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If this is the wrong area, please let me know where I should post this. I have an 8-week old Wyandotte that we got with a batch of other chicks the same age. At 5 weeks she was smaller than the others and missing most of the feathers on her rear. The seller said she had had pasty butt and had...

I have a question about the vent on our 6-week old Wyandotte we got a few days ago. She is the smallest in the group, and I think she was picked on by the larger chicks - she is missing most of her fluffy bum feathers and the stiffer upright tail feathers. She also had a messy bum. When I was...

We have three RIR gals that started laying about 3 weeks ago and have been laying regularly ever since. Their eggs are getting a bit larger each week, and now we're suddenly finding one speckled egg each morning. The shell is the same lovely rosy tan, but the speckles are a darker brown. Is...

I've searched on the ventilation threads, and haven't seen this question answered. All of the ventilation pictures with flaps, etc., I've found are for non-insulated coops in warmer climates. How do you build ventilation flaps into insulated walls? I hope I can explain myself properly: we...

We are pretty close to starting to frame our coop (if it would ever stop snowing), but still have one question I have not found an answer to about roost placement: how far out from the wall do you place the roosts? And if you have two roosts parallel to each other, how far apart do you place...

I apologize if this has been covered already. I've searched the forums and can't find an answer to my question. I know that winter slows down egg production in chickens - they need the 14 hours of daylight to produce well, etc. Does the winter darkness also delay the onset of laying? We...

We currently have six chickens, but will eventually have up to 12. Where I live (Utah), we get pretty severe winter winds and temps drop down to below zero occasionally. We are planning on building a coop that is 6 x 12. Is that too large for 12 birds? I'm concerned about building it too...