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I live in Portland, Or, but about 8 miles from the downtown area. My neighborhood isn't rural, but it isn't exactly urban either (I have 5 doug fir trees and 1 cedar tree in my front yard if that tells you anything). I really want to let my flock free range in my yard, but I'm worried about...

I have 4 chicks that are 7.5 weeks old and 2 that are only 4 weeks. The older chicks have been outside in the coop for the last week, but I'm not sure when to introduce the smaller ones. I know a lot of the advice on here is to wait until they are at a similar size, but wouldn't that mean...

not sure if this is the right place to post, but I just heard that plum pits are toxic to chickens. Is this true? My neighbor has about 5 plum trees that all hang over into my yard and right now the birds/squirrels are knocking the fruit down all over (especially in the coop area). I like that...

I have a sinking feeling that my one Welsummer is a roo....if so I will be really disappointed because it's my only one and I was really excited about having a Welsummer in the flock. Can anyone help me determine the sex? The comb is what's scaring me.

Picked up 5 chicks a few days ago from a feed store and was supposed to get two Ameraucanas, two RIRs and one Buckeye. The chick that is supposedly a Buckeye does not look anything like any of the pictures I've found online (I'd never heard of Buckeye before). Can anyone confirm that it is a...

When I got home from work today one of my hens was face down, dead in the middle of the coop. There had been an egg with a smear of blood on it this morning, but I didn't worry about it because I was told it was normal and I didn't see anything that looked like prolapse. She wasn't acting any...

I live in the Pacific NW and, needless to say, it rains here quite a bit. The soil under my run is probably the worst clay soil I've ever seen and it turns into a spongy mess of poo and water anytime it rains. Half of the run is covered and, because there's not much sun this time of year...

I have three chickens. Two of them are 9 month old buff orpingtons and one of them is a 7 month old araucana. One of the buffs has been laying for about 3 months and the araucana has been laying for about 2 months. The problem is that the other buff has never laid an egg! Is this normal? Her...

I think one of my chicks (a barred rock) is a rooster. She has some dark on the front of her legs, but just a little...she also has a very irregular spot on her head and her comb is coming in with a little red at the very tip. She's only 2 weeks old and I don't have another barred rock to...