I haven't been on here in quite a while but need some advice on a problem I am dealing with and value advice from members of this group!
We live just outside of city limits in a small neighborhood where a number of residents, including us, raise chickens. However, we have one neighbor who has...
We have been experiencing issues with squirrels coming into our girls' run/coop to steal from their feed bin. My parents saw the squirrels in our wild bird feeders and told us we should put some crushed red pepper in as they apparently don't like the smell/taste and will leave the feeders...
I have finally joined the backyard chicken community after raising our girls for about 9 months. We started with 4 girls: a frizzled bantam cochin, a red sex-link, black sex-link and a barred rock. Within the first month, our barred rock got overly daring, hopped the fence and couldn't get...