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These are my Mille Fleur D'Uccle roosters, King Arthur and Lancelot, just for comparison.

Hey, I know it's 6 years later, but how did your Mottled Cochin/Mille Fleur D'Uccle cross breeding program go? I left my 3 Bantam Mottled Cochin hens with my Mille Fleur D'Uccle flock and have some cross breeds; just wondering how yours are doing 6 years into your experiment. Here are 2 of my...

I've read you can put Vaseline on combs and wattles to prevent frostbite damage. Has anyone tried this? Did it help? Any problems with other chickens pecking at the Vaseline?

This. Our grandkids and their parents live on the property. We talked about the "Plan": hens for eggs the first year, then a rooster and any chicks would be meat. If we (ex-city-suburb dwellers) succeeded in harvesting chickens we'd talk about rabbits, and maybe someday pigs. When the first...

We ended up with one "accidental" rooster in our first flock; kept him because our eventual goal, once we made most of our beginner mistakes, is to let nature take it's course and harvest clutches raised by any broodies. (Our original, hand-raised flock have names and are "grandfathered in"...

thank for the great article! Our first foray into tending a backyard flock gifted us with one Roo, our all iridescent black PepperRoo. He is the light of our garden of hens; from his first hysterical gargling moaning crowing practises to his spot-on kind treatment and management of his girls. He...

Hey, thanks! We're using the "deep bedding" technique in the coop and the covered parts of their yard. Come Spring I'll don a filter mask and pitchfork all those layers of straw and droppings out then wheelbarrow it to the haphazard compost heap i started last Spring. For now we're using raised...

Hello Crazy Chicken People! Here goes with my intro data. Background: Sacramento California born & bred both hubby and me. Tired & disgusted with city life, living in a land with only two seasons - the predominant one being HOT AND DRY, and parched in body & spirit after 3+ years of severe...

Sounds like the racoon that got three of our girls. I saw it from our kitchen window; it was running out of the coop with a hen's head it its jaws. I yelled to my husband on my way out the back door and he came running with a varment gun and the dogs. The racoon had killed 2 and mauled...

Hi! We're new, too. Bought chicks around mothers' day, lost 1 chick (failed to thrive), and lost 3 more at about 6 weeks to a marauding raccoon when we didn't get the coop door shut in time. Added twice to our flock for diversity - no, actually I just had chicken fever ha ha - so now we have 5...

Hi - new to this forum, and we're in our first year with our flock, so many mistakes to be made! We started seriously augmenting our girls' (plus their Roo overlord) diet around October getting ready for winter. I started offering store-bought whole greek yogurt with their treats. They were...