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We've had our chickens just over a year so I'm not well versed in issues that pop up because we haven't had many to deal with. I just went out to collect eggs. Put them in the bucket and when I got them into the kitchen I noticed mites crawling all over them. So gross!! I'm in Canada so I don't...

Right now I have a hardware store bucket with vertical poultry nipples on the bottom and a bucket deicer in the bottom of the bucket. Its keeping the water from freezing, but my birds are soaking themselves! My Silkie looked like a drown rat this afternoon. So, I need something that is going to...

Are dust baths absolutely necessary in the winter? I ask because I've just had to block my chickens from getting into the dust baths because the dust coming off of them after a bath is horrendous! There is dust on EVERYTHING in the run and they are wheezing. It's definitely the wood ash I added...

I have 9 hens/pullets that have only just started giving me eggs. Yay! ;) I know for sure that my only bantam (Silkie) is laying. And I know one of the two Easter eggers I have is laying because I'm getting blue eggs and none of my others could be laying blue. But I'm puzzled at some of these...

I got my very first flock of chickens at the beginning of July. I was sold 6 "pullets" 3 australorps and 3 orpingtons...but all 3 of my australorps turned out to be roos. Sooo, I took them to a poultry swap. Long story short, I came home with 3 younger birds (EE, Australorp, &...

Here is a picture of my coop and run (of sorts) at the moment. The run will be 12' wide, 16' long and I'm hoping 6'-8' high (6' at the back and about 8' at the front). The tallest part of the coop roof is 6' as it stands right now. I am planning on building the run roof as a slanted roof...

This may be a dumb question, but how can ventilation be draft free? What does that look like? I know ventilation is super important...but I don't know how I'm going to create that in my small coop. If I added some pictures of what my coop is looking like right now, would someone give me some...

I live in Ontario and it gets COLD here. I need a low maintenance water system that won't freeze up on me. I'm still in the research phase of chickens...next weekend I hope to start building my coop and run. Before I do, I need to figure out what type of water system I'm going to make/use so it...

Hi all :) We are brand new to chickens but have decided we are going to get 6 hens and turn our old doghouse into a hen house! We built our two spoiled rotten dogs a huge dog house a few years ago and they have NEVER been inside it. They do like laying on top of it though. We took off the front...