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Quote: This behavior should be sharply discouraged. No exceptions. Ever. This is an act of aggression towards the birds and can eventually lead to chase, increased excitement by both animals, catch and hold, or carry in the mouth, or even kill. It may seem like a harmless game but it is...

Here are my two dogs. The brindle is mine, the black is my new foster dog who is a total sweetheart. Note their identical ears!

I have a boxer/pit bull mix and now have a pit bull/mystery mix puppy that I just brought home on Tuesday. I introduced the first dog to my chicks right after I got them. I held them, pet them, and made my dog smell them. He could care less about them now except he follows them around to clean...

I feed solid gold. It's a little spendy but it's high in calories so I don't need to feed as much. My 50 lb dog gets 1 1/3 cup dry food a day, plus 1/4 cup canned food by Natural Balance frozen in his Kong, and peanut butter. It all stink pretty bad, but he loves it!

I feel your pain. My coop has been a never ending project since April. I have on my to-do list for the weekend more modifications. It's a great feeling to think that I built the coop myself ("No, my Dad did not help me"), but this is when I really want a Honey, so I can have a honey-do list! I...

My RIR laid an egg two days in a row, then nothing for a couple days. My white leghorn has been laying for about 2 weeks but is very inconsistent (but easy to pick out being the only white egg!) She's laid only 4-5 eggs during the two weeks. I have 5 chickens and they have been laying now for...

I have a "clean egg" box. All eggs that go into this box are cleaned and ready for me to use. Unwashed eggs go in the other boxes. I decided to do it this way because I kept forgetting to wash the egg before using it. The last couple days all eggs have been washed right away because I used up...

My hens were really skittish, the only way I could catch one was to corner it with the fence. But as soon as they started doing the squat they suddenly became tame because when I reach for them they stop, squat, and don't move and let me pet them. At first I thought they were scared, because it...

It sounds like a good first try. I canned peaches for the first time without the help of my Mom last year and decided I'd do cold packing to skip a step. After boiling there was 2-3" of emptyness on the bottom of each jar! I switched to hot packing after that first batch...

Thanks everyone! It's our first contest. Can't wait to enter more. That just means more excuses to take pictures of my girls.

If you're cold packing, it's because the peaches cook down when you boil the jars. If you're hot packing, it's normal. You can only pack so many peaches in the jar.

No rooster - forgot to mention that.

My hen's tail recently began taking on a frazzled look. I've looked at it a couple times, but I don't see any insects. I see my hens occasionally picking feathers off each other, but nothing that looks like pecking at this one. Moulting? She's only 5 months old. When I look close, I see bare...

I stopped caring and a couple days later I had three eggs in the nesting boxes!

I used my dog's name also, Henry "Hank" Sue, as a tribute to two of the best musicians of all time. I'm a girl though...... somewhat misleading I guess.

56 days is something to think about. I wonder how much residue was detected? And if that's just from a dusting, I wonder what it's like from ingesting. I did have that thought as I watched them eat all of it. Thankfully the chickens have done a great job taking care of all the earwigs and I...

Thank you! Those are the answers I was hoping for. And that you for the compliments. For being free chicks, I agree, they sure are beauties! I'm partial to Sasha because she's so classic looking and bright white, but boy does she have an attitude. I didn't notice Betty's legs changed color. I...

...Because it turned out OK! In my sevin research I found a lot of questions about the safety of its use on poultry but not a lot of comments on chickens ingesting it in large quantities. One of the reasons I got my chickens is for earwig control. For outside the fence I bought some Sevin...

Here are two of my five chickens. The other three are obviously a barred rock and RIR. They all came from the "free chick days" at the local feed store, so I know they're just going to be standard breeds. I can't tell the difference between all the white chicken breeds and the same with the tan...

I get you, Spook. For health reasons, maybe? I'd say bacon flavored salt is better than nothing.