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For the last few weeks, I've been free-ranging our 12 chickens, (four older girls who are 22-weeks and 10 18-week olds, including two cockerals) and things had been going great. I started letting them out about an hour before dusk and had been gradually increasing the time that they were...

Since there are apparently no limits to my chicken obsession, I am thinking about getting an incubator but I need some input from you guys - you all seem to know so much! I'd hate to run out to TSC and buy the LG and turner they have there just because I WANT IT NOW and it's fairly...

These are from Ideal via our local Feed Store and they're supposed to be little girls, but since I'm so new to chickens I'm kinda concerned. They're about 5 weeks old. Izzo (Black Australorp) And Miss Kitty (sold as a RIR, but if "she" is something else, please tell me): I hope they're...

As part of my Mother's Day gift, my amazing kids and husband finished off all the work on the new coop that I was planning to do this week. They dug trenches, they unrolled hardware cloth, they stapled, painted and stained, hammered, and just generally worked their little butts off. Even the...

This isn't really about baby chicks per se, but more about my mental stability. We just got our first little chickies from our local feed store and they're about a week old; we're in love with our little RIR, Australorp, Light Brahma and Silverlaced Wyandotte but... ...I WANT MORE. I...

After more than a year of lurking on these forums, I have chicks! I was scared to death but now that they're here, I'm soooo happy that we got them. The whole family, complete with camera, picked them out at our local feed store this afternoon and I'm already in love. I'll post pictures once...

First of all, I have to tell you that I'm obsessed with chickens and we don't even HAVE chickens yet! Anyways, we're about to get our first girls and I thought I knew exactly what I was going to do...I was going to place an order for 5 or so laying hens (Easter Eggers, Australorp, Oprington, a...

First of all, great site full of wonderful information. When my husband got the idea to have chickens in our suburban/bordering on rural (we have over two acres but we're pretty close to town) back yard, I have to admit I thought he was crazy. After doing a TON of research (a lot of it thanks...