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I didn't go out and get chickens. They sort of became mine accidentally. (Whole story here: https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/me.1210196/ ) They started laying and now I find that I can't eat the eggs! Nothing wrong with them. I just have this weird psychological thing about eating the...

I have two Rhode Island Reds that, until now, have been 100% free range. I'm getting ready to put up a coop for them. I'm just wondering how they might react to going from free range to coop after such a long time. (They're still under a year old but both have started laying.) I also want them...

I'm getting ready to put up a coop for my two Rhode Island Reds. I saw a post where someone has hardware cloth on the ground. The photo looked like the cloth was around the outside of the coop but not actually on the ground inside the coop. Would someone please explain why I would want to put...

This will give you my background. https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/me.1210196/ My two chickens aren't really mine. I bought some food for them - I guess you call it "scratch feed" because it's grains and such. I bought a smallish bag of DuMor Five-grain "Premium" scratch feed. Seems...

Okay, not 100, but a few. One of my adopted chickens has laid her first (probably) egg and now I find I have new questions. Will she continue to sit on this egg? How long? Will she continue to lay in the same location? (She's under a bush in my front yard.) And if I take this egg from her...

New to chickens. I have two. Just posted my intro. I've noticed that I seem to have an Alpha Chicken and a follower. It's just a sort of "I'll follow you, you lead," situation. No dominance or bullying. Is this a common thing with chickens? Does one sort of take over and rule the flock?

Here's how it happened. I live in a rural area in central Texas. My neighbor (across the street) got two chickens. He has a "coop" but it's a wreck. It didn't contain his chickens and they kept coming out into his front yard. They spent more time in front than in his back yard. He would...