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I used straw for my brooder chicks for the first time this year. They aren't trying to eat it and it's not slowing them down. You should be changing the bedding every couple of days. This will keep the poop from building up and getting all over them, it also won't have time to get wet and moldy...

One of my hens has a bald spot on her neck. I'm pretty sure it's from pecking. I sprayed the spot with blu-kote tonight, along with her bottom which is also bald and red. Some one was holding her head to the side but once the spray hit her she jerked and put her eye right in the line of fire. It...

Dunreath Farm in Ashland, Va has red dorkings too. That's where I got mine last summer. Very nice, knowledgeable folks. They have several other breeds of chickens too.

HAHA! Little chicken bowties and fezzes! Because bowties are cool! And fezzes are cool!

22lilchickens, I saw an ad on craiglist tonight for 2 silkie hens and a rooster. If you search in the Charlottesville area they are located in Zion X Roads. I don't know if it's a breeder exactly, but maybe worth looking at.

Hello from Madison, VA! I have a well behaved Delaware rooster who hatched in April. He came from a farm in south central VA. I have two roosters and right now they get along great but I'm afraid I'm living on borrowed time. Everything I read says odds are one day there will be a melt down. I...

Thanks, I'll give that a try.

Susan83, I try really hard not to employee violence as well when it comes to my roosters. I do believe that a good shove with a foot is fine (I'm not going to risk putting my fingers in pecking range). Nine times out of ten they move out of the way before you make contact anyway but I think it...

My boy here has now started having his way with some of the girls around the hen house and my other rooster isn't happy about it. No fighting, but he will run across the yard when he sees the Delaware on a hen and knock him off. Doesn't anyone want to give this pretty boy a home?

Most people discourage sleeping in the nest boxes so poop doesn't get on your eggs. Chickens do most of their pooping at night when they sleep. If they sleep in the box then come along during the day and lay eggs your eggs will probably get dirty.

My girls lay in the afternoon and so far they Have always managed to make it back to the coop to lay. I let them out around 1p.m. some days (it's later other days) and I get eggs around 3 or 4 p.m. I haven't found a secret stash in the yard yet. In the beginning I kept them in the run so they...

Wouldn't you know it, after saying I've never heard him crowing, I got out of my car today and heard two simultaneous crows coming from the chicken run. That was the first time I'd heard that. So, apparently he does know how to crow....

I live in central VA. Coming this way any time soon? Lol

I have a well behaved Delaware who hatched in April. He came from a farm in south central VA. I have two roosters and right now they get along great but I'm afraid I'm living on borrowed time. Everything I read says odds are one day there will be a melt down. I only have 8 hen too. I've never...

Mine started out laying on the poop board in the coop. They were not interested in the nest boxes at all. I tried a couple different materials in the boxes. I don't know if they liked the dried grass best or if they finally just decided they like the cozy box better than the board but eventually...

My chickens like to hang out under an old truck my husband refuses to get rid of. I was leaning against the truck watching them scratch at the ground. Gus, my rooster, found a small worm and started his dance and little cooing noise. He picked up the worm and dropped it. Two hens came running...

I put some rubber mat down in the bottom then added a little grass clippings from the yard on top. I feel the mat gives some padding and insulation since its one of those nest boxes that hangs out from the coop. There is just enough clippings to make it look nesty. They really wouldn't help much...

I brought some pork chop bones and scraps down to the girls one evening. One snatched the whole bone right out of my hand. It was the funniest thing watching her run frantically around the yard with that bone in her beak trying to keep it away from the other chickens.

I've had him since he was a day or two old. He is 6 months old now.

Here he is. He is supposed to be a Dominique but I think there is a RIR in the wood pile.