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Thanks for all the replies. I must have been one of those kids who didn't experience enough death because it would make me very sad if the chicks got killed by the other chickens or goats. I'd probably be more saddened then my kids would because I seem to be the one most attached to all our...

She's already in a cat carrier that the chickens like better as a nest box than their actual nest boxes. I was thinking about putting another carrier in there for an additional box that the other hens will like and use. Do the roosters even react to chicks?

Our bantam has been broody for a week now. I'm thinking about letting her raise chicks so the kids can see the whole process. Is it always necessary to separate the broody hen and eggs from the other chickens? Broody mama is a bantam and we have five other full sized hens plus a rooster. The...

Uh, yeah, Uzuri is right-- there is a shorter ladder and the goats seem to get up it faster than the chickens! The goats love to climb and jump on any stump with ease or even the top of our ark style chicken tractor. I think we are going to try a day-time feeding station in our the ark-style...

Good to read this thread. I have new girls (Buff orp, Black sex-link and two Easter-eggers) and they are all laying the tiniest eggs I've ever seen. One of the first green ones actually resembled a robin's egg! Is there anything you can feed them to help them increase egg size more quickly?

I think the chicken door is only about 12 inches max (maybe less) and the goats have no problem getting in at all, and yes they have horns. They will crawl to get to chicken food if they have to. They like to get in and headbutt the poor chickens out of the coop!

We're new to chickens this summer and we now have 7 regular sized hens plus a banty hen and one rooster in a large fenced area with two pygmy goats (we had the goats first). The chickens are in a new coop we built similar to the Purina free coop plan double-sized but the problem is we didn't...

That's what I had thought too. Any ideas on whether it is better to put the rooster in with them all right away or to keep him separate and just let the girls get used to each other?

We have three hens that have been living in a pen with our pygmy goats in their own small Ark style tractor for about a year. We got new chicks this spring and have 4 hens and a rooster that are now about 5 months old and girls are starting to lay in a screened run that is separate (and far...