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I have one sex-link that has begun flying over our 4' fence. We clipped the primary flight feathers on one wing. Thought we were good. Hours later, she is over the fence again. Clipped the secondary feathers on the same one wing. Thought we had it for sure this time. Nope, she is over the...

So sorry for your Izzy...I lost my last EE, Honey, last week, killed by a raccoon. It breaks my heart every time I lose one.

I just brought home two "golden Comet" hens who are on my kitchen porch, waiting to integrate into my "flock" of one Orpington and one Phoenix. They can all see each other through the screen. Everything I read about these Comets was positive until today, when I read in a thread here that red...

I could make a run, I just don't want to keep them that way. And the ones I have, have never known anything but free ranging and I think they would be highly annoyed at being penned in. As it is, Honey flies over the fence whenever she feels like it, to range further out. We have lost three...

My two girls were a year old at Easter. I did also want to know if a single chicken would be very unhappy. Usually animals that live in groups don't do well solo but I wasn't sure about chickens.

Predation has reduced my original flock of 5 down to two laying hens. My coop is good for 4 hens. They free range in a limited area during the day and coop is for sleeping only. I am ok with two chickens, we get just enough eggs. And I know what to do, from reading here, to add to my flock of...

Mine go bananas over...bananas! And mealworms, of course.

It was all elastic. Now I will have to look up how to check her crop! No clue...

Ok, I will relax about it, then. Edgy today because we are now down to two chickens after something got one of the Orpingtons yesterday. Right out of the open chicken yard in broad daylight. Sigh...

One of those generic black elastic hair ties. Good Lord, they eat some strange things! Will she be ok?

Wow, this was a surprise after all this time. Sadly, Cuda disappeared without a trace a while after this thread ended. She turned out to have genetic problems and never matured, so that first egg never came. And then she was gone. A hawk, we presume.

Well, I can't do that myself, but I could have that done. And yes, I think that might be just the thing. So the part that is A-frame now, would become a gable roof. I like that! Now, to rustle up a carpenter, because I would need to get this done in such a way that the coop would only be out of...

I would appreciate some advice on what to do about my existing coop, a prefabricated A-frame that was marketed as a chicken tractor for 6 to 9 chickens, which I now know it is too small for. Photos are at the end of this post. The coop is about 5’ tall, and measures, at the bottom, 66” long...

I may decide to get two or three new chicks to eventually add to my existing flock. I want to keep them on my screened kitchen porch, where my three laying hens live just outside. The chicks will go from Rubbermaid bin to dog crate as they mature, and I would have them out to explore on the...

i suppose I could try that. The neighbor with the free range chickens I was talking about also has a cleared property, while ours is very wooded, and she has an outside-only dog on duty 24/7, and their house is raised off the ground so that their chickens spend much of their time under the...

She was.... That penned in area is large, I think about 100' square, so bird netting would be hard. To do anything other than free range would mean a new coop and run, but I have considered it. However, I do not think my present flock would tolerate confinement, as they have never known it...

That is good advice and I didn't think about the consequences of losing one chick, probably because last year I wanted to get three chicks, but my husband said I better get a couple extra in case they didn't all make it. Of course, they all did. I could enlarge my coop...but I should take your...

I realize this is not a new question, but everyone's situation is different. I started my chicken experience with 5 chicks last April. They grew into four fine laying hens and one that had a genetic problem and never matured. This last one vanished without a trace about three months ago. My...

Thank you for writing, bawk bawk bawk. I have come to realize that these things can happen very fast, and that it really doesn't matter what it was because, short of keeping the chickens locked up all the time, there is little to be done about it. My neighbors have had ten chickens for a whole...

Are you sure that egg didn't get to your bed via a different route? My Havanese dog sometimes takes eggs, and whatever she takes, egg or anything else, she brings to the bed.