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    Topic of the Week - Keeping Chickens Cool in Summer

    Yes! That makes a big difference.
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    Topic of the Week - Keeping Chickens Cool in Summer

    Glad you are managing to keep everyone comfortable! Just two things, because these keep popping up: 1. Fans do not help animals that don’t sweat cool down if they are just moving hot air. In cool air, fans can cool because of windchill alone (more air cooler than skin taking up more heat from...
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    Comment by 'Stephine' in article 'Reasons To Grow A Chicken Garden'

    This sounds nice, it would be great to get some practical advice on how to actually do this though. Chickens will absolutely demolish plants they like in short order. I could see letting them have access to an area with large established plants, but things like spinach, chard,etc. will just...
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    Comment by 'Stephine' in article 'Reasons To Grow A Chicken Garden'

    a lot of people and critters can handle oxalates just fine if they are not overdoing it. I am sorry you had issues but that’s not universal.
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    Comment by 'Stephine' in article 'Dealing with and Taming Aggressive Roosters'

    And that’s why I don’t have a too anymore. No need for body armor when visiting the flock nor constantly watching my back, nor researching endlessly about how to properly deal with a rooster. If I get an oopsie roo in the future I am willing to try again, but after having to give away one...
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    Ramp question: Can chickens hang a right? (90° turn)

    Careful with using a heat plate in an outside/unheated situation. They might not put out enough heat to keep your chicks warm enough. They are meant for indoor brooding and might state a minimum ambient temperature. I had chicks in our studio under a heat plate a few years ago, room at about...
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    Are there any good pre-fab coops?

    Oh, if you want to raise backyard chickens right, you will never break even. Keeping chickens costs much more than just buying eggs. The eggs you buy are produced in large scale operations and usually under conditions that are not what you would like to see in your own backyard flock. So keeping...
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    Bay Area BYCers!

    not at all. Our coop is on posts set into concrete pillars, with the top of the pillars about 12-14” above ground. All cedar. If there ever was a termite I am sure the chickens would gobble it up…
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    chick standing with head hanging down

    I’m rooting for yours! Often nutridrench or other chick vitamins and electrolytes and a few days of special care is all that’s needed. 🤞🤞🤞
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    chick standing with head hanging down

    Sorry about your chick! No, mine had her head on the ground, literally on the bedding, she couldn’t lift it up at all. I have since figured out that she was suffering from “pseudo botulism” a version of Marek’s that hits early and chicks usually recover from in a day or two with good supportive...
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    I may have finally found a cure for feather picking

    Good point. I have never had an issue with them and my GLW had a looong life with them. She never got to eat scratch treats (because she couldn’t find them), but she would have had to become stew were it not for the peepers (or live in solitary).
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    I may have finally found a cure for feather picking

    I had a GLW for 8 years who was a feather picker. I put pinless peepers on her before she was even a year old and that stopped her picking. Years later I took them off of her thinking she might be cured, but she immediately started ripping out feathers out of any hen in her vicinity again...
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    Comment by 'Stephine' in item 'Euskal Oiloa - Marraduna Basque'

    I saw that! Has anyone here gotten some from Meyer yet? What are they like?
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    How bad is it for dogs to eat chicken poop?

    Would be interesting to know what your pup came down with. Glad he recovered. I can’t imagine picking up after each chicken in real time… I would have confined either the chickens or the dog… Ours didn’t encounter chicken poop until he was 2, he has been handling it just fine (working breed...
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    How bad is it for dogs to eat chicken poop?

    Coccidia is specific to the species, so chicken cocci will not make a dog sick. There are dog specific cocci in the environment though, so he could have picked them up anywhere.
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    Egg withdrawal

    Oh, I know why you made the recommendation. I was more addressing the OP, because she didn’t want to stress her hen. I have a few easy going chickens in my flock, but everyone else would scream bloody murder (and maybe even the mellow ones) if I grabbed them off the roost and held them upside...
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    Egg withdrawal

    Great strategy, but I really do think that would increase the stress in the flock more than just separating a hen for a small while…
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    Egg withdrawal

    Right! I took apart some xpens so I can combine the panels in different ways. Those panels are worth their weight in gold - I use them for everything (brooder lid, separation in coop, safe pen outside during integration, to block access to stuff I don’t want the sheep to get into, fence...
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    Egg withdrawal

    You can buy a bunny wire cage, they are not expensive and you can just put it in the coop. Put hay in the bottom, so it’s cozy for her. It’s always good to have a means of separating a chicken…
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    Could this be broody behavior?

    Same. Be careful about just letting a broody be in the nest box - others will find it inspirational… broodiness is contagious! I didn’t get around to dealing with my broody Superblue for a few days this summer and she inspired not one, but two others to join her - two three year olds that have...
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