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I just moved my 5 week old hens into their coop and run over the weekend. The coop is raised with a wood floor so I use pine shavings and its nice and dry and fine. The covered run has a concrete floor and the first night and day it rained and I did not have gutters so the rain dripped down the...

I have 8 mixed flock chicks that are 1 week old today. My neighbor ordered 5 new chicks after a disastrous order last week and they will be arriving tomorrow. If all of them come alive, she will be giving 1 to me as she only wants 4. I am happy to take it but I do not have a separate area for...

I just noticed one of my Australorp chicks twitching her head and gaping. No noise came from her mouth. She is eating, drinking and otherwise acting normal except every so often she will do this. I have 8 chicks total and they have had earthworms twice in the past 3 days. Am I overreacting or...

I ordered 8 chicks yesterday and one died on the way. My order was 3 Rhode Island reds, 2 Australorps, 1 barred Plymouth rock, 1 partridge Plymouth rock and 1 speckled sussex. I had thought the speckled sussex died but now I'm wondering if it was the partridge Plymouth rock. The light and dark...

I'm in Central Maryland and about to start building my run. The only available place in my yard is an 8' x 22' strip of concrete. My coop is a converted wood storage shed that is 5' x 8'. I don't have great drainage in that area but will be implementing some plans including a perforated drain...

I'm at the beginning of my coop and run build and thinking ahead to the waterer and feeder which I'm thinking will be PVC pipe. I'd like to be able to feed and water from the outside of the coop and was thinking of installing the pipe through the hardware cloth into the run. I'm concerned that...

I'm new to raising chickens and had a question about which breeds to order. If I live in a climate (I'm in Maryland) that can get down to the teens regularly in the winter and also into the 90's regularly in the summer, should I be looking for a cold-hardy or heat-hardy chicken? I assumed...