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Does anyone make up their own scratch? What are you using? We feed our hens organic laying pellets from Blue Seal but we can not find organic scratch plus our hens leave most of the scratch/corn laying on the ground for the chipmunks to eat. I was thinking about mixing up some grains for...

I was wondering about getting my own oyster shell. We live at the ocean and can pick up oyster shells all over the place. Can we just wash it and smash it up for the chickens? Washing sure if they only use freshwater oyster shell or just any oyster shell. Dorothy

We have a nice pair of Lemon Cuckoo Orpingtons that would make a great breeding pair. We picked up what we thought was 3 hens from a breeder here in NJ and low and behold we have a rooster. We are not suppose to have roosters in our town so we are trying to get him a new home that will...

Our chickens have discovered that they can get up onto of the well box and look into the kitchen window. Now we have chickens staring into our kitchen asking us to share some food with them!

During these really hot days I was wondering if I should put some ice into the waters to help keep the chickens cool? I feel so bad when they are panting. Dorothy

We are finally getting a few eggs! Two of our hens just started laying and we are so excited. The eggs are small we were just wondering if they get larger as the chickens get older? Dorothy

Do Guineas do ok living with chickens or do they need more free time? Some said you should start with keets or it is hard to keep them at home is that true? Dorothy

Hi, two weeks ago we picked up what we thought was 3 Lemon Buff Orpingtons but we think this one is a rooster? What do you think? These two are young and stay together, the rest of the flock just chases and pecks at them so we put them in a separate pen and named them Blondie and Dagwood...

Sorry if I'm repeating a thread or topic but I searched everything and can't find the answer. Here is my question; what makes a chicken a cuckoo? I just got 3 lemon cuckoo orpington hens, 1 has very visible bars the other two are barely noticeable. As I started to search info on cuckoo I...

Hello, Last night we got three new chickens, they are Lemon Cuckoo Orpingtons. One is approx 1 to 11/2 old and the other 2 are 6 months old. Our current flock of 8 are 6-7 months old have been raised together. We put the new girls into the coop late last night so they went right to roost...

Good Morning, Our little flock has finally made it to the outside coop and yesterday they walked down their ramp and into their yard. I was so excited to see them pecking the grasses and running around. However, inside their coop area we left an old rosemary bush and an azalea bush. Today...

Hello, we are new to having chicks so sorry for a silly question. Do Ameraucanas come in banty and standard size? We got two Ameraucanas and one is as large as everyone else (the orpingtons and barreds) but the one Daphne (she is my avatar) is so tiny. They are just two weeks old and she has...

Hello, I'm Dorothy and my husband is Matt, we live in NJ with our five dogs, 1 cat and 9 new baby chicks. We are new to being parents of baby chicks. Our girls are; 2 Buff Orpingtons (Peaches & Honey), 2 Rhode Island Reds (Carol Burnett & Lucille Ball), 2 Ameraucanas (Winona & Daphne), 2...