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I know many have done this before, but I'm overly excited and wanted to share. 😀 This is actually for a greenhouse, but if I ever build a larger chicken coop, I will make one of these. We have had a lot of struggles making this. Maybe sharing will help someone. The concrete pad is not level...

So about a month ago or so I noticed our favorite pet hen had a bumble on one foot. I Washed it, put ointment on, I changed the bedding in the coop and kind of forgot about it as she was acting normally. Then I saw it had gotten a lot worse a week or so ago with a knot forming on top of the foot...

Marie the chicken abandoned the nest after one chick hatched. I don't know if it happened today or last night as my husband locked the coop up yesterday. I found all eggs cold in the nest box. Mama and baby were in the yard and not even in the coop. I got a plastic oil tray we use for feeding...

Last year I planted a Triumph Muscadine (Scuppernong type) about 20 feet from the coop. I had ordered more vines, which died over the winter/fall. This year I ordered a Black Beauty Muscadine. I am thinking of planting it beside the chicken run, and letting it grow along the fence. Will the...

Forget Pandemic Puppies; Meet the Inflation Chicken I saw this news article about how inflation has impacted hatcheries, and I thought it was interesting. What are your thoughts? Maybe I should quit my current job and go work for Cackle. haha. In any case, I'm glad I can get chicks cheaper at...

Just wanted to share some pics of my new rex bunnies. I'm gonna attempt a small meat herd. Currently looking for my 2nd doe. My buck is the broken black otter color named Harvey. He was 8 weeks at that photo. The castor/chestnut is Tizzy. She is 9 months. They are both sweethearts.

Does anyone have any recipes for making your own yeast supplements (to add to duck feed) instead of purchasing them from the store? I did buy some from the store. But we also make our own sourdough starter. We also make our own wine. So I have these 5 gallon carboys with yeast sludge at the...

I'm a duck newbie but after thinking a while on it, finally got 4 pekin last night from some German Baptist family (similar to Amish) about 30 minutes from me. The ducks already made a mess of their water so I think they are eating.and drinking ok. But they are clearly terrified of me, the coop...

These things are so huge--the size of a small cat. I'm so grossed out! Whenever we catch one, if you walk by the cage, they leap up and scream at you like they're gonna rip your face off. If you pick up the trap to move it, they try to attack relentlessly. The wolf rats (or 'wuff rats' as...

Sorry the colors are a bit off because of the heatlamp, but I tried to white balance it a bit. So, the other chicks are cornish cross from Rural King. One died. The orange chick I got as a replacement a few days later. It came from the same bin. But it's definitely not a CC. The guy who pulled...

I finally caved after over a year of resisting temptation and got some $1.99 cornish x at Rural King. The hubs is unconvinced this is a good idea as he loathes processing. But he is relieved he won't have to make an extra coop as our current coop is plenty big for more...not that they are gonna...

Just wanted to share/brag on my husband who took two months to build this during his afternoons after getting off work. Half of it was built in the dark while wearing a headlamp. He got the pallets, posts, and lumber free from the city landfill/dump site. The fencing and tin roof was leftover...

If you bought meat chickens from Rural King or Hoover's Hatchery: 1) What did you buy? 2) How did you like them and why? I am very tempted to get some next time they're marked down after eating our tiny (yet terribly delicious) heritage rooster. I had no idea how rich and chicken-y a flavor a...

I got the hatch date wrong! I thought it would start tomorrow, and I wasn't ready! I had this feeling I should check on them today and found 1 chick alive, and 1 chick squished to death. Then a couple hours later, found a second chick in there. I have two broodies hatching nests at once. They...

I'm sorry if someone else already asked, but I couldn't find a specific answer. My Polish 1 year old hen, Minette, is very ambitious. I thought she had maybe 6 eggs under her; but, I just counted and there are 17 eggs tucked under those feathers! :eek:I have no idea how she was able to sneak...

My 9/10 week old BBW poults have decided that one of my chicken pullets must die 😑 ...because she is molting. Amazingly enough, the 10 week poults are already bigger than her! And far more aggressive. I saw one of them body slam her down and go after her like crazy. The back of her head and...

I know this question has been asked before. But I'm so nervous. I stayed up all night last night fretting anxiously over the temperature being 42 degrees F with the 8 week old turkey poults. They were perfectly fine this morning after having snuggled down in the coop nesting boxes, in the...

After waiting almost two and a half weeks, I found it yesterday. I think it was the head chicken Madea that laid it. She's an Ameraucana, the oldest, and has been walking around for days with a piece of grass in her beak arranging it in different places like she wanted to build a nest. But she...

Heyas, I wanted to share a few pics of my new flock I cobbled together. The last time I had chickens, was about twenty years ago while I was in college. :old Now I am doing things totally different this time. My previous flock were Rhode Island Reds with a Pheonixy looking rooster and a few...

(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? I had chickens back when I was in college. That was a while ago though. Now my husband and I just bought a house last summer. I got a couple turkey poults and am prolly gonna pick up a few bantams this weekend. (2) How many chickens...