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My Easter Egger is about 7 weeks old. She's still looking pretty straggly as far as the feathering is going, but her tail is especially sparse and I think her comb is getting pink. Can anyone hazard a guess yet? Thank you!

I've got an Australorp and a Black Java that I think are roosters. The Java's about 7 weeks old, the Australorp about 6. Here's the Java in question: Here's a head shot of the Australorp: And here's a group shot of my Australorp and my two Javas. The Australorp is on the far left. My...

This coop construction project is dragging on a lot longer than I had thought, so in order to make me feel like we're making progress, I thought I'd set up a construction log. On June 13th, we began construction by demolishing the poorly-functioning hippie greenhouse on our future coop site...

My 4-chicken coop will be a 4 foot cube: four feet wide, four feet deep, four feet high. I think the openings to my external nest box will be 2-4 inches off the ground and will be 12-14 inches high. Because of door placement, the roost will have to be anchored above the nest box. I was...

Lest this question appear idiotic, please know that you're dealing with a construction idiot. I've never built anything before. This website's been great, but I've gotten to another place where I need to ask for advice. I've got my foundation laid, and tomorrow, I should have the wall framing...

Sigh...I knew I should have quarantined the three 3-week-old chicks we got today before introducing them to our two 2-week-old chicks, but was assured by a couple local chicken gurus that it would be better to introduce them to each other immediately to avoid them forming two small flocks later...

For a myriad of reasons, my housemates and I chose to support local businesses and hatcheries when we decided to "go chicken," but we also wanted different breeds of chicken. We currently have a 2 week old Buff Orpington and a 2 week old Australorp, purchased from a new local store. Our...

I'm just about ready to break ground on my coop, and I'm absolutely terrified. As the lone girl in my family, I was never really allowed to help on construction projects. I kinda know the "theory" of it, but man...I really don't know if I'm up to this task. I believe that I at least need to...

Here's the situation: three of my housemates and I are building and managing a chicken coop together. We are all graduate students. We all keep pretty late hours with all the work we have to do. None of us is overly enthused about running outside in the morning to let the chickens out of...

I feel like I've been stalking the archives at BYC forever, so it was about time I created an account and left lurkland. I live in a graduate student housing co-operative. Last fall, a group of us formed a "chicken faction" to research what a small backyard flock would entail, if our city...