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Do I need to be concerned about globs of hardened poo balls on my otherwise healthy hens? I live in Maine so it's cold. Thanks!

I've been reading about solutions for preventing water from freezing. I'm worried about an extension chord and heating element in a barn. Do any of you have photos of your water set up to post? If I see what you all do I may feel better about buying a heater for my waterer. Thanks!!

I went into the coop to check on the girls midday and found their plastic food server covered with splattered blood. Usually food hangs in the run but with a snow storm going on they we confined too coop which is 9x12 and I have 6 pullerts about 8 mos old and in very good health, Dominique's. I...

Hi, I teach a 5th grade literacy program in a high poverty school in central Maine. Last year we raised 1 chick from an egg. He turned out to be a prize winning rooster we named Solo. He now belongs to a very happy to have him 10 year old boy. This year our town passed an ordinance permitting...

Hi, I've been feeding my chickens leftovers from our kitchen and garden. Mostly veggies with a little rice, pasta, bread. I heard that you leave it in their run and it will compost adding a nice layer of warm bedding. I was wondering won't that attract wild animals such as racoons and rats...

Hi, I have a problem with our run. It is attached to a 3 sided addition of our barn. The coop is in a stall in the barn. The pop door opens up into the run which is 1/2 under roof cover and 1/2 just wire fencing cover. We have been using a tarp to cover the run. Well, the run gets wet. Today we...

Hi, Wondering if anyone uses homeopathy with your chickens. If so can you share a success story? Or if you have a handy homeopathy first aid kit what's in it. Thanks, Mary

Finished my coop last week. Girls have been very happy in their new home. Now it's time for the run. Any suggestions, tips on a run? I know to use hardware cloth that chicken wire is not predator proof. I know washers and/or wood over the edges rather than staples. Anything else? 1/2 the run...

Hi, We finished our horse stall conversion/coop that I posted about last weekend and put the chicks in. They did great their first night. One thing I notice is that the coop is really dark. At 9:00 this morning still really dark. And by 7:00 last night, dark. There are windows but they are...

Hi, My chickens are between 6-7 weeks old. They have been sleeping under a red heat lamp. But since it's hot here I turned the heat lamp off and at night time they just all cuddle up together at the end of the roost. All on top of each other as soon as the sun goes down. Then at sunrise they...

Hi, We are in the process of redoing a stall in our barn for chickens. Plywood is up and we've figured out how to predator proof it. Now we're wondering about ventilation. There is a door that has access into the barn which can be opened once we get a screen made. And across from that is a...

Hi, We're new at Backyard Chickens. A very generous friend gave me some Dominique eggs to incubate with my school kids. 1 hatched. The kids fell in love. We called her Solo. I planned to give the chick back to her but instead she asked if I'd like 3 more Dominiques to keep her company. Of...

Hi! I'm very new to the world of chickens. We live in Maine and have an old 3 floor, 3 stall barn with hay loft. It's an old barn but in good shape. We have 9 Dominique chicks that are almost ready to be in a coop. We have decided to convert one of the horse stalls into a coop. It's not secure...