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I made a crustless asparagus, bacon, onion cheddar quiche. Well, I used canned asparagus and I don't really like the taste. Can I feed this quiche to my chickens? Do I just throw them out the quiche in the pie pan or crumble it up? Thoughts? (Silly, I know!)

I'm sure there are a TON of these posts, but...I found my first egg!! My Ancona hens are 21 weeks and today I found my first egg in the coop! Yay! From one these lovely ladies:

We're raising 5 Ancona hens (20 weeks now) in a suburban subdivision of sorts that is surrounded by woods. My husband was out working in the garage ~15 ft. from the free ranging chickens (I let them out for 1-2 hours before sunset). He said a small hawk swooped in on the flock. (We have 10...

We are raising Creme D'Argent rabbits for meat. Our breeding doe had her first litter in early June. We have since butchered three rabbits and kept a doe and a buck. The doe will be our 2nd breeding doe and we'll swap the buck with a friend of mine's buck so we can get an unrelated buck to...

I picked up this hutch on Craigslist for...free! It's 6' x 3' and we're hoping to house 5 Ancona hens. We've screwed on a plywood floor to the bottom and we're currently building a 6' x 8' run off the coop alongside the fence. We're in a subdivision so we don't want the hens wandering into...

Everyone I've mentioned having chickens to constantly tells me how smelly they are. So you tell me, how smelly is your flock? And has anyone heard of getting chicken feathers (I suppose the down) in their lungs? Neighbor says that it happens on a lot of farms, sort of like inhaling...

....cock-a-doodle-doing? I'm looking at getting 12 unsexed white Dorkings and would like to use the males for meat birds. Though I don't want them to get to the noisy point! Any input?

Hello everyone! I'm mostly a lurker as of yet. On the 28th I'm taking a "Chicken 101" class and then DH and I are hoping to get a small flock of White Dorking chicks from a local chicken farmer. Quite excited to be here and learn all I can! Virginia in NH