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Thank you all! They’re both hens! 💜

5-6 months

Are these two babies male or female? Thank you for your thoughts!

The food has always been in pvc tubes that are closed at night. I’ve closed all holes with hardware cloth. I’ve redone the floors with sand, then packed dirt than sand again. I’ve redone the wood floors of the nesting boxes where they had chewed through.

Yes! Cutting windows with hardware cloth “panes.”

I’m hoping with the concrete floor, metal walls and the fact that I already close their feed at night surely they’ll be locked out and uninterested! 😩 We’re also moving them across the property.

I am tired of fighting rodents so I’m replacing our coop with a metal shed on a concrete slab. Does anyone have suggestions for the layout of the coop, roosting bars, laying boxes, etc? My chicken only sleep in the coop and are outside all day. We are in NW Arkansas so winters are usually not...

I’ve done all the “sanitation” suggestions and moved over 30 mice with catch and release traps. I won’t use poison as we have a barn cat and multiple wild predators that I will not put in jeopardy. It’s truly a mystery why the mice are so plentiful. I am spending the weekend plugging any new...

I will definitely not use poison. My chickens occasionally eat the smaller mice, the snakes eat them and we have a barn cat that eats them, too. Further, the poison used to kill rodents is horribly inhumane. I’m looking for deterrent that is safe for all involved.

We are overrun with mice in the chicken house. We have feed tubes that are closed each night, three tame wild snakes on constant patrol and have closed every hole I can find only to have them chew another in 24 hours. I’m looking for a product that will deter the mice and not affect the chickens...

So sorry, I should’ve been more clear! NorthWest Arkansas.

I have a gorgeous, sweet with humans yet super protective of the hens, Barred Rock rooster who needs a new home. He is about a year old and we love him. He’s just too large for most of my hens. I want him to go to a home where he can have a happy life and not be someone’s dinner.🥲 If you are...

Bless you!! I just had a friend drop off a cross beak that their cousin didn’t want to deal with. I was trying egg yolk and starter as a paste. Just ordered hand feed! Thank you for this advice!!

Bless you for this informative, practical article! I just had a pretty bad fight two days ago. One of my free range roosters (I am not one who can kill them so we have a 3000+ ft enclosure for my hens and two roos and five roos that live outside this enclosure) flew into hen town. My oldest...

I’m considering clipping since my free range chickens have started flying into the dog yard and being played with to death. My concern is, will they still be able to escape predators with clipped wings? The dog fence is 4 feet high. Will clipping even help?

Thank you!!

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My rooster’s leg has still not healed. He has been thru three rounds of penicillin and the leg is still oozing puss and smells like death. I clean it every few days and spray it with antiseptic spray but nothing has worked. Just when I think it’s healed he gets sick to the point of death. The...

He was doing well or so I thought. He had an injury to his leg that we didnt notice and is now infected. I just scrubbed it out with soap and water and applied the blue spray. Will be giving another shot of penicillin tomorrow morning. I feel so bad that I missed this injury! The hubs thinks it...