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I think they are great to have around. I've got a rooster that just loves me. I walk out the door and if he sees me or here's my voice he will start to crow until I come over and pet him. When ever the flock is grazing and I shake a bag of scraps or even just call them they come a running flying...

I cracked an egg fresh from the box and it smelled like a stink bomb. Did I miss an egg or is a chicken laying bad eggs, could it have been stuck in her vent for too long? Any help.

My girl is just about a year old, yesterday she started sounding raspy, like she's smokes a pack a day. LOL. The temperatures here in Indiana have been frigid and it's now just getting in the thirtys. She eats verv well and seems to drink. Could this be the fluctuation in temps causing this, or...

Im looking for some advice, my hen has a bloody comb on the back of it and it looks like two small lacerations to each side of the head beneath the comb. I think either the rooster got a little rough with her and cut her while he did his thing or something tried getting it from above, I believe...

Thanks to everyone who replied, it's like a second family. I did order the saddles for the girls. Happy New Year everyone.

I have 4 hens and 2 Roos. My hens backs are getting torn up bad from my Roos. I'm going to try and build a separate coop for them, but is there some type of wrap I can put on them or is separating them the best thing? Thanks for your help and Happy New Year!

Definitely human door and chicken door but access to you rake shovel and buckets are a must. I built 8 ft walls and then put built a rack to hang my rakes and shovels on and hangers to hang my buckets with feed in them and one with water for a quick hand clean up or just to fill the water up. I...

The roosters got out of hand tonight and hurt one of the hens and then came after me, bad idea. So I had to eliminate 2 right away and I have 2 isolated. My girls are getting beat up and almost killed, I can't have that. I hated to do it but they were out of control, I thought it was a full...

Thanks for all your advice, i knew I was gonna have to get rid of a few, I'm gonna try and keep 2 maybe 3 but have a separate pen for them. I sure am glad I found you guys, wish you were my neighbors. Thanks again, Jim

I have 6 roosters and 4 hens and the roosters are fighting, is there anything to do besides fried chicken for dinner to do with the roosters. I don't wan to kill them but their getting out of hand, my neighbor talked me into getting chickens this year and we decided to hatch them ourselves and...

This is the first time I have ever had chickens, my neighbor who has raised them for years brought over some eggs and I hatched them With a incubator I bought. She got the eggs from a friend and they all hatched, couldnt believe it. The bad thing is we split the chickens and there were 20 so we...

You've got your hands full, I hope he makes it, maybe some crushed oatmeal and milk, keep Him warm, you're doing a great job, wish you were my neighbor.

Cook the bacon crack the eggs and scramble them it's time to enjoy the good stuff. Eat away,eat away, they are yummy in the tummy. I ate my first one and the second ,third and they scrambled just as good as any other one.