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For the second day in a row, there has been a young hawk flying around near my chicken coop and run. He's brave and flies low to the ground and flies from tree branch to tree branch, until the crows run him off. I like to let my chickens free range a couple of days a week but not this week....

I have one rooster and two hens that are spoiled rotten! Whenever I let them free range a couple of days a week, I can always count on them to come up on my front porch to visit me if they see me sitting there. On this particular day, it was nice and sunny and they all decided at the same...

I don't free range my rooster and 2 hens every day but if the weather is good and I'll be home all day, I will let them out of their run. On Friday, I left them out for a few hours and I noticed they were very antsy and vocal most of the day and spent a lot of time under my front porch or on...

After keeping a 3 month roo for a couple of months and having him think of me as his personal flogging equipment, I traded him off to my daughter for a nicer one. It's been several weeks now since the trade and I couldn't be happier with this new rooster! He does a pretty good job looking...

My rooster is about 6 months old now and so far he's been a pretty good boy. He has a couple girlfriends and has figured out how to play the game "piggyback" just fine. Yesterday I cleaned out the coop and run like I do every week and spent some time with them giving them special treats...

Last night I got home way after dark from an out of town high school soccer game that my granddaughter was playing in. Yesterday was a cold and windy day here in the mountains of Western North Carolina! I left my coop door open in the run so my 2 hens and rooster could go inside their coop at...

I left my dogs out last night for one last potty break before bedtime and 2 of them ran over near my old pasture and started sniffing at something laying there half on it's side. So I go over with my trusty LED mini flashlight and see a soaking wet, cute, little, furry thing laying there in the...

Now that my 2 hens have started to lay their first eggs this past week, I have a question about their food. I still have about a half of a large bag of Chick Grower feed leftover from when they were younger. Could I finish up that bag first before I start feeding them Layer food?

I have a very small flock, 2 hens and a rooster, that's enough for one person. Well, yesterday and today I got my first 2 eggs from my beautiful little girls who will be 24 weeks old tomorrow. I love my chickens......

I guess the fox mating season has begun around here. Two nights ago, I was awakened around 3 AM by the barking of one up in my woods....actually, my barking dogs inside my house were the ones who woke me up first. Again tonight, I heard one or two of them over in my neighbor's cow pasture...

My daughter just texted me this picture of her pygmy goat's eye. They were out of town yesterday, and just discovered his eye was like this today. He lives out in a pasture, has a nice shelter, and the only other animals with him are his sister, mommy and aunt and several free range chickens...

I asked this question in another thread but thought maybe it would make a good BYC forum topic. Here goes...... I've always heard that game like deer, elk, bear, turkeys, etc. have a different flavor of the meat based on whatever mast they've been eating. Like a deer harvested in the...

I had a small coop made by our high school carpentry class and there are heavy-duty wired doors on either side of the coop. One door will be the entrance into the secured run, the other door apparently is where I am to slide out the metal tray for cleaning or allow them out to free range. I am...

Today the high school's carpentry class got some nicer weather and were able to come out and finish building my run. They delivered my coop last week but we had some nasty weather and they couldn't finish it up. It's a small coop that can only house 1-10 chickens in it but I'll only want to...

I guess I should finally introduce myself since I've been lurking for awhile here on the forum. I had a nice flock of chickens about 20 years ago but after they lived productive long lives and passed on, my then husband tore down my chicken coop and that was the end of that. I've missed...