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A great way to get local birds is to check the Ad Bulletin, which comes out every Tuesday and is for sale in most gas stations. They have a livestock section and there are people who sell chickens and other birds of all ages, including chicks. You can also find already laying hens there. I...

We are super close! We used to live in Dunbar, but now live in Culloden. I know how it is worrying about animals when you are new to raising some. It's our first year with rabbits, and I was worried when we wound up with a couple of litters of newborn bunnies last month during a cold snap with...

We use open air coops, too, and are in West Virginia, zone 6. Countryside magazine just published a letter I wrote about it, but I did not submit any photos because I didn't know how to upload photos online. I just never took the time to figure it out, but did today, so I can post my pics here...

I have red stars, black star, rhode island reds, and easter eggers, all born last 8-17. The stars started laying first right about the first week of January. Next, the RIR started laying and finally the EE. I got the EE just for the novelty of colored eggs, but in hindsight, colored eggs...

Oh, I just saw another post about about my pen design. The whole thing is a pen, 100 square feet total with 13 two month old chicks. A lady added 3 chicks to my order but she hasn't taken them yet as she has to do repairs to her coop. So, I will only have 10 birds once she gets hers. (She...

I did cover all my hardware cloth walls with window screen stapled to the inside so they have no way to run up the walls anymore. And they can't sit on top of the bottom wood wall board since the screen covers the wood edges as well. One chicken had lost 2 toes and one lost one. They seem...

Oh, I didn't even think of them pecking at it! Yikes! Should I try to bandage it? For my roost poles, I have a collection of several 3 inch wide boards with rounded edges in a criss cross pattern. I have 4 - four foot long roost poles about 10 inches apart with more roosts going...

Yes, I worked on mine all summer. It's 100 square feet total in an L shape and is an open coop design. I built it as large as my available space would allow. I have a communal nestbox built on the outside so I can get eggs from the outside via the hinged lid. It is only 4 feet tall with 2...

Thanks so much for the quick replies already. I will try to answer all the questions. I have a home built chicken pen that I worked a long time on this past summer. I got tons of ideas here and would like to post pictures, but I haven't spent time trying yet. It is built on the ground so...

Hi all, I have had 2 chickens (they're about 2 months old) within the past couple of days mysteriously lose the end of their middle toes. The only thing I can think of that might be happening is I have their pen totally enclosed with 1/2 " hardware cloth. I have seen them try to climb up the...

This is my first ever post and I do not suggest using a staple gun to attach any barrier. I lost my 11 chicks at 4 weeks of age due to a raccoon that simply pulled the staples out that were holding a combination of chicken wire and hardware cloth to a wood frame (stapled to the exterior). It...