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I've only butchered one overly aggressive rooster, with help from experienced friends where we used to live. I will do it again, but between packing for myself and four kids, readying the house and animal chores for being away; plus reading up, gathering supplies, and mentally preparing to...

I have about 60 chickens. 12 are last year's adult hens, and the rest I bought from a hatchery via Rural King, born early August. I ordered two Black Copper Maran roos and two blue egg layer roos (maybe Easter Eggers?). There were five extra mystery chicks in with mine when i went to pick them...

I have about 40 chickens, last spring's babies and a motley crue of all different breeds, and about the last two months I have been getting an egg that smells rotten when cracked open. It doesn't smell atrocious like a rotten duck egg that didn't hatch in the summer heat, but gross enough that...

Thanks for the ideas! Isadora is right--he will be on a leash with a pulley, running the length of it. We cannot attach it to the house. The porch columns aren't strong enough. I wish we could :/

We are making a dog run for our new German Shepherd pup. A 150 ft steel cable will stretch from the front corner of our house back past the run, almost to the woods. We have to sink a telephone pole in front of our house to do this. Does anyone have any ideas on how to make the pole visually...

Thank you both! This is the first positive thing I have read :)

He resides in our freezer, by my hand, until it cools off in the fall and I stew him!

I came up from the basement yesterday to commotion; went outside and a large hawk was struggling to untangle itself from the chicken wire that had been a temporary run for this year's chicks. After he flew away I found three babes huddling together nearby and Elsa, a Colombian Wyandotte and my...

You bet we are!

This is immensely helpful for the future. Thank you!

Thank you everyone, for taking the time to answer. He will be culled soon. I was overwhelmed, with this and several other things swirling around in my life. I think I was looking for permission and I more than got it. I am also grateful for the suggestions. Very, very helpful. Thanks again. Have...

LaFleche, I don't take offense. You're right. I hate giving up on any creature. I hated hitting him with a stick, made me feel like a bully because I'm so much bigger. Once he goes after me he won't stop, whether I face him or walk away he keeps coming until I hit back. I've taken to keeping...

Hi everyone, Our White Leghorn, Roosty, turned rotten this spring. He goes after all of us, especially my three year old son. He's drawn blood several times on my son, husband and I, and once it was running down my son's hand. He pecked my one year old daughter on the cheek(!). We have almost...

Hi! They will be one month old on the 21st.

Thanks guys! :jumpy

Hi everyone! I live in northern Illinois with my husband, four children (all under 10 in 2020), two bickering sister cats and a gaggle of chickens. My friend moved and gave me her entire setup--coop, run, 12 chickens--in Dec '18. Our lives have been so much richer ever since! *Current...

How did it turn out? Did she make it? I have one acting like this :(

Thank you for this! It is very much appreciated :yesss:

Homeschoolin momma, what part of Illinois are you in? We homeschool too!

This is a well thought out article. Thank you for taking the time to write and share it with us!