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Like most chicken keepers we use smaller containers to keep scratch at hand (after all we use very little) We recently had a fun mess with our organic feeds when we opened our scratch grains bin to find an infestation of thousands of black bugs that look sort of like tiny horned beetles. They...

My chickens are about 18 or 19 months now. The first winter they were trained to stay in the coop and go in at night. During the summer they were allowed to sleep out in the run which has some nice high perches for them and they seemed to love it. My run is completely protected from the wind...

We have three easter egger chicks, which from my research seem to be the hardest to sex when they are young. Since about 3 days old I suspected one of them may be a rooster. IMPOSSIBLE to tell i know but she was always larger, started to feather faster and when her sisters started to feather and...

Hey everyone! Cleveland Ohio here! We get mild winters or arctic winters with several feet of snow overnight and little in between! We are new to raising chickens, we do know we need to get a cover over the run for winter but don't think the current structure will support the weight of the snow...

Hey, Everyone! I'm Kyle! I wanted to post and say that I am new to raising chickens in Cleveland, OH and like everything else in life, Google has been my best friend in answering questions and learning to set up my coop and run. Backyardchickens.com forum has almost always been the number one...