oregon and my poor girls run is a lake. They roam free most of the day, but I feel really bad they can't go in the run to get out of the downpour. They do not seem to like being in there at all when it is this wet. I was worried it...

I just looked at the PoultryMD site. Great visual on toxic plants. Ferns are shown as toxic but my chickens eat on them all the time. Should I dig them all up? Many of the other plants shown they leave alone so not sure why they eat ferns.

What an adventure these girls have been. I never knew they would be so much fun. We have been anxiously waiting for our first egg and yesterday I found such a treasure. I am not sure which one of our girls laid this egg but I suspect it is my Red Sex Link, Alice. S

My girls are flying all over the place so I need to clip them but kind of scared to. They have discovered they love the cherries that fall from the tree and are now trying to get up to the ones in the tree and then it is just a short flight over the fence. Thank you for all your help on this site.

My chickens are named Alice, Clara and Evelyn. They are named after my mom, grandmother and great aunt. The three ladies all hung out together and were best friends. I think all three ladies would think it special that I named my chickens after them.l

What a great article. I have so many of these growing around my property. I especially like the photos you shared; it makes it so much easier to identify them. Thank you so much.

we are getting ready to move our chickens out to their coop and run but it has a huge wisteria vine that crawls around 2 sides of where we were going to put them. Does this mean we have to rethink our spot? Help!

The girls escaping to the outside. I can't believe how fast they have grown.

We are about to finish the coop. My question is, we want to put it at the end of the platform we have to catch the bird seed from the wild birds we feed, is this too close?

We are very new to this whole chicken family thing and I am wondering if we can put the bedding pellets we clean out of the plastic tub directly onto the garden? I realize this is probably a silly question.

I am brand new to this adventure. We can only have 3 chickens in my town and no free range, They have to be enclosed. Now trying to figure out a coop and run and where to put it. I am surprised at how fast these little girls are growing. We have to keep a fence over top of their container...

Hello, I am in Gresham.