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I'm down to two hens. These two hens, in the past year, have killed a couple other hens. Its been just the two for a while. I got two more full grown hens to go with them, put them in the hen house last night, let them out this morning, ate breakfast, came back out and one of the new ones had...

So, long story short, I have a breeder flock and a wonderful, beautiful, typee Dominique rooster. He just died Coincidentally, at the same time and hen went broody and started sitting on some of his last eggs. Then I messed up. I left her in the hutch but I left the hutch in the sun and it got...

I'm about to go to my first show and I have entered a cockerel and pullet but neither have been vaccinated. Should I not bring them? It would be devastating if they got Merick's disease. I will quarantine them afterwards, of course but I don't want to lose them. If you know anything about going...

So, Long, confusing story short, I accidentally locked my girls in their coop, and over the course of the next couple of days I noticed that every time I went out there, two hens were always clamped down on a nest. So, it took a day or two to realize that I had two broodies and by this time I...

So, I closed the door to the hen house one night this week which I don't always do and FORGOT TO OPEN IT the next morning... came out the morning after that and realized they were still in there (poor girls!) . Well, they all pile out, then I gather the eggs and feel that they are warm so a...

So I was cleaning the coop yesterday, had to go somewhere in a hurry and left the door to the HENHOUSE wide open making a one-stop-shopping drive-up window. My poor girls!!! I came out this morning to throw out some scratch grains and they were in the yard and I was like what the ???? and...

At what age is it alright to start giving them chicken grit instead of chick grit? Mine are about 5 weeks old but when I get home I let them spend their afternoons in the grass in the coop and I'm sure they pick stuff up there besides their crumbles and I can't find chick grit anywhere. I may...

I placed my nest boxes in the top of my hen house it seems that everybody thinks that a bad idea. What should I do? Is it really going to be a problem? I have a chicken tractor and the box is probably 20 inches off the ground and goes to the ceiling.

So I just got my chicks this weekend and they are doing great! I got them from the president of the Dominique Club of America and he has a very nice flock of birds (not to mention a really nice flock of Buckeyes). Notice how two (Ranger and Bandit) are a week older than the other four (sunshine...