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Our peep is now 5 1/2 months old, and we're still not sure she's. She doesn't crow and hasn't laid any eggs. She acts like a girl, but stands like a boy. Her tail looks like a rooster, but her head looks like a hen. Mommy is an Easter Egger. Daddy is Buff Orpington. The last time I posted...

This 4 to 4 1/2 month old peep is half Easter Egger and half Buff Orpington. I fear it is a he, but I want it to be a she. Can somebody help based on these pics?

Yesterday my husband & I discovered Sugar Loaf Mountain near Hearne, Texas. In fact, we climbed it as part of our Texas Master Naturalist training. We had no idea there was anything close to a mountain anywhere near College Station. Those of you in the Hill Country or Davis Mountains would...

This morning about a half dozen of our girls were waiting patiently at our back door for some sort of handout. I was getting ready to compost some over-ripe grapes, so I just tossed the fruit out on the lawn. After a frantic scramble, each of them marched away proudly with a green grape in her...

On a recent visit from Chicago our 6-year-old grandson Goran was fascinated with the chickens and obsessed by the possibility that the eggs could hatch into chicks. He went out to the henhouse several times a day and would lift up a setting hen to check for eggs. If there were no setting hens...

We just got back home after a two-week vacation, and were relieved to find that all eleven of our free-range girls are doing fine. And they haven't forgotten us. They immediately come charging over whenever one of us goes into the back yard. Of course, they're hoping for handouts, but they're...

This handsome boy is Fancy Nancy. He lives next door and has seduced all our girls to his boudoir, where they all sleep piled up on top of an old coop exposed to the elements and night critters. Last fall he barely survived a run-in with a hawk, and is missing one eye as a result. But he's...

Grandkids are coming to visit from Austin today. Here's little Lizzy sharing the remainder of her peanut butter sandwich.

After lurking on this site for many months, I finally joined. Our neighbors started raising free-range chickens nearly 5 years ago. After several years of encouraging their visits our yard, we got some of our own. Now we share chickens and eggs, and we've kind of lost track of which ones are...