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I have come to the difficult decision that I must let my girls and their home go. I have 6 hens, all about 8 mo. old. There are 2 Golden Sex-Link, 1 Rhode Island Red, 1 Brown Leghorn, and 2 Buttercups. 5 were laying until about a month ago when several started molting; now 2 have started back so...

My 6 mo old "boss hen" Barred Rock, Sally, was face down and unmoving when I went to the coop this morning. She had shwon no sign of being sick the days before, and there was no evidence of a predator that I could see. Does this happen often, and what could be some of the possible causes?

A couple of my hens have just started laying eggs (as of Sunday! Whoo hoo!) & today my husband went to check on them around noon and found a 5ft black snake in the coop eating the sole egg. I saw an older post on this website about using deer netting to keep snakes out but I couldn't get a clear...

Yesterday I went to check on my hens around 4pm and lo and behold there were two beautiful, perfect, pink/tan eggs inside the coop! They weren't in the nest box; they had simply made themselves a nice depression in the wood shavings. I'm not sure which hens laid--three of them I know for sure...

My lot of 10 chicks ended up containing several roosters, and the last one I have is this gorgeous 4 mo old RIR gentleman. He hasn't started crowing yet (late bloomer?); he's a sweet tempered guy, not aggressive. I'll post a photo of him later, I'm posting this while at work. I live in Anderson...

I have a beautiful, sweet tempered RIR rooster that is 4 months old and needs a new home. He was one of 10 chicks I got, and since I only need laying hens, we need to find this guy new digs. I live in Anderson, SC. I will post a photo of him later (posting this at work). DIdn't name him but I...

I realize this is not a coop construction post, but I really wasn't sure where else to post it so-- sor-ree! I've got 9 (at the moment) chickens, 12 weeks old, in an approx. 4W x 6L coop. I've been using the deep litter method inside, wood shavings. I keep it about 4 inches deep, and every week...

My ten chicks are now almost 10 weeks old; about two weeks ago the one and only Black Sex Link started its pitiful attempts at crowing (funny!) and I was sure that any other roos would soon follow suit.....not! Not a coughing sound out of a one of them! My question is, could the one roo be...

Ok, if you don't know that movie the subject line won't make a lot of sense-- my 6 week old chicks haven't let me know yet if they're hens or roos. I think they know what revealing their sex means for them! I was depending on the farmer I bought them from being able to tell me when he delivered...

Our chicks are nearly 3 weeks old, and I've been trying to figure out how they would prefer to be held. Is there a right/wrong way?

Our chicks are a little over 2 wks old now (and doing great! wow, do they grow fast! ) and we are looking to get our coop hopefully weekend after this coming one. We are planning on using the deep litter method for the floor of the coop, but I have a question about the use of DE-- I keep seeing...

We have almost-2-week old chicks, and everything I have learned about caring for them has been obtained on this website ( ). Is there any kind of preventive maintenance that needs to be done, from this age on?

My chicks are only a week and a half old, but I am already wondering which feed will be best for them when they get into the growth and layer feed stages. I guess I should be concerned with what's in the chick starter they're eating now, but that's another can of worms (not literally! ) I've...

I know some of you get this free from friends or maybe make your own, but for those of us without those sources, where is a good cheap source? Free is good!

Maybe (probably) I am doing this wrong, but if I do a search of the forum using the search box in the upper right corner, it will start opening a new window for EACH RESULT of the search. I've tried 2 searches and each time I end up having to just exit out of BYC because it is opening like 35...

We got chicks! We found an ad in a local paper for chicks and went out to look at them and came home with 10! Our goal is 4 hens, but this guys chicks are straight run (he will buy back any that are roosters) so we figure we hopefully will get our 10 out of this bunch. We got Rhode Island...

My hubby & I are in the beginning stages of becoming owners of a few chickens (4 is the number we have in mind). After looking at a gazillion photos of tractors and coops, I believe we are going to find that a small coop with an attached run is what will work best for us--reasons being we have...

Hey, y'all! South Carolina send its greetings! I am brand spanking new to this (ok, I do know there'll be no spanking---I HOPE!), in fact I don't even have any chickens yet. My hubby and I are just investigating it after learning from a newspaper article that you don't have to have a rooster to...