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My dear husband and I want to start s small rabbitry with Silver Foxes. We are homeschooling homesteaders and are trying to raise rare heritage breeds on our ranchette. Next spring, we will start with Buckeye chickens which we will raise and breed for breed correctness and also for eggs and...

I went to pick up some advertised EE pullets from a breeder near my home and decided to get a roo to replace the one that went to freezer camp. She showed me several EE roos that were running here and there, and then she asked me if I wanted to see her Americauna Blue Wheaten roosters. She...

Still need to paint a few things, but here it is. Just wanted to mention that there is hardwire cloth behind the chicken wire (my hubby LIKES the look of chicken wire. ) and on the back side of the screen door. We have plastic netting on top of the run, but that should be fine as we will lock...

I still can't figure out how the dog(s) got the girls. Locked everyone in the coop last night after doing a head count. This morning, when I went to let them out at 8:00, two were missing. Found a big pile of feathers in the side yard and pretty much followed the trail to one dead chicken...

We are currently without a rooster because of our roos nasty behavior toward our kids. We have 10 pullets now and are hopefully adding 4 more (successfully ) in a few weeks. That will give us 14 girls. Is one roo enough or should we have a try with 2?

So, my Dear Daughter came running inside yesterday, screaming, "WHAT HAPPENED TO THE CHICKENS, MOMMA! I THINK THEY ARE ALL DEAD!" Crying hysterics ensued, her practically hanging off of my leg as I went to the backdoor and saw this: I told her they were definitely NOT dead, but she...

We have a laying flock of 10 birds. We recently dispatched our Buff Orpington Rooster for bad behavior. I am getting one white and the rest mediumish brown eggs (as you can see in my avatar) I wanted Americanas when I got mine in the spring, but couldn't find them locally. On Craigslist...

We have 10 layers, and 5 are laying consistantly. 5 eggs every day for the past 5 days. Here is the egg-cellent picture my 5 year old son took of our egg bowl. He wants to be a photographer when he grows up!

Well, I MUST do it. I don't want to, but it must be done. I can't find anyone to take him and he is a brute that is terrorizing my children. Now they are scared to even get the eggs from the girls(which they WERE very excited about) First, he is so rotten that he is almost uncatchable. How...

Well, I MUST do it. I don't want to, but it must be done. I can't find anyone to take him and he is a brute that is terrorizing my children. Now they are scared to even get the eggs from the girls(which they WERE very excited about) First, he is so rotten that he is almost uncatchable. How...

I am sure this has already been discussed many times over, but every time I try to use the "search" button, all I get is an error code. Two of my girls just started laying this week. Simultaneously, I discovered two "mites" crawling on me while I was cleaning out the coop. They looked like...

We would love to start raising this heritage breed. Any breeders on here near WV?

My Crazy, Curious, Queen of the FLock White Leghorn Rosie has something wrong with her comb. Here is a picture of her and her friend from yesterday with everything looking fine. This morning, when I went to check on them, I found her looking like this... b_001.jpg[/img] I am new to...

Ok, Rosie has always been an odd little chicken. She is the only petite little leggern among my flock of dual purpose birds. She is Queen Chick and rules the others with an iron beak. haha She laid her first egg yesterday. Actually, she laid two eggs yesterday and another this afternoon. I...

We got our first 4 eggs today!! I know one of them came from my single White Leghorn because she is our only one that lays a white egg. Our nine other girls are all brown egg layers. 2 RIRs, 3 BA, 2 BOs, 1 GLW and 1 SLW. How can I tell who the three who are laying brown eggs are when NONE of...

WOO-HOOO!!!! Finally heard a commotion and a lot of loud squawking today that WASN'T the rooster! It was our WL, Rosie. BWACK BWACK BWACK BAGAWK!!! So, I go over to see what's up, and the Leghorn is going crazy. I let them out to range, and go in to fill up the feeder. There, in the...

Well...unfortunately, Mr. Muffin has decided to start going bad... He is now 17 weeks old and has been quite calm up until about three days ago. Suddenly, he has decided that he needs to chase and try to attack my 4 and 5 yo kids. Like, he runs up behind them when they are not looking and...

Sooo...I was over on backyardherds looking at goat stuff because we are getting some later in the fall. A question was posted about what sorts of medicines you should keep around if you have goats. The list was....ummm....pretty long. haha That got me thinking about my little chicken flock...

Isn't it kinda early for her to be starting to lay? I'm a little concerned, as she still looks pretty thin and petite. If she is starting to lay, how do I switch her to layer feed and NOT switch everybody else? I have loads of chick starter left because once they got big enough to let out...

That's all. Everyone else is nice and clean, even the bottoms of their feet. And then here comes Rosie, my WL, with poo or black dirt or squished berry stains all over her. She seems perfectly content to look like a garbage dump.