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Hi Kris, Congrats on your first flock! It’s like an addition to the family, this chicken keeping thing. Your birds will remain healthy and productive for at least three years, with a little bit of sensible care. Their coop should have a vent, or hole up high, near the roofline, to let excess...

Get the fox! Maybe you could call animal control to set a trap for it. Or get an electronic dog barking alarm, to startle him when he sneaks around. I would put the bird back in with his flock as soon as he is foraging happily again. The longer he is kept away, the harder his re-entry will be...

I see a young cockerel! It’s the red fleshy new wattles, and just the red flesh. My girls had smaller combs, and remained pale until nearly laying age. His tail is starting to develop too, for 8-10 weeks age, looks like a boy.

My pullet was attacked by a dog, which ripped a 2 inch patch of her skin completely off. I made her a chicken apron out of a clean sock, and dropped colloidal silver on the open wound every day. She grew her skin and feathers back in a short period.

Hey Starr78....my sister Pam has chickens and geese in Wasilla. She has hatched some..but her husband is too attached to eat them anymore! The geese love, and follow him in the yard. Is the 78 the year you graduated? That's her graduation year! She does medical paperwork for the hospital there...

Mary's chickie should hatch on saturday, the incubator chicks are due on May day! We saw movement in the leghorn eggs...and veins in the orpingtons a day ago!

Hi! It's been a while since I checked this back yard blog! Living in remote Pilot Point Alaska, with the ONLY chicken coop in town! I have been working at the school here in Pilot Point, and presently have 27 eggs in an incubator..in the principal's office! They are due to hatch on May day! We...

I've raised barred rock, black australorps, and even some meat birds, when my children were small. Now that everyone is on their own... I find myself easily talked into a "chicken project"! My duplex neighbor and myself ordered up 6 pullets from Murray McMurray Hatchery. This is border-line...