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My rooster is 1 year old and has always been tame. Virtually overnight he has started attacking me and my husband. I am wondering if it might be because my husband and I did not spend any time around the chickens all winter. It was so cold we would only go out to quickly change food/water or...

I want to make a flock block with lard, but I don't see any recipes that use lard. Not sure why. It seems to me that some animal fat would be good for the chickens in the winter, am I wrong?

I was planning on using Wazine first followed up by Safeguard 10 days later. Between giving the 2 meds and the waiting period I would be throwing out 150 eggs which I don't want to do. I can somewhat understand throwing out eggs after antibiotic treatment, because of antibiotic resistance, but...

This is what I bought I was hoping someone could help me with the dosage for chickens? The directions on the website say give 2.3 ml per 100 lbs referring to goats and cows.... I have no idea. I bought a syringe that will measure down to 0.5 ml. Is it ok to mix it in a gallon waterer? Or do I...

I had been letting my dog drink water from my rain barrel system (not anymore) and she caught Giardia. She has been treated but the chickens were drinking the same water and now all of them have diarrhea. I am suspecting they have it too but I have no idea how to treat them. I still have Corid...

I want to sell hatching eggs locally but I am not sure what is a fair price. I have a pure cream legbar rooster and several of the hens look like they are pure cream legbar but the guy who sold them to me as day old chicks said they would probably be mixed with Easter egger so I cannot make any...

My first coop has 25sqft of floor space (plus roosting space up high) not including the 6 nesting boxes on the side, and the second coop has 15sqft of floor space, also not including the nesting box, and areas to roost as well. There is plenty of run space so I am not worried there. I have 14...

I have a cream legbar/EE mix hen that has become broody. I am sure the eggs are fertilized because I have a cream legbar roo in the enclosure. She started laying at 17 weeks and is only 20 weeks old now. Ever since she started laying she has been hellbent on hatching some eggs even though I...

I sometimes put my chickens out in tractors while I am home during the day, and I was wondering if a cat would dig under the frame to get to them? I don't worry much about other predators since my yard is fenced to keep dogs out and I would never leave them in a tractor at night. Just wondering...

I built my current coop to house 10 chickens. It has 25 sqft of floor space not including nesting boxes, attached to a 100 sqft run. The issue is I ended up with 15 chickens, after estimating 50/50 male/female for straight run chicks I guess I won the lottery and got way more hens than expected...

Today I noticed one of my 11wk old Rhode island reds was not hanging out with the other chickens, lethargic, and choosing to sit in the hot sun while the other chickens were in shade. I checked her over for anything unusual and didn't see anything wrong. She allowed me to pick her up and she sat...

I have 10 hens, a mixed flock of EE's and RIR's ranging from 11 weeks to 14 weeks old. and a cream leg bar rooster that is 15 weeks old and has been raised with the others. He has recently started trying to mate, and the hens are not happy. They don't want to come out of the coop some days...

I have 13 easter eggers from 8-10 weeks old that have been raised together, and 5 rhode island reds that are 6 weeks old - these were raised in the same room with the other chickens but in a separate brooder. The easter eggers have been in the coop for a couple of weeks now, and I am trying...

I am new to all of this. I have seen a lot of people use Premier1 electric poultry netting, but it was a bit pricey for me. It looked like I would have to spend $100 on the netting, then an additional $200-300 for a battery or solar panel- is that correct? Because of the expense, I was hoping...