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Some of my chickens keep coming in the garage or on the deck, far away from the coop, and singling loudly. I keep looking for eggs in these places and not finding any. Is this normal? Why are they doing this? Why else do hens sing? I'm still getting plenty of eggs in their nesting boxes...

My husband saw it the other day. While he's big on talk, he didn't kill it. I saw it yesterday. He's a pretty big guy-but I've never seen one before him so I'm not sure if he's actually big for a possum. I don't know anything about them. He looked so yucky, slow and stupid, I didn't want to...

The plan was to not get attached to my hens. They're giving me plenty of eggs, there will be no need to eat my girls anytime soon. But I'm already worried about when the time comes. I won't be letting them go on some farmland far away where a coyote will get them. I won't be feeding them...

I can't decide if I should put in a heat lamp for these few days. 2 of my chickens have some frostbitten tips on their combs. Those are the chickens with the extra long, floppy combs though, so the other chickens are fine. But I'm worried about this cold getting into their coop. I'm pretty...

An ice storm ruined the netting we had covering our run. I had been planning on taking it down anyway-I knew winter would destroy it and it wasn't really deterring hawks. It's time to think of something new. I don't want to buy wire to use for it, although that seems to be the best choice...

My hens have a really loud egg song that I can hear from pretty far away. The neighbors say they can't hear it. I was thinking about getting a rooster this coming spring. Is the rooster's crow way louder than an egg song? I know they can all be different...but I've never heard a rooster crow...

One of my chickens is missing. It's been several days. There's no sign of her, and I kept thinking she was hiding :( My husband thought the neighbor's dog got her, but after this weekend he now thinks a chicken hawk took her. He saw a giant shadow pass by the window, he looked, and it was a...

There's a kitten that appeared on our property. And our kids fed her. She was a tiny, frail, adorable thing. So I let her stay, hoping she'd help keep mice away and kind of be another protector of our chickens. On researching the topic, I found some cats hunt chickens and some don't. So I...

My husband built me a nice coop, but he wouldn't insulate it then, when it would have been much easier. Now I have 12 chickens comfortably living in the coop, and they're all laying where I want them to (and on floor under where I wanted them to, but whatever...I'm getting clean eggs). Now...

I'm thinking about doing the 5 gallon bucket with the nipples in the bottom...seems easiest for me to do by myself. It's time for me to think about what to do for the winter too...I've done a lot of reading in here and don't really want to try the cookie tin method or the aquarium heater...

We're going camping in a week or 2...and I'm worried about leaving the chickens. Every morning, I take food & water out to them. I get eggs out twice a day. So far, the most I've gotten in a day is 6...but we have 12 laying chickens and in a couple weeks we may be getting 12 eggs a day...

We're going camping in a week or 2...and I'm worried about leaving the chickens. Every morning, I take food & water out to them. I get eggs out twice a day. So far, the most I've gotten in a day is 6...but we have 12 laying chickens and in a couple weeks we may be getting 12 eggs a day...

I got our first egg today! Eek! It's more exciting than I thought! Then I got 2 more.....and all 3 of them have been in the same spot, to the right and below the nesting boxes. I have clean pine shavings and a golf ball in each box. Why do you think they're doing this? The boxes are about...

My chicks are almost done with their big bag of grower feed. Should I buy another or go ahead and buy the layer feed in case they start laying soon? My mother in law said once I switch to layer feed, they'll start laying. If that's true, would it hurt them to start laying this soon? They're...

My chicks are about 16 weeks old. We put in the nesting boxes thinking as soon as they're laying, they'll start laying in there. Well they're not laying yet...but someone is pooping in one of the boxes. I know it's common...but I never thought it would happen to me lol. So should we take out...

We've had a few hot days here recently, our chicks are about 11 weeks old, and they don't seem to like the heat so far. I make sure their water is available and clean, but they just sit in the shade in the run most of the day. I'm wondering if people add a small water bath...or if it'll just...

We're deciding where to put our coop & run. We'd like to put it in an area of the yard that previously had pieces of broken glass. We've cleaned it all up, but there are gazillions of rocks, pebbles, and small pieces of broken concrete and twigs & stuff...is this okay? Will they eat the...

Hello, we're almost done building our coop and need to put it together outside. The problem is my husband and I can't decide on where it should go. The best spot is an area of our yard that the previous homeowners apparently dumped trash at. There are broken shards of glass, batteries, and...

Hello! We have 12 baby chicks and they'll be ready to go to their coop in about 2 weeks. I look forward to learning all about them on here.