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First of all - I LOVE this website!! Everytime I have a chicken question, I go here and see what other folks have done. It's great!! Second - I ended up with a rooster! Got my 6 girls in a batch of 32 (ordered with a friend). The hatchery has a 90% sucess rate with sexing, and I pick the only...

Once one decides to take a bath, they ALL want to get down and dirty!!!!

My girls are 12 weeks now, and are still not roosting at night! They loved the small practice perches in the brooder, but when I moved them and the perches to the coop, they stopped roosting! The coop has a long roost near the top of the roost. I thought that might be too high at first, so my...

Thanks for all your suggestions! I will try keeping them in for a couple of days (when the weather isn't so humid) and I'll let you know how it works. Thanks again!

Their feed is always kept in the coop. I have water both in the coop and outside. They are confined to a pen, so they have nowhere else to sleep! When it gets dark, they huddle in a corner of the pen together. When they see me or my husband, they "peep" at us to come get them. We place them in...

My 8 week old girls have been in their outside coop for 1 1/2 weeks now. They still won't go from the pen into the coop at night. A friend here suggested we keep them in the coop for 2-3 days so they learn that's their home. I'm afraid they will be MISERABLE not getting let out to the pen in the...

Congrats! Can't wait for my girls to be old enough to start laying eggs! I might have to bronze the first one!!

I do live in Maine - on the midcoast. Great place to live AND raise chickens!

I live in Maine and it can be in the 50's at night. I was told that they needed the heat at night until they were 10-12 weeks old!

Hope I can learn from all of you who have raised chickens before! I am new to this, but am very excited. I have 6 chicks who are 9 weeks old.

I'm new to this website and a newbie chicken handler! My 6 chicks are 9 weeks old. They have been outside in a high-rise coop now for a week. We have started letting them out in an attached pen. They LOVE coming outside, but I'm having a problem with them not going back in the coop at night! I...