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THANKS TO EVERYONE who posted re: winter care of chickens. Mine got through fine, the next problem is the rooster pulling out all their feathers!

Hullo folks, My eggs don't stay in the nest for six days, but am finding almost chicks in them for the first time nowadays. Maybe the broody hen, Ariana, is hiding the eggs under the shavings... I am sad for her as the rooster is her brother and he does not mate with her. The two of them take...

Thank you for your quick replies! Will hike back out and turn off the light--Kinda thot of doing that when all this happened earlier, it does not really add much warmth--75 watt! The rooster crows outside the coop usually--just always facing it. It's like he crows AT the wood, with his beak...

Hokay, I have a great water heater in the smallish coop, lots of hay on the raised wooden floor, lotsa pine shavings on the roosts--but after I added a light, they won't go in at night. The bulb holder had a warning: Made in China and wash your hands after handling as the lead will cause birth...

Thank you all for your replies--they really help. I will: 1) check to see why that one chicken is laying outside 2) put in some pine shavings 3) put in a light bulb 4) go back to just warshing my aigs in soap and water 5) am glad you don't think my girls are 'brain-damaged' from overheating as...

Hullo folks, I had chickens before for ten years, and had seen the scare literature re: diseases, but ignored it. This time, however, a friend with the Public Health Dept told me we were having a Salmonella epidemic among baby chicks. I did not have them vaccinated, but I did feed them special...

My first rooster, Cinnamon Toast, a Gold-laced Wyandotte (sp?) does not crow particularly at dawn, but crows all day whenever someone comes to the house or I step outside. He seems to crow when he wants attention or sees a person. I am a bit concerned as there is a new housing development close...

Altho I've had chickens for eight years. this is an all new batch of seven, well, one turned out to be a gorgeous Gold-laced Wyandotte rooster...sigh...the rest are Americaunas. Have my old water warmer--it is a sealed in unit that will hold the 5 gallon waterer. I was startled when someone...

I appreciated some of the members "other" reasons for raising chickens. I also find them an antidote to sadness--They are like Victorian ladies in petticoats, flying and dashing about. I love their very individual personalities: Annie who flew to the top of my Ponderosa pine--20 feet up--for...