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Seems like every time we lose a Chicken, the rest of them get a little bigger.

We have been seeing a Possum wandering around the back yard for a few weeks now while we sit out on the patio in the evening, right around dusk. Never thought much of it, since the coop was always closed up by then. Tonight, we were sitting out there a little earlier and saw the top of...

For about three months, we've been trying to get our Rooster to understand that he's not in charge, but he just didn't get it. He would assert himself and I'd either grab him by the feet and hold him upside down for a few minutes or whack his butt with a stick. He would be ok for a few weeks...

Our coop is shaded most of the day and during that time, the chickens seem to be pretty comfortable. For the past couple weeks though, there is a period during the late afternoon of about two hours when there's not much shade for them at all and they get pretty hot during that time. It seems...

Just finishing up the run extension and I figured I'd take some pics. They went crazy when I put the dirt in there. Like a bunch of kids in a new sandbox. I had to put extra dirt in for what they kicked out. The run was big enough for them before, but they just seemed cramped.

Our chickens seem to like meat more than any other food, any kind of meat. We throw them leftover bones and they go berserk tearing off every scrap of meat that might be left on them. Chicken seems to be their favorite meat. Throw some chicken bones in the run and it turns into a frenzy of wild...

I wanted to find something to keep the chickens from hanging out in the coop all day, so I got an onion bag, filled it with old bread and hung it from the roof of the run, at their head level. It took them a couple days to figure out what it was and get over their fear of it swinging, every time...

Have a few finishing touches to take care of, but for the most part, it's done. Rupert and his ladies, making their first outdoor appearance.

Our coop is almost done so I figured I'd post a pic. We'll probably paint it this weekend and then I'll start on the coop platform and run.

We've been keeping our chicks in a large plastic bin since we got them, a little over a week ago. It was pretty tight in there with their food and water and they getting shavings and poop in their food and water as well. I threw a brooder together from scrap wood today, to keep them in until...

Wife and I were sitting at the dining room table this morning, drinking coffee. She looks out the window and says what the heck is that? It was a Fox, right behind the house. He just walked up the hill and layed down. When he put his head down, we knew something was wrong with him. He had come...

What did people do to get their chickens to lay eggs before they made the modern high protein feeds? Did they just keep a lot more chickens and hope that they got some eggs once in a while?

The wife and I finally got around to buying some chicks today. We were at Tractor Supply and she saw them and had to take some home with her. We took 5 from the pullet brooder and 1 from the straight run. The girl that waited on us wasn't sure if they were leghorns or rocks. From pics I've seen...