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We are on the hunt for a small breed of dog that’s unlikely to attack or chase chickens. Do any of you have any suggestions?

Show us your Olive Eggers and tell us what breeds were combined to create your hen or rooster, as well as whether you’re getting olive colored eggs and in what quantity.

My Red Star and Black Star pullets came from Cackle Hatchery and Cackle’s website says that their Red Stars are created using a Rhode Island Red rooter and a Delaware hen while their Black Stars are created using a Rhode Island Red rooster and a Barred Rock hen. How were your Red Stars and Black...

I have a young flock of backyard chickens, including one large Cochin, one Olive Egger (Black Copper Marans x Ameracauna), one Ameracauna and one Silkie. They are all between 6-10 months old and not one of them has laid a single egg yet. I have a good coop with four nesting boxes. They have full...

This is my Cochin pullet, Coco. I can’t find photos of any Cochin colored like she is. The breeder told me that one of her parents - can’t remember which - was a partridge but I can’t recall what color she said that Coco’s other parent is. So what color would you call this?

I have a small backyard flock of pullets. I wanted a mixed flock and that’s what I have: one Silkie, one Ameracauna, one Olive Egger and one large Cochin. I have space to add one final pullet to my flock and I’ve narrowed my selection down to two breeds: Brahma and RIR. I’d like some input from...

What breeds would you choose if you could only have 6 hens, and why? I would have: A Silkie A large Cochin An Olive Egger An Ameracauna or Araucana A Wellsummer A Rhode Island Red (I have 4 of those breeds and will likely add the Wellsummer and RIR when the opportunity arises.)

Any of them? Thanks!

I enjoy touring other BYC members’ coops and runs so thought I’d share mine. I live in East TN, in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains. I currently have four pullets: a giant Cochin, a white Silkie, an Olive Egger (BC Marans x Ameracauna) and an Ameracauna. My coop (tractor)was built by...

I have 4 chickens: a Silkie, a big Cochin, an Olive Egger and an Ameracauna. None are laying yet (they’re all between 6-10 months old) but I’m not really in it so much for the eggs but because I enjoy the chickens. I keep being tempted to add more chickens to my backyard flock but really, 4 is a...

I have a 10 month old standard (not bantam) Cochin pullet who has yet to produce her first egg. Has your experience with Cochins been that they start egg laying much later than other breeds? Once they start, how many eggs a week do you get from your Cochins and what color are their eggs? Thanks!

Hi. I have a 6 or 7 month old Silkie who appears to have gone broody. I also have 3 chicks - a white Leghorn, a Rhode Island Red and an Easter Egger - all 8 or 9 days old. Currently I have the chicks in a brooder with a heat lamp inside our house but I’m wondering whether it’s possible that I...

Hi. I have a 6 or 7 month old Silkie who appears to have gone broody. I also have 3 chicks - a white Leghorn, a Rhode Island Red and an Easter Egger - all 8 or 9 days old. Currently I have the chicks in a brooder with a heat lamp inside our house but I’m wondering whether it’s possible that I...

This is my 6 month old OE pullet, Olive. She’s 1/2 purebred black copper Marans and 1/2 purebred Ameracauna.

This is my black Ameracauna pullet, Agnes. She’s about six months old. Isn’t she pretty?

We have a large pond and another smaller one on our property. Is there any safe way for us to introduce ducks to our ponds without them all being eaten by predators? Would we need to keep baby ducks in a brooder with warmth until a certain age? If so, at what point would we introduce them to the...

Hi. I have 3 chicks, each one week old and living together in a homemade brooder inside our house. Currently I’m only feeding them chick starter feed. However, I’m wondering when it might be appropriate to offer them treats like mealworms or a bit of apple. Thoughts on this?

I am raising three baby chicks in a brooder in our house. They’re one week old and they’re a white Leghorn, an Easter Egger and a Rhode Island Red. My problem is that whenever I try to hold or even touch them they go into a frenzy of trying to get away. My older pullets - 7 months - are also...

So I just cleaned my coop for the first time after having added a thin layer of sweet PDZ. I have a tempered hardwood floor that slides out for cleaning. And oh my gosh did it come cleaner! I use a hoe to scrape away the droppings and the sweet PDZ made them come off easily and dry. I’ll...

I currently have 5, 5 day old chicks brooding in what I thought was a sufficiently deep and long enough plastic tote. I have pine shavings on the floor and a heat lamp clamped to the side. Well today, my light Brahma, who is quite a bit bigger than the rest, flew out of the brooder. I can’t put...