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I'm new to this chicken business, just been working on it for about two years now and have raised meat and egg birds for the family. I don't know if I've been doing it on "pasture" as I've been doing it on my suburban acre of lawn. Well, between making the garden a lot bigger and having more...

I have a little game bantam hen who when she first started laying eggs had some of her insides pop out! I checked her later and everything went back into place. That was September/Oct. Two days ago I noticed it has happened again. Gave it a few hours but she still has some blood and tissue...

I'm getting a batch of 30 chickens in July and would like to put them in a brooder box in my barn. I have a "duck tractor" that is 4 x 10 wrapped in hardware cloth that will work for the brooder and an old animal stall in the barn to park it in. (I'd rather have them in the house to keep a...

I am considering ordering from Myers Poultry Farm this summer as I won't be able to do the typical chick days in the spring at the feed store. I can't do spring birds at all (big family wedding on the West Coast to go to! eeek!) and need to order in August. I'm afraid to order too far away from...

I have two Spangled Russian Orloff roosters hatched 9/10/07 from Sand Hill Preservation Center. These big boys are gorgeous, big and just started to crow. Would make quite the 4H project as they are a rare breed. I have feed them animal-product free feed and they range within electric poultry...

Currently my five ducks are using buckets and a little plastic swimming pool for water. Before I got ducks I thought I would just pour the water where needed in the garden. But I didn't realize how heavy the kiddie pool would be, or how time consuming it would be to bail it out. Anyone know...

I built a little movable coop out of a garden cart: http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1430...9633d5874_b.jpg It was supposed to be for a trio of bantams but things didn't go according to plan (how shocking!) and it is now trying to hold 1 bantam roo (Oliver) and his two hens plus three other...

I bought a tractor/coop on craigslist and picked it up last week. It needs some retrofitting as it is really really heavy. It is 6 ft long, about 2.5 ft wide and about 3 ft high with an upstairs with the roost and nest boxes and a downstairs enclosed in wire. I didn't expect it to have a wire...

My order from Sand Hill Preservation Center "Dedicated to the Preservation of Our Genetic Resources" will turn 6 wks old this week and are feathered out. I'm still unsure about some id's but can clearly tell hens/roosters on most. I am NOT an expert on this! I will not ship but am outside of...