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We had to do a lot of grading in our yard and with heavy clay soil it is a nightmare to get the grass back. My chickens are kept in a coop and run but my neighbor lets his free range and they prefer my yard. How do I keep them out of my yard to get grass eatablished? I'm talking aobut a half...

I need nuggets for my broody on dud eggs. I had 4 broodies and 3 of them have new nuggets but candling tells me that my 4th broody is on duds. She wants peeps of her own. Does anyone have any day olds near me? She could handle 3-4 bantams but only a couple of full sized birds because she is...

If I got a 50 gallon pond liner to use as a bog and fed it into a 100 gallon pond what kind of pump will I need for two ducks? They are golden layers so largish but my only ducks and they don't swim a lot. I had a pond built into my run but the chickens kept fouling it up more than the ducks...

We are building a new mega coop and run. I have fought gapeworm twice in my old run and while I have found no mites or evidence of mites on my chickens I do find mites under the bricks I put their feeders and waterers on if I don't spray regularly with Neem oil. What can I do treatment wise...

My youngest is 3, I have not worked since 2002, some of my kids homeschool through K12, and I'm considering going back to school to be a vet tech. However, I don't have reliable sitting and don't want to put her in daycare because she has never adapted to the church nursery. So, are there any...

Is real and may cause a fight. I got Lavender Orpingtons today. They are a week old and have a few feathers. They really are purple. I expected a grey color with purple undertones but they really are purple. My 12 year old is in heaven.

I am up to 14 chickens. I don't dare believe that they were all sexed correctly and are all female. So, how likely is it that I have to keep roos by themselves or do they get along in the flock? My dh doesn't want roosters at all but I doubt I can re-home them easily. If breed matters I have...

When we got our babies we were going to clean out the old coop on the property to use. I had not checked it out in detail or we would have waited a year. Now, I'm getting it done but I want to go throat punch the people that lived here before we bought it. The dude seriously never cleaned out...

My older babies aren't ready to go outside yet but they are outgrowing their current home. What can I do to give them more room indoors for the next couple of weeks while I finish remodeling the old coop in my back yard? They are 3 week old RIR and I have 6.

I think I want to go with the little watering cups when I move my chicks out to their coop. If I wanted to put them on a 5 gallon bucket would I need to do more than drill the right size holes in the bucket and silicone around the edge to prevent leaks?

I caved and got 4 new babies today. They cages are side by side and they are all sleeping close to each other. When one set peeps the other set watches them. The ones on the left are almost 2 week old RIR and the right are brand new blue laced red wyandottes.

When do I need to add some grit into the babies feed? I got them on Friday and they are almost 2 weeks old. They are on Mana Pro medicated chick crumbles.

I can't find chicks locally. I am afraid to order day old chicks because I worry that I would lose many of them due to the stress of shipping. Is it a legitimate worry? I don't think my kids would handle it well at all.

I'm Kelly, wife, mom to 5 kids, 2 cats, a dog, a geriatric beta fish, and 6 rir chicks.