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rhoda_bruce: It's been very hot here this summer, too. We've just had a cool spell to break the high 90's/low 100's we had for most of August. The heat definitely impacted their egg production but I didn't think about it possibly being the cause for the bald spots. I forgot about the dog...

I have about three laying hens that have horrible bare spots on their backs. I know that, for the first one at least, it was a spot created by one of our roosters being overly friendly. Well, those roosters are long gone and now I have at least two other hens who have developed the same bald...

Well, I have a Rhode Island Red rooster who seems to have gotten frostbite on his tall comb. The tips are black so I'm assuming that is what happened. Do I have to do anything about it? Will leaving it alone cause problems? I can't imagine clipping it off as this rooster is the meanest thing...

We have gotten ourselves into a situation where we will be out of town from Saturday morning through Sunday night and we don't have anyone to look after our chickens. What would you do if you had to leave your chickens (36 of them) for 36 hours and they weren't going to be checked on during...

I just posted another question a few minutes ago. I've got a lot of questions.... So, my hens just started laying and I'm working on improving their nesting boxes so that they can have a cleaner and easier to access place to lay their eggs. Today, when snooping around my chicken area, I found...

The nesting boxes that we put into our coop were quickly adopted as sleeping quarters for many of our chickens. Now, just in the last week, my chickens have begun to lay eggs. Fortunately, they are not laying them in the nasty "nesting boxes", which are full of poop but they are laying them on...

well, we have an electric fence up, it's just not hot yet b/c I ordered the wrong kind of charger. The fence is working to keep our chickens in (for the most part--some are still able to squeeze through the squares somehow!). Well, the solar charger is ordered and on its way but in the...

If you keep hens and roosters together (in the right proportions), once the hens start laying eggs, how do you know whether they are fertilized or not. Does it even matter if you collect them everyday? Is eating fertilized eggs bad? I know I should know this stuff and I should probably just...

I'm new to all of this so bear with me. I was feeling really good about myself, thinking that all of my caretaking practices was keeping our coop and run amazingly free from odor and annoying pests. Then this week hit with VERY hot temperatures and suddenly there are flies everywhere! Does the...

I was curious as to what kind of brushes you all use to scrub your feeders/waterers? I got this thinish brush that you can use to scrub your grout with, thinking that it would be good for the tight areas but the bristles are too rigid and it takes forever to get the bigger areas really clean...

Do they have access to grit? That might help.

Yes, they will, but it probably will take a couple of days for them to start going in voluntarily. Our chicks have been free ranging since they were about 5 1/2 weeks old and we had to hand put them in for the first few nights (that was fun--all 50 of them!). I would turn the light on about...

There are other video's shot undercover on utube that show the horrid conditions that most commercial chicken/egg production encompasses. It's the stuff of nightmares. What amazes me is that those poor chickens live even the brief time they do. Truly remarkable animals. I watched some of...

I'm curious about this too. How can you separate when you aren't sure who all is definitely a rooster? We have some "fighting" but its not really rough...yet. If I don't have meat breeds that get big quickly, but still plan on eating some of them, like sparkles2307 does, do I absolutely have...

I bet the majority of Americans have no idea where their eggs or chicken comes from. If half of them found out, I wonder how many would continue to use both in the same manner. That's EXACTLY what I couldn't stop thinking about. Folks are simply clueless, rather by choice or just plain...

My husband and I just watched a fascinating documentary on PBS the other night titled The Natural History of the Chicken. It was very interesting, in so many ways, and it truly went from the ridiculous to the sublime. They actually have it on YouTube if you're interested. There were parts...

So does a 6 week old rooster who has always been friendly and curious and a little jealous of attention... stay that way? We love "George" (named after the curious little monkey, of course) and have from the very beginning. Although we will be butchering the majority of our roosters in about a...

Interesting... we have a couple of, what I believe, are Golden Laced Wyandottes. I noticed just the other day that one of them seems to have new grayish tipped feathers coming around the bottom of its body, which are very different than its "golden" tips. It is 6 weeks old as of yesterday...

We've had a couple of days of severe weather around here and since my chicks are ranging freely during the day, they have inevitably been caught in the rain. My question is this, if they have access to their coop via their little chicken door but they are outside, huddling under their coop with...

My chicks will be 6 weeks old tomorrow. Yeah, you're right. Not nearly Buff enough. I was wondering if it was a cross too but how often does that happen when they come from a hatchery?