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I'd be happy to ship them, Hannacat, but don't know how to keep them warm enough to survive the trip.

If there anyone in the Harrisburg area that would like to give this a try, I'd be happy to supply you with some. My colony is getting too big for the chickens to keep up with.

Hello fellow Pennsylvanians! For reasons I won't go into, I need to leave my husband and lovely home. Does anyone know of a small house for rent that isn't too far from Harrisburg/Mechanicsburg, that will also allow me to bring my chicken coop? This is so hard for me, because I realize that I...

Great video. I saw it when a listing was posted on the Lancaster PA Craigslist. Please also post in on the Harrisburg CL. I know chicken people who would be interested.

I probably feed out the roaches two or three times a week. I have 9 chickens, so I am probably feeding around 50 roaches a week. I don't know how big my colony is, but there always seems to be a lot! If you are buying roaches to feed, it doesn't matter what sex they are. But when raising them...

I started my colony about a year ago, after I saw how much the girls love these roaches. It is so much easier than raising mealworms. I made a video of them enjoying their roachy snack:

I usually make sure each chicken gets several roaches. They can eat them pretty quickly. I always make sure to leave at least a couple of winged males behind. I also feed the not fully grown males, which have a tapered bottom (the females bottom is more rounded). I seem to always have enough...

Two of my favorite hens had gotten broody, and I happened to mention to my vet that it was a shame they would never hatch anything, because I have no rooster. She gave me 4 fertile eggs, and I put 2 under each, and pretty much forgot about it. Yesterday, one of the eggs hatched! I checked the...

Put ice cubes in the water. I put a frozen ice pack near my broody hen. Others have suggested freezing water bottles and laying them in the coop.

Can you temporarily put one on a hen just to show us how it should look?

Joe, can you post a picture of how the tie wrap works? I don't understand how it works. Thanks!

Diatomaceous earth (food grade). Do a search - there is lots of info about it.

I sent you an email. You are right - it is vague, but does not specifically say you can not have chickens.

Call your township zoning office.

Here is the answer, from Livestrong.com: Fertile vs. Unfertilized Eggs Whether your egg has been fertilized by a rooster or not, its nutritional profile remains the same. According to the American Egg Board, "there is no nutritional difference between fertile eggs and generic eggs." Read...

I couldn't imagine why the cholesterol would be different, but this woman was so insistent that I had to find out if it was true!

I was in a doctor's waiting room, telling someone about my hens. I said I did not have a rooster because I didn't want neighbors to complain about the crowing. She said that I need to have a rooster because fertilized eggs have less cholesterol. I have never heard this before. Does anyone know...

I was in a doctor's waiting room, telling someone about my hens. I said I did not have a rooster because I didn't want neighbors to complain about the crowing. She said that I need to have a rooster because fertilized eggs have less cholesterol. I have never heard this before. Does anyone know...

See the sticky above "How to Skin and Eviscerate a Chicken."