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Hi all, I'm considering purchasing a readymade roll away nest box, such as bestnestbox or similar. Does anyone who has more experience than I do want to share their wisdom? I live in MA, we do get very cold and have some issues with frozen eggs even with the traditional, inside the coop...

Hi! Any thoughts much appreciated! These birds were bought from McMurrays 3.5 months ago. There were 4 Barred Rock females ordered. One of them is turning out quite a bit smaller than the other three, and has frizzly pointy hackle feathers with a much finer color pattern. Her comb appears...

Help me ID my 4 week old McMurray's exotic spare - she seems a wee bit smaller than all the rest, and her feathering is definitely delayed compared to the Whitings and the Barred Rocks. She has lots of feathers on her legs, less wing feathers than the others and almost no tail feathers at all...

I mostly came here to vent, but if anyone has advice it's very welcome. My chicken life is too complicated right now and I did it to myself. I'm whiney about it because we have up until now had a very nicely largely automated setup with 5 gallon hanging waterer, 25 lb treadle feeder, dusk to...

Hi everyone, longtime lurker first time poster. BYC has been an invaluable resource for this first time chicken owner, and the short version is that I'm totally smitten with my new feathered friends. Things seem to be going very well so far, but I still don't know what breeds or sexes I have...