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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parietaria_judaica Sorry, the comma got included in the link After talking to him again, I think he is more concerned about the seeds from the pellitory getting spread further than hurting the chickens. I would guess the chickens would do a pretty good job of...

So our yard is TOTALLY overrun with spreading pellitory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parietaria_judaica, which the chickens absolutely love eating. My husband has become recently paranoid about the allergenic qualities of the pellitory, so wants to entirely eradicate it from our yard (which is...

Just an update, in case anyone has a similar situation in the future. 2 days after my post, the Big Chicken did in fact lay her first egg. Things have been pretty calm and pleasant since then. There obviously is some normal chicken aggression, but nothing like before. They will actually all...

Oh, and for the better part of the last month or 2 we have had the barred rock isolated from the others entirely during the day (I would put her in the coop after the others had roosted for the night, and take her out first thing in the morning before anyone had gotten down off the roost - none...

I may be able to continue the run under the coop and off to the other side for another 3x4.5 of low space under the coop, and probably 3x5 of full size run on the other side of the coop. I don't think I'll be able to expand the coop at all, though, but I think they like being outside better...

I know chickens are aggressive and have to set up the pecking order, but I thought drawing blood was sort of crossing a line. So drawing blood is normal and expected behavior? So are the 10/11 week olds big enough to fend for themselves, blood or no, and we should just leave them be?

The three little ones are all good friends, they sleep huddled together on one side of the roost, and the big chicken sleeps by herself on the other side. We'll see how things change as they all get older. The space inside the coop is just under 3.5' per chicken, and outside is just under 9'...

So I posted in the "Raising baby chicks" section about difficulties with integrating 3 ten week olds with a 5 month old Barred Rock (see below). I tried leaving them together again today, and the big chicken is still going after them but not as aggressively as before (no blood). And I have...

I guess some birds are just mean... Do you think the BR will always go after the others, even after they are the same size as her? We will probably keep moving her back and forth until they are all full grown, and then try separating her for a few days and see if she gets knocked down the...

We have been trying to integrate our three 10 week olds (Buff Orpington, Easter Egger, Rhode Island Red), and one 5 month old (Barred Rock). (We have a 3x4.5 coop and connected 3.5x10 run (they do not free range) When the little ones were 4 weeks old, we put a divider in the run and I would...

First, more questions: How high should the roost poles be? How much head room do they need? I am thinking of placing the entrance to the nest box 3" or 4" up, how high above that should the roost poles be? And I was also thinking of putting the door into the run in the floor towards the back...

We are in the process of building our coop, and I wanted to run some dimensions by the group to see if it sounds reasonable. We have 4 one week old pullets (rhode island red, barred rock, buff orpington, mutt americana), and a relatively small backyard in a city setting. 4.5'x3' base for the...