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I used the cold water method about three months ago on a stubbornly broody buff Orpington. I put a wide tray of water in the run and lowered her body in. She raised a total ruckus in return! The rooster, who is generally wary of me but aggressive with others, went ballistic on me. He was...

Your chickens are just chicken! Chickens are so afraid of doing new things that they are the perfect example of being chicken! All it takes is for one brave chicken to take the plunge and when the others see that she didn’t die in the process they will consider doing whatever it is themselves.

With a little time having passed, the black on the comb is healing, getting more healthy looking. All of my Black New Jersey Giants now have the feather loose around the neck. I lost one chicken last week due to heat (115) and I decided to thin them out a bit, so 8 have moved to the freezer. I...

This is SoCal desert and we usually hit 120 at least once each summer but other people around here have chickens. A typical day in summer is 102 - 112. I have misters and they run five minutes every half hour. At first the mist scared the heck out of them but now they know it is cooler so...

No chance of frostbite here. I am actually taking them through the first few days of a normal summer, it spiked to 114 this afternoon. The blackened spikes do have some white at the base of the white tips. I’ll see if I can catch him tomorrow,

What are you thinking, cones off does not come off?

It was red, normal red. He had a couple points of the comb that went totally black but they are a bit better now. You can see second and third points from the back that are still a little black.

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Several of my hens have this same thing on the back of the neck but I figured it was caused by this guy, grabbing by the back of the neck when he mates. I was surprised a couple days ago to see the rooster has the same thing. It looks to me like feather have been plucked out but I've never seen...

i have a broody hen that had 6 eggs under her over two weeks ago. She has her nest in deep pine shavings on the floor of the coop, which is very secure. I marked the eggs and decided to let her be. Everyday I have checked her, and many days she would have a new egg under her but also one of...

Before you think I am crazy, I live in the cal desert and we have already had our first 100 degree days. In June, July, August, 108 - 114 is a normal day. I am going to be gone for two months but I have someone to take care of the chickens. I want to make it as easy as I can for them. I...

I have 25 hens (Delaware, black NJ giant, buff Orpington) in the super-hot-in-summer SoCal desert. I intend to keep them through the summer. They have a well ventilated coop (5 sq ft per bird) and an outdoor run (11 soft per bird). Most of the run has shade throughout the day. The base of...

i have 25 hens and one busy rooster, all 6 months old. The hens started laying a couple weeks back and I now get 15 or so eggs each day. With all these hens laying, and with no idea on my part which eggs might be fertilized, how does a hen know? And if I get chicks will they be from one hen...

I have 25 hens, just beginning to lay, and one rooster, all 6 months old. I live in the SoCal desert and we will be seeing temps into the 100s in a month or so. By June we consistently will be in the 110 range and we can hit the low 120s. It’s like that until August when we get a monsoon...

Chickens don’t like change. A change of location can really set them back. It could be as simple as that.

This explains chicken behaviorvin lots of things.

It never snows here and almost never rains and when it does rain we are all out in it because it such a special thing to happen here.

Chicken hot tub! I took an old truck tire cut out one side, lined it with some 2x4 ends to make it smooth and filled it with fine material. It took them about a week to figure it out but now they all use it for dust baths. Don’t show this to your chicks - they may want to move to my place.

That’s a great idea. I’d love to get some shots of those critters getting zapped by the electric fence. I’ve zapped myself accidentally a few times and I compare it to getting hit with a watermelon, it doesn’t hurt you in a serious way but it gets your undivided attention.

I pulled up to our house this afternoon and my chickens, I’ve got 30, were all loudly making a rhythmic cluck I’d not heard before. I looked over to their run, 24 x 16, and there was a bobcat slowly walking along the wire fence, about two feet from the fence. It did not look like it was trying...