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My wife and I like to go to a neighborhood gym twice a week to attend a water aerobics class that doesn't start till 6:30pm. The hens will put themselves up on the roost inside the henhouse, but we are not there to close the henhouse up (to protect them from predators). So my neighbor comes...

Her name is Blueberry, and she's got it good alright -- my wife and I stop to feed her out of our hand every day when we tend to the chickens. We have a heat panel in her henhouse for the winter, heated waterers in every henhouse, we put a big industrial fan in there for the summer, lighting on...

ChickNanny13, You wouldn't happen to be located somewhere within an hour of Memphis, TN are you? Cuz I could give you a hen or two to keep your little lady company if you are.

I was just wondering how old your oldest chicken is? Am I the only one running an avian retirement villa? My oldest hen will be 9 YEARS OLD in late March, 2018! We threw her a birthday party for her 8th birthday, guess we will again for her 9th. But anyway, wondering if any of the rest of...

I have successfully brought chickens into the house, housing them in a large dog crate. Put the chicken in a busy room so it will have company. Give it things to do. I've given a lone chicken corn on the cob, so it can pluck out the kernels, or a seed block, or maybe a special snack of dried...

My new Brinsea Maxi II Advanced Incubator just arrived Saturday. I plugged it up and ran it for 24 hours without eggs in it, to see how it would work. I have two Mini Advanced (7 egg) incubators, and have had alot of success with them. But everytime you need to add water, it means taking the...

I have a bunch of black copper maran chicks between 2 weeks old and 4 months old, ages are staggered. It helps when you have both males and females of the same age so you can compare them. But this bird looks like my pullets, not my roo. I have a five week old couple, born about five weeks...

Somebody's breakfast plate is pretty empty, with all the eggs I've been hatching !

Baloney !

So I'm 8 years old today. Don't you call me an Old Lady !

"Yeah, that's right! I'm 8 years old now -- so where do I sign up for Social Security ?"

Are we chicken soup ?

My little Ameraucana hen - her name is Blueberry - is celebrating her 8th birthday today! We're having a party for her, and all of her flockmates are invited. We will be serving a large, fresh load of their favorite spring weeds (which they LOVE!), plus plenty of black oil sunflower...

Is proper balance REALLY so important?

I'm Daddy's Little Angel !

This is the little lady when she was about 36 hours old. Can you believe this little lady is about to turn 8 YEARS OLD ??? This picture was taken on March 25, 2009:

I have a little hen who will celebrate her 8th birthday on Friday, March 24th. We have never had a chicken live this long. Her name is Blueberry. She's always been a family favorite. We want to celebrate her birthday, by throwing the chickens a big party. How do you throw a big...

For a treat, I provide my baby chicks boiled eggs, very finely crushed up. Of course, I do NOT give them the egg shells. They are way too young for crushed egg shells. But you can give baby chicks very finely crushed up boiled eggs (or very finely cut up scrambled eggs) from day 1...

I got some buff ameraucanas from John Blehm in Michigan last year. Every one of them has gone broody at least twice, and two of them have gone broody three times since they were born about 17 months ago. One of the little ladies is hatching babies as I write this. I've found one of the...

With all the excessive heat lately, we've been feeding our chickens lots and lots of watermelon. (I trade eggs for melon from a local grower). My chickens have eaten so many melons lately that I'm waiting for the day when they lay a baby watermelon instead of an egg. But so far, they are...