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I am looking for ideas for a more open chicken yard. I currently have a 12x6 run, but want to expand to a bigger space so my birds can have grass, shade, more places to dust bathe, etc. What does your yard look like? What type of fencing? Do you cover the whole area or is there a height you've...

Hello Fellow Layer Friends- I have 13 girls, about 6 or 7 whom just started laying in the last few weeks & am wondering if anyone has tips or tricks to get my stubborn girls to lay in their nest box. Right now, i am getting about 5 or 6 eggs a day. 3 of them are regularly laid in a box. The...

Just wanted to show off our Winnie the Welsummers first speckled egg. I'm in love!

I am now on Day 2 of my fermentation experiment. Im using a four bucket/4 day process. Each day i switch the scratch to the next days bucket, add water so that there is an inch excess of the grain, and replenish bucket 1 with new. Day 4 has holes in the bottom and will have a drip pan under it...

One of our girls laid our first egg this morning! (Despite the huge north eastern storm that dumped 2 feet of snow on us!). Looks like it's one the Rhode Islands or Golden Comets.

Hello I have a 18 week old white rock hen who has suddenly started limping. I noticed last night while closing up the coop. This morning i observed in better light. Her left hock is swollen and the foot itself is slightly turned inward. When she stands in one place, she pulls the left foot up...

In september i purchased assorted brown layer chicks to start my flock. I have been able to identify all of them except Petunia. At this point i kind of just grouped her in with my barred rocks, but she's just so different. She is much darker and doesn't have the distinctive black and white bars...

Hello I am a new member to the group. My family and i live on a 4acre small farm & enjoy homesteading as much as possible. Part of that was getting a flock of chicks this past September & i have fell in love with them! I have a flock of 15 brown laying hens that include barred plymouth rocks...