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My shingled shed-converted coop is very dark in winter in the daytime. I have a hanging light with cage around it but it only puts out 75 watts. I like the design, but it's still too dark for them to be able to forage around in the hay on coop floor and so on. I'm looking for something with...

I live in South Dakota and we're just been through a number of weeks of snow. The girls don't like to go outside in snow, even with hay on top, unless the sun is shining. They don't like the typical boredom busters such as hanging cabbage. They do like it when I leave the main coop door open to...

In my first year of raising chickens I went from putting up shade cloth in the summer to clear tarps in the winter. Is there some material that can stay up year-round? Also wondering what run roofing material people have chosen. For reference, I live in South Dakota, where summer temps get up...

This morning when I opened the pop door, a dead 9-month old pullet was right next to the pop door. The other four birds were up on the roost, acting normally. There have been no changes in diet. This bird had never been ill as far as I was aware and has been laying eggs daily, including...

I live in Hot Springs, SD (southwestern black hills), a dry climate, where winter temps have become extreme. Tonight/tomorrow lows expected -25 to -30 degrees F. The air temp here can get even colder than this, apparently (actual temp, excluding wind chill). I should add that winter temps are...

In researching in this forum, I was very anxious when others mentioned adding Vitamin B or antibiotics and so on as if they have all of these medicines in chicken-form available to them at a moments' notice. I have dealt with a sick hen in the past and now it looks like another is ill. I'm...

I'm a new chicken owner. Bernice is an 18 week old Cinnamon Queen who started laying on 8/10. She's the first of my five girls to start. After laying 4 perfect little eggs, she then laid two soft-shell eggs on 8/15. Afterward she squawked in an urgent fashion while standing in her wading pool...

She's about 20 weeks and not yet laying. She's white with grey markings and has yellow feet and beak. She has an almost non-existent light orange comb and wattle.

Bob is about 4. 5 months old and is great with the hens. Unfortunately, the neighbors have complained about his crowing.