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I have a problem that has me stumped and I’m reaching out to see if there are any ideas. I’ve been doing backyard chickens for about five years now. I started out with a dozen girls and over time am now nearing 90. Yep, chicken math. That, and the fact a lot of folks were wanting to buy eggs...

A few months ago we decided to take the plunge and hatch out some eggs of our own. I ordered a brooder through Amazon (a cheep "Smartchoices 12 egg incubator") but decided to go the "natural" way as I had some broody girls - one in particular, a bantam cochin who's wanted to be a Mama ever since...

I found a possum in one of my hen houses when I went to lock them up this evening. We lost a couple chicks we had brought home a couple of weeks ago. They were about two months old, real cute. It was a weekend we had so much rain. We had brought home eight chicks; Monday morning we did a head...

I wanted to do an update on my chickens. As I had started two threads about the various problems I was having I figured I'd combine it into a new thread. First, many thanks to those who took the time to give suggestions; they may or may not have all applied to my situation but ALL were...

This has been a crazy week with my chickens. Some of this I mentioned in another thread so I'll be brief. I had dusted my chickens, yard, and coop with Garden and Poultry dust (said on the label safe for chickens); but some of my chickens began making gurgling noises when they breathed. So I was...

Yesterday I did a complete cleaning of my main coop and yard. I had spotted some red mites on a recently purchased pullet last week and wanted to make sure it didn't develop into a major problem. I cleaned out their coops, yard, and roosting area replaced some hay with pine shavings over some Hi...

I've put some of this elsewhere so apologize for repeating. My wife and I live in the Southeast corner of Alabama (what we call the "other LA"), just a few miles from the Florida border and an hour and a half from the beach. Our house and little over an acre "spread" lies just outside the town...