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I live on 10 acres and would let my chickens free range during the day frequently. They are cooped at night. Well, the chickens liked to go visit the neighbors. We've asked if they were a problem and it was no, no, no.. this has gone...
Our back steps are a pretty decent sized structure, Landing, steps, landing with a turn, steps. My chickens are roosting there at night and my husband usually comes out to put them away in the coop. This drives me NUTS because they'll sit there and poop and it covers the back steps & landing (so...
My husband found someone who wanted to give away 13 baby chicks, about 3 wks old- 4 Black Jersey Giants and 9 Barred Rocks. We picked them up today and foolishly just added them in with our own 4-5 wk chicks.. it's a beautiful day out so we brought them outside to graze on the grass (under a...
We found one of our birds dead this morning. We have no idea what happened. I wasn't really out with them yesterday as I've been sick for the last few days. She went into the coop herself last night and my husband said she didn't look injured. I have no clue where to start to figure out what...
A bit of back story: I live on 10 acres but we're about 2 wide x 5 acres long (hope this makes sense, we border our neighbors about 5 acres on either side). One of our neighbors has some big, mean dogs that he wasn't keeping on his own property. We've dealt with Animal Control to little avail...