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Okay so last year we moved from our home in a development to a homestead with more land. We have two german shepherds. One is a very, very friendly older dog that will lay next to the chickens and let them PECK her and she doesn't even care and the other one is a 3 year old dog. The 3 year old...

My hen went broody and I can't have her hatch anymore eggs. So I hung a dog crate/cage and put her in it to get her to not be broody anymore. I read somewhere that your supposed to give them just water and no feed when you do this. Is that true???

So one of my Buff Orpington hens went broody for the first time yesterday. She is sitting on 6 eggs now. I want to candle the eggs to see if their fertile or not.....but I've never candled eggs before. Can I just use a flashlight??? We have LED flashlights too. Since they have only been fertile...

So one of my Buff Orpington hens just went broody for the first time and is sitting on 3-4 eggs. I have never had a a broody hen before or hatcherd eggs. I think I want to let her hatch them. But do I need to move her nest box to a different area/make her a seperate coop??? Should I wait till...

I do the deep litter method in my coop. The shavings have been building up over the winter. Now its pretty dirty in their and starting to smell a little bit. So I want to take all the bedding out and put new bedding in there. But their is so much bedding in there now (the coop is 11 by 6) and I...

I am probably getting some meat birds this summer but I wasn't sure what to feed them. I know they need a higher protein amount then layers.....and Purina Starter doesn't have enough protein. Dumor Chick Starter has 24% protein but it's not medicated. Dumor is the only feed that has a higher...

I was researching the amount of protein that the Dumor feed has and the Dumor chick Starter has 24% of protein and the Chick Starter/Grower has 20% of feed. Would Dumor be a good feed to feed meat birds.....I can't find anything else with higher protein??? Should I just feed the Cornish chicks...

So I have 11 chickens right now. I have 5 Brahma hens, 5 Buff Orpington hens and 1 Brahma rooster. I want to get 5 Cornish X's, 5 Barred Rocks and 5 Easter Eggers this spring......so thats 15 chicks total. My family seems to think thats to many!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But the Cornish Crosses will be...

I might be getting some Cornish Xs this summer and I was reading that your not supposed to leave their feed in their coop 24 hours a day. How do you guys do it??? Do you take their food out at night, or just a few hours during the day??? At what age do you start taking their food out??? Do you...

The chickens got to go outside today and I got some pictures!!!!!!

I mgiht get some layers and meat birds this summer from Cackle Hatchery and they are going to have seperate coops in the barn but I didn't know if they should have seperate pastures or not.....they will be the same age. Should I just build a tractor for the meat birds or can I put the layers and...

Well the breeds you have listed are great egg layers but their temperments are not the greatest. Like the leghorns are a flighty breed which mean they will get scared more easily, aren't the best around little kids, are not extremly calm (like they won't just sit in you lap) but they are great...

I was reading that your supposed to feed a meat bird/broiler chick feed to meat chicks and then a meat birds grower feed when they get older. But I've NEVER seen a meat bird/broiler feed at tractor supply or any feed mill around here. Can I just feed Purina Start and Grow and then Purina Grower???

I might get some Cornish rock crosses this summer but I was reading that your not supposed to let meat birds out in a large grassy yard/field because they will use up energy running around instead of gaining weight. Is that true??? I was going to let my meat birds outside everyday so they can...

I have 10 hens and two roosters.....one rooster is a Brahma and the other one is a Buff Orpington and they are all 8 months old. We have never had any problems with the roosters up until recently. The Brahma rooster is very, very friendly....he will let you hold him and pet him and he is really...

I might be getting some meat chickens this summer but I don't know what I would feed them. I feed my egg layers Purina Layer....and when they were babies I fed them Purina Start and Grow. Can I feed the meat birds Purina Start and Grow and then Purina Grower or is their a special feed for meat...

I have 10 hens and 2 roosters that are 8 months old....they are Buff Orpingtons and Brahmas. I noticed that 2 or 3 of my hens have bare backs.....you can see their pink skin and one of them has a scab. I think it's because the roosters are being to rough when they mate with them(either that or...

I might get some meat chickens this summer but I don't know much about them. I wasn't sure if I should put roosts in their coop or not if I get them. Do you have roosts for you meat chickens in their coop???

If I get goats this summer I was just going to keep them in one pasture. But then I heard that some people rotate their goat's pasture. Do you guys rotate your goats pasture??? How big are you pastures for two goats??? Do you just move the fence or do you have several stationary pastures??? I...

I thought that you had to breed a goat once to get them to start producing milk. But then I read that you have to breed them every year to get them to keep producing milk. And that you have to dry them up or something every year. How long do you dry them up for??? What time of year do you breed...