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Yesterday my 1 year old Olive Egger was free ranging in my backyard, I was out with her and her 2 sisters and an Australian Shepherd was running loose in the field behind my house. Well, my chickens where out by my chain link fence and the dog was able to tear into the fence and grab my Olive...

My 33 week old Black Copper Maran stopped laying about 4 weeks ago. She was consonantly laying every 1-2 days before then since she was about 25 weeks old. I thought it was due to the sunlight and that it was normal this time of year for that to happen. Other than the no egg-laying, her health...

My 7month old Black Copper Maran just started laying 1 month ago. She was laying pretty regularly, one egg every other day or so up until about 7 days ago. I know with the daylight hours getting shorter chicken laying schedules get changed up a bit, but I haven't had one egg from Cilantro (BCM)...

Can anyone tell me if this Black Copper Maran is a Rooster? The one with the light pink smaller comb I'm almost positive is a pullet. I'm just not sure if they mature differently. Big Red just doesn't have the personality of a rooster from what I've read, just thought I would get some opinions...

Okay my BackYard Chicken people, I have a major delema, that is both heartbreaking and frustrating. (Sorry in advanced for the long post) I have a spunky 8 year old westie terrier that has been around my chicks since week one. He had grown comfortable around them being inside in their brooder...

https://www.backyardchickens.com/content/type/61/id/7828406/width/200/height/400[/IMG][/IMG][/IMG] Some people say they can tell the gender at 4 weeks, but I'm not sure what to look for. Also how will their characters differ?

]Hello! I have ordered 4 Orpingtons from my local farm and was under the impression I would receive buff Orpingtons. Being a first time chicken keeper I thought there was ONLY buff orpingtons but I got these gorgeous striped little babies and couldn't be happier. (The black birds are black...