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I go through a couple of buckets a year because they split around the hole where these nipples screw into the wall. At first I thought it was because I was cranking down too hard but I has still happened the last few times I've swapped out and went lighter. Does anyone have any better ones that...

I put eggs under a broody hen on July 26th. I expected them to hatched early this week but went out to check and saw one egg with a hole in it and could hear peeping. I can see black (australorps) also. It seems a little early for them to start though. The hen recently moved all the eggs...

My coop height/design is less than ideal but for now, it’s what I’ve got to work with. The problem is anytime they get the idea in their heads, my chickens can hop up the 4 feet on top of the internal run or low side of the coop roof, walk over, then hop down into the rest of the yard. That’s...

I’m pretty confident but just want confirmation. Born October 13th so…17 weeks. TIA!

One of my girls just made the weirdest sound and the only thing I can think of was it was a sneeze. Very high pitched and short and sudden. 2 of them back to back.

I’ll go ahead and explain my username first! I was in the Air Force as an aircraft maintainer for C-130s. The first plane that I was assigned to had the tail number “0011.” So naturally, everyone called it “Balls Eleven.” Now onto the show… This is my first hatch period. I’ve had my chickens...

I will have some fertilized eggs coming in later this week and want to come up with a plan. My original plan was to put them all (8) under 1 hen and keep her with the flock until the chicks hatched then determine if they needed to be separated. This particular one is the most pissed off when I...

So I have 4 hens that all have gone broody together and I figure I might as well get some fuzz balls out of it so I plan on buying some hatching eggs. Only problem is the ones I want say they won't be delivered until the end of October. The hens have already been broody for at least the past...

4 of my 7 hens are broody :rolleyes: I've got 3 production reds and 4 white leghorn/RIR mixes. 3 mixes and a red are broody and I am thinking about giving them a couple eggs to sit on. My biggest issue right now is that even though I have 4 boxes, 3 of them want to sit in one box. I haven't...

Every time without fail when I let them out of their run, they haul butt for the spot where I dump my ash from my BBQ pit. Their feet hardly hit the ground they can't get there fast enough. They will also stay there for at least an hour or 2. I've never seen an unusual bug activity there and...

So I've got my coop and run, but also have fenced off a section of my backyard just for the chickens. Since a couple of the ninjas have figured out a way to hope over the 4ft fence, I don't let them out unless I am home since they always seem to make a bee line for my garden. I want to give...

I’ve got one production red that seems to be the leader of her flock. She recently started pecking feathers from the bottom of another to the point that I came home today to find her bleeding. Has anyone dealt with this? I have the bleeder separated for now.

I've got 4 RIR/Leghorn mixes. All 4 have been laying for a few months now (their first year). I was getting 3-4 a day like clockwork. Late last week, all 4 quite laying starting the exact same day and haven't had a single egg since then. Is that common?

Just found out our neighborhood is having an apple snail problem in our ditches. I know the eggs are poisonous to people but what about ducks?

I can't find them anywhere all of a sudden!

So I have 8 leghorn/rhode island red chickens that are about 7 weeks old. They are out in the coop/run and doing great. Eventually this number will be knocked down to 4 since half are roosters and they would disturb the neighbors too much (wide open neighborhood with .5 acre lots). I just got 3...

Long story short, I had been wanting ducks for a while but then my sister had an unexpected hatch of 15 chicks so we took in 8 of them. 4 ended up being male so I’ll get rid of them. So went to the store for more chicks and now have 3 pekin ducklings because I couldn’t resist. I’ve got the...

4 of the 8 chicks we got a month ago turned out to be male. I live in a neighborhood with 1/2 acre lots so I don't think my neighbors would appreciate listening to a rooster early in the morning (and neither would I). My original plan was to let them go as long as possible in the coop then the...

So I recently got some chicks and decided to build my own coop. I found a website with some great designs and picked one. I went with the 4x8 coop with an 8x8 run. Overall it wasn’t a difficult design at all. Took a little longer than I thought but turned out pretty good. I’ll update this post...

So I’m guessing the chicks I have currently are 5 weeks (a surprise batch from my sisters flock). They are Rhode Island Red/white leghorn mix. Half ended up being male so I want to add a couple more since I want a couple more egg layers. Question is, if I buy some chicks now how long do I need...