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It looks so painful. It lasts a few seconds and then everybody is eating like nothing happened. It’s bizarre, if you’re not a chicken.

With the standards, at first it was a stare down with my head hen, she then went after him and he ran away. The next time she stared him down but he fought back. The next time, they did the stare down and he just went after her, the whole mating shabang. Now my big girls give him space.

Yes! He dominates his flock, (another bantam and 2 legbars) he puffs up and digs holes for them, or will scream when he finds a pile of worms, and his little flock thinks he’s G-ds gift! They follow him around, and if I take him away (I had to clean his feet) they screamed the entire time. They...

And not to emasculate my boy but he sure is tiny. Idk how much damage he could do to a predator lol, not that’s he’s expendable! I just need him to ya know- ‘eat here, come here, go over there, run something’s coming, stop fighting’ he’s just little. I’m positive my big girls could kill him if...

Right, and that’s what I want. I figure a rooster knows more about managing a flock than I do. So this bantam roo of mine dominating my standard gals, is how he lets them know he’s head honcho? Or is he just being rotten?

Hi, first year chicken owner, and I have a flock of mixed aged chickens, From 2 weeks to 15 weeks. I’ve separated them into 3 mini flocks based on age. The last 2/3 weeks I’ve slowly been integrating everybody. Things have been going well, every once in a while one of my big girls will side eye...

Omg what is wrong with me?!? This is common sense stuff! Maybe I need a cookie..

Why do you want top hinged windows? On one side of my coop are top hinged windows, I was thinking of replacing those. Idk why..I just imagine a raccoon learning to open windows lol. Should I keep those then?

Ooo good idea! I’ve definitely got to keep and broken glass out of coop! Thanks for the tip!

And previous ppl had chickens for over 20 years, it worked just fine apparently.

lol where were you a week ago??? I over think and complicate EVERYTHING!

I’m in caswell county NC, and yes those temps fluctuate! Oh look it’s spring time- no wait an ice storm. When I mentioned shutters I meant actual functional shutters. I’m all for a nice looking coop, but I’m a functional over form gal! Are my chickens safe and healthy? That’s my absolute...

And don’t you worry your pretty little head @wrathsfarm I’ve got a nice new incubator for Kongs bambino’s!!

There’s no way I’d even plug this thing in. And I’d have no idea how to use it. Looked like this.

I may have thrown it in the trash can, I’ll dig around! How about some 1949 stamps, 1950s magazine and newspapers or a pamphlet on babies and polio?? Mason jars from the 40s a whole flipping box, don’t ask me why this stuff was in the corner.. no clue. Also apparently the guy liked to take a nip...

the coop that I’m redoing, (it’s A huge B doesn’t look like the guy cheaped out on anything.) my older neighbor told me the guy had chickens for 20+ years until he got too old to care for them. And I mean this guy really kept the coop up, it had hardwood floors, and storm windows. Unfortunately...

Ok yall are being silly! You crochet a little hat and tie a bow under their chins..jeez everybody knows that! I seriously don’t think my chickens would like me tying anything under anywhere lol.

I was having terrible issues with keeping the girls cool. It’s HOT in the south, it’s technically not summer yet and today’s average is 96 degrees. I finally moved them to the “big” coop, and it’s covered by trees. It’s a 15-20 degree difference! It’s awesome. I have no plans to add more holes...

I hoping my birds will do ok. In the south our winters are MOSTLY mild-ish. This is my first year owning chickens, and I never considered comb size, I didn’t know to actually. I was mostly researching docile chickens, or friendly breeds. I’ve learned SO much in the short time I’ve had them!

Ah ok, so back to the crocheted hats idea lol