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There are plenty of mosquitoes but it seems to have healed for the most part already. I will look up dry pox though as something to be on the lookout for. Thanks!

Thanks all! I was hoping just peck marks so good to get confirmation from y'all with more experience. We don't have a rooster so must be from her sisters.

One of our hens recently developed black marks on both sides of the back of her comb. She doesn't love being handled so I haven't picked her up for a close look .. wondering if these are just peck marks how long they would take to heal? Or should grab her to check it out?

Good idea! I already have the bag of pellets that they refused and was going to try a new "no waste" feeder so I can just give them pellets in the feeder they have been wasting with 😁

Thank you! This is so helpful. I've been wondering what a rational limit for treats would be.

Oh gosh do you have to soak pellets? I got some thinking they would waste less and they pretty much refused it dry. I feel like such a noob 😁 but it's been a good reminder that we all start out knowing nothing!

Water is so essential to both! Well any critter I suppose. I've been giving a daily "morning mush" .. just wet crumble fed by hand every morning. The farm I got them from did that to get them to come to hand. With the cooler mornings I've been doing that with warm water and the ladies seem to...

Do you think COB (rolled corn, oats, and barley) would work? I add it to the horses' feed in winter but not sure if the other grains would be OK for the chickens?

I'm new to chickens, and we're expecting our first cold snap. With horses we change how we feed during the winter as they generate body heat through digestion. Do chickens do this? Do you change what you feed during cold weather? If so, how?

Thanks! It was under the "report" menu so didn't think to look there.

I store clean ones on the counter on a skelter, wash and refrigerate any dirty ones.

For small coops like mine that you can't walk into I found a great tool for picking poop out of shavings .. a pair of clamshell kitchen tongs! We have a big door that opens to the roosting bar area, and It takes just a minute to grab what was left the night before.

Ugh, OK how do I edit my typo? Meant this summer not this dinner lol...

Hi all, wanted to share this super easy way to make a coop window. We did a playhouse to coop conversion this summer and I tried several different types, this was by far the easiest and cheapest. Pics attached, but basically I put trim around the window opening, and covered it with plexiglass...

Thanks, I was afraid that would be the answer. One is a prairie bluebell (araucana x leghorn) and the other a starlight green (prairie bluebell x ?). I'm consoling myself by imagining that maybe if they take breaks they'll have a longer egg laying life span ....

I'm a first time chicken momma. Got 3 chicks this spring, and all 3 started laying about a month and a half ago. Two weeks ago one went broody, a day in the chicken tractor snapped her out of it but she hasn't started laying again yet. Today another went broody! I'm in the pacific northwest so...