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My poor little Leghorn laid this egg right in the middle of the run, in the mud. She must have needed to get it out fast. It had blood on it. Poor girl!!!!

I have been wanting to let my chickens free range some in the afternoons when I get home from work. Yesterday it was pouring rain and there were bugs a plenty so we let the girls (and our guy) out. We had to run some errands so we left the coop door open with a light on inside. When we got home...

I am very sad about the current situation in my coop. I have two buff orps who are gorgeous ladies. However, they are the meanest girls in the coop. They chase everyone off from the food and I have seen them jump on some of the smaller hens. I have separated them from the rest of the hens before...

Can you have two roosters in one coop? I have 21 hens and I am looking to get a Barred Rock rooster to mate with my barred rock hens...but I don't want them to be in the "mating coop" aka the chicken tractor forever. Can two roosters coexist? P.S. My other rooster is a RIR

I have an outside dog named Roscoe. He is a boxer/pitbull mix. Yesterday we noticed one side of his face was swollen (about the size of a grapefruit). He was in pain, so I gave him an aspirin (safe for dog consumption). Last night, I checked in again, and noticed it was now an open wound and the...

I thought I knew what I was doing but I picked up my encyclopedia of country living yesterday and...apparently I don't know what I'm doing!! How do you clean your eggs to make them presentable to sell without making them spoil faster?? I'm confused and I want to make sure my friends are...

This little girl is being abused either by my buff orps (I moved them out of the main coop to the chicken tractor yesterday after watching them chase this one and her sisters away from the food) or by my Roo, Waylon. This injury is on her wing. I have read that iodine not only disinfects but...

I have a BR hen that I noticed yesterday her rear end under her tail feathers is bald. All of the other hens have nice fluffy downy feathers there. Should I be concerned??

How do you keep your friends from expecting eggs for free?? I have tried to explain to them that we have to pay for feed and are only asking a little bit of money for each dozen to help pay for the feed. But they act offended and then go to the store and buy month old eggs for more than I'm...

I guess a lot of people know the difference, but I don't... I have two of these girls and they are GORGEOUS!! My dad went back to school (and I'm so proud of him!) for horticulture and one of the girls in his class is moving to DC so she gave us 10 already laying hens, a chicken tractor, 65 egg...

I have one hen who has no tail feathers....and I'm pretty sure its from the other hens bullying her. Is there a way to stop this?? Also I have a few hens who appear to be our rooster's favorite because they are losing feathers on their wings where he grips them, can I do anything about this?? I...

I have been wanting a place to talk to fellow chicken lovers (or in my case....obsessers) and I am so glad I found this!! We have a small chicken operation in our backyard outside of Shelby, NC. We got 23 RIR from my in laws back in the summer. We butchered 9 roosters (yumm!) and lost 2 others...