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Here is our coop for our established flock of 4 they love it however its fall/winter now and my biggest issue is the rain and ice...yes its been raining ice now for 2 days is blowing into the small opening and flooding their floor which is now a solid sheet of ice...:( i need any and all help on...

Hello, I have an established flock of 3 hens and 1 rooster. This summer we incubated eggs and now have 3 chicks that are 5 months old. All day long while they are free ranging they are always seperate...I feed them mainly out of a feeder...the older ones attack during feeding, attack in the coop...

I have a chick that hatched on monday...everything went really good, chick appears to be healthy with no defects that can be seen by the eye. However the chick is just not active like the other ones it sits around most the time with its eyes closed, is off balance, I catch it walking backwards...

I hatched 6 chicks!!! 2 of which are actually mine to keep. I did a little bit of researching on feather sexing and I do notice a difference in wing pattern on my 2 chicks...is this enough to determine that I have 1 roo and 1 hen???

I am new to incubating chicken eggs...more times than none everything goes wonderful. I pick good healthy eggs, they all are usually fertile, they grow wonderful veins everything is perfect...and then hatching day comes. The incubator has wonderful heat and humidity the chick starts to break...

I recently got a new chicken coop I let my chickens free range while leaving the coop door open so they can lay their eggs. This last week I noticed a decrease in eggs one day I had none at all...pretty sure (99%) that my young dog (since she can get to them with this new coop) is eating the...

My girls got a new coop today, haven't decided to paint it or not. I do have some fun flower basket and sign ideas though!!

So I'm new to this and my first incubation was a total failure!! I cracked all the eggs open today and chocks developed but every single one of them had their insides on the outside...big yellow sacks. Is it me or the chickens? Incubator set at 100 to 101 humidity is awesome everything is good...

Ok... so my sister was heading out of town when she realized that her chickens were starting to hatch...well at least 2 of them were. So she had me rush over grab the incubator and bring it to my house. Her incubator looks like a Styrofoam cooler and has a heating coil at the top and a place to...

Love my pretty boy is a joy to have!

I just went outside and found a nest in a small trash trailer where my hen has laid 4 eggs...I would imagine she laid them this last week and temperatures have been up to 60s during the day and 30's at night. Are these eggs still safe to eat???

I have an 8 month old rir hen and for the last 2 months she has had poofy eyes and runny nose...meds are not helping :( no one else has gotten sick and she is otherwise happy and healthy...help please

Hello, so I need some questions answered please. My sister is getting these gigantic eggs almost every other day and they are double yolk every time. She has chickens and ducks so she was originally thinking they were duck eggs but the yolk color just isn't proving to be duck according to...

I live in hutchinson, kansas and I can't find anywhere it says no roosters but pretty sure that is the law...any help?

I have asked this question once twice three times before ;) but they are forever changing. Thesee are my 2 loves as of 1 hour ago... in the morning about 6:30am the last 2 days I hear a howling sound coming from the coop. It has been 14* here don't know if this is an effect or if it's crowing...

I understand it may be to early to gender still but was just curious if there was any guesses...knowledgeable ones please ;) Thank you!

My chickens have a huge yard to free range but this is what they call home at night. I'm not done with it I have some pretty painting to do on it still :)

Oh you guys I'm so nervous and freaking out :/ this is the first night my 2 babies are outside...I miss them being inside and hearing their non stop chirping :( ugh I'm not going to sleep good tonight!

I have never before had chickens so don't know if this is common and I'm just being paranoid or if this is an issue...my chicks are 2 weeks old??? I believe one to be older so with that bring said my little one (2 weeks) has what I would call a somewhat bubble on her chest that tends to slightly...