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I have 6 laying hens that need a new home. It breaks my heart, but it is the best for them. Looking for someone who wants them as laying hens. They were hatched end of June/ beginning of July 2012 so they are just at 2 years old. They are: 3 Black Jersey Giants 2 Buff Orpingtons 1 Ameraucana...

My husband just came in from checking on the chickens and said that one of our Buff Orpingtons is not roosting (it's almost 7pm and has been dark for a while now) and is drinking water like mad. I have a cooler that feeds down into PVC pipes with chicken nipples in it for their water. She's...

I've done a lot of reading about coop sizes, but I still don't have my specific question answered. I've seen needed coop size ranging from 2 - 4 sq ft per bird. Is that size coop AND run or just coop? Can I have a smaller coop if I have a large run (like possibly my whole backyard)? I have...

Saw this bird yesterday. BEAUTIFUL! And BIG! Currently, we can't have roosters so that's the only reason my husband didn't load him in the car. But he wants to know what this roo is. My guess is a Jersey Giant. My girls aren't full grown yet, but they're starting to get that green shimmer on...

So my poor little Tomato has a crooked beak. She's the smallest of my 9 birds. The top is also slightly askew from the bottom. I'm wondering if it's a birth defect or if something happened (the other's pecking at her) as she's been growing. Will this affect her in anyway? My poor girl...

Not sure if this should be in this forum or "Managing your Flock." I got 3 GBJ (The Monsters) at the beginning of the month. A week later 3 BO's and 3 EE's (The Babies). We didn't put them together b/c they were 2 weeks apart in age AND SO much bigger than the babies. We would introduce them...

We have 3 week old GBJ's - I call them the Monsters. Today I gave them a bigger box to run around in because there didn't seem to be enough space for them in the first box. I switched the bulbs from white lights to blacklights to put them to bed - them and the Babies (1 week old EE's and...

I picked up a thermometer so I would know how hot it was in the brooder. The chicks took to it right away. Helpful, isn't it!

I know that where we are living, we will not always be here, and we probably have at least one more move before we find our forever home. SO with that in mind, I'm wondering about a chicken coop that can be easily disassembled to move somewhere else. We are looking to have 4-6 hens total...

So we just picked up 3 Giant Black Jerseys on Friday. They were about a week old then. We weren't planning on that breed but the feed store got them in, we researched them and got excited for that bird! Anyway, we were hoping to pick up either Marans or Orpingtons as well. If the feed store...

Being so new to this, I have read a lot on what a coop needs. Now how to incorporate that into an already existing space. We are renting, so we can't make any permanent alterations, and it's only temporary. We hope to move within 6 months (no more than a year) and at that time I'll probably buy...

I've been lurking on this site for a little while. My husband and I decided two or three months ago that we might want chickens so we've been reading here and there. Today we picked up 3 - 1 week old Giant Black Jerseys! (It's kind of fitting since my husband lived in New Jersey for two years...