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chickens are generally safer from predators in a pen though i have noticed my girls lay better when free ranging. i sometimes let them free range if i'm going to be outside so that i can watch my dog(who will kill them if i'm not looking) or chase off hawks. at the end of the day they go to...

most chicken predators are nocturnal. as long as you close them up at night they should be fine 98% of the time. hawks are your main daytime concern and dogs can be a problem too if you have any neighbors with dogs that run loose. i personally worry more about my dog killing my chickens than...

the only time i lost a chicken to something it ate was when i fed them avocado shells. don't ever feed chickens avocado. it will kill them. anyway i don't feed layer feed unless i'm planning on breeding but when i do i mix it in with the regular feed mainly because i want to make sure all my...

yeah my cochin will let me lift her up to check under her which i often do for larger batches because sometimes they break. actually anything over ten you need to keep an eye on and remove any broken ones or it'll foul the rest of the nest. you can remove any rotten straw when she gets off to...

i'm working on a cricket, mealworm, and earthworm tank. and during japanese beetle and June bug season i'll go out with a jar early morning and dump the japanese beetle clusters into the jar and in the hottest part of day i'll sit in the shade of my porch and wait for the june bugs to land and...

i still have one. he was my very first chicken i ever had. i've been raising chickens for four years. Shadow is roughly 8 years old now. i won't have him for much longer but that is my baby. he is a cochin. that's him along with my fist hen Midnight. but Shadow is cuddly. he'll take...

do i have to be in the hatch along to enter? and if not where do i enter the contest?

i have a 200 something year old coop that has layers upon layers of chicken history. occasionally i dig out excess dirt for the garden but for the most part my coop hasn't been cleaned pretty much ever. it isn't really possible to clean anyway. i've never lost a bird to environmental...

sexlinks lay for two to three years. chickens can live as long as a dog or cat. my cochin rooster is roughly 8 years old.

pure aloe plant helps with burns too among other things. we put it on stings too.

i've heard putting Vaseline on their comb and waddles helps prevent frostbite.

i once physically caught a hawk. i let it go of course but it was after a dove i had. the dove was in a chicken wire pen which was up against the corner of my chickens' pen and the hawk got stuck between the wire. and my dove was fine. my little sebright warned me it was there as i was...

My Dawn hatched out another eight chicks. that's her second batch this year! she hatched out 2 definate splashes, three definate blacks and two definate blues and one i'm not sure how to classify. it looks too dark to be a splash and too pale to be blue. also one of my blacks has alot more...

back when i had my only a cochin rooster i gave him a lemon quarter. he looked sideways at it then shook his neck feathers and walked away, clearly saying yeah that's gonna happen. befoe i knew about avocado i lost two birds to it. and good to know about buttercups. my chickens won't touch...

what about dog food. my chickens really seem to like it especially when i soak it in water to make it easier for them to eat.

so can anyone tell me why it is so hard to find standard red cochins but not bantam red cochins?

somebody made a mistake at the grocery store.

i usually just toss new ones in with some feed. there's a few fights the first day and as long as no one bleeds i let them work it out. never lost a hen to fights. i don't bring new adults in very often. and brooder raised chicks stay in my basement until they can fly, with young chicks...

yeah sometimes my little Ivy gets worked over something and just won't stop telling me all about it!

for me my reason was Shadow enough said. when i brought Shadow and my first hen home there was no going back!