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I am looking for Turkens (Naked Neck) chickens. I have 3 of them and they are my little dinosaurs. Their personalities are fantastic. Please leave a message if you have any for sale. You must be able to ship. Thank-you.

I was reading about the use of "cat litter" for the floors of the coops...my question is this...isn't this cat litter dangerous for the chickens? I mean, I don't even use "cat litter" for my 4 inside kitties...I use shredded paper...So what is the general consensus on this? Just wondering?

I got my adult hens in April of 2012, and waited for them to molt last year...nothing happened...Well, this past 2-3 weeks (end Sept/mid to end of Oct beg Nov 2013) my hens are loosing their feathers but aren't "naked chickens" yet. I know they won't lay when molting, but how long does molting...

I only have one rooster a Mille Fleur Bantam and 2 Buff, 1 Splash, 1 Black, 1 Mille Fleur hen. Question is this...if I keep breeding back my rooster to the chicks and then their chicks chicks...you know...is it inbreeding and dangerous? I know about dogs and cats in breeding but not chickens...

Help! Hens have been broody and now the chicks are hatching...so what do I do now? Do I try to feed them and water them or do I let the hens take over raising them? Please help now...have 4 chicks already out and around 8 more to go.

I have a Bantam who is laying for the first time and in the past 3 weeks she has laid almost every day...Problem is the eggs are almost round...not oval at all but they are not a perfect round...anyway...will this cause problems with any chicks which might be forming...since the hen does have a...

After nearly 6 months of my girls not laying the youngest ones are starting. Problem is one hen has laid her eggs in the feed pan and with all of this cold the eggs are really cold, possibly frozen...I moved the eggs to a nest box and they took all of the straw and eggs out of the box and...

I have a very dominant hen who will not let my rooster breed. Every time he tries to do his thing, this hen chases him off. She wasn't like this before with my other rooster. She just hates this one. I am considering artificially insemination of my rooster to at least 3 of my hens and have a...

My Bantams quit laying a couple of months ago. My 3 adult hens were each giving 1-2 eggs/day...Then I introduced 4 more to the flock...1 roo/teenager, 2 pullets/1 unsexed. Then all at once...no more eggs! about a month later, opossums found a way into the area and killed the unsex (ended up...

I got 3 hens and 2 chicks in the spring...at that time only one hen was laying...she then stopped...the other hen started and the hen raising the 2 chicks started to lay...So I have been getting 2 eggs/day for a couple of months. One hen went "broody" but she finally went out, but is back again...

While rocking my hen tonight I noticed that there was around a 1" diameter area on her chest without feathers...skin color was normal, but there was this thing which looked like a big pimple on her...so I squeezed it and out popped this 1/4" diameter cheese like or let's say more like a...

Have a hen who is no longer "broody" but still laying daily. She is starting to loose her feathers from her back but there are soft fluffy little feathers filling in. I don't have a rooster so that eliminates that problem. Dust weekly for mites, lice and any other little critters which might...

My hen hatched her adopted eggs (10 of them) and 5 hatched at 20 days, 3 hatched at 21 days and 2 still unhatched as of today. I know that 1 chick from first hatching looked poorly, and the 3 from the next hatching looked rough, but went out today and only have 1 live chick from day 1 hatch...