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Maybe I started them to young, but I tried the 12 hr on, 12 hrs off feeding method for my cornish x two days ago. They are about 2 weeks old at this point. I tried taking the food away around 8 PM, thinking that they would mostly sleep at night and not notice it was gone. Well, the constant...

My 9 mo. old Buff Orpingtons are molting, which means I we are getting about 1 egg per week. I was thinking that this might be a good time to worm them since we aren't getting many eggs anyway and would have to throw the eggs out. Is it safe to worm while they are molting or would that stress...

I have two Buff Orpingtons and they are about 9 mo. old. They only laying about 2 eggs per week and there are feathers all over the coop and yard. I think they are molting, but aren't they awfully young for that? I thought the first molt didn't happen until 12-18 mo... What's going on? Will...

I found a pile of what looks like goat poop in our yard today near the coop... it was just a lot of little round balls. But we don't have a goat... Any ideas of other types of animals that leave this type of scat?

I have a hen with swollen wattles who is acting lethargic. My husband swears she was fine when he checked on them around noon today and when I got home at 6:30 she was acting odd. There are no visible signs of trauma and she does not have any nasal discharge. She just stands around with her...

So I am on my 2nd waterer. The first one was the cheap, plastic red and one from TSC. Every couple of days it would spill it's entire contents all over the floor of the chicken coop. So I went back to TSC this weekend and got the more expensive metal waterer. It leaked all over the floor of...

I only have a couple of chickens (hoping to get more soon). What do you do with all the poo? I've got a compost pile, but how do I keep it from getting stinky? Add lime? Any advice would be appreciated!

I'm new to chickens. I have 5 BOs that are a little over a month old. Today I found one laying in a little pit it had dug in the coop in the shavings. At first I was really worried and thought she was sick or injured, but then she started kicking all the shavings up through her wings. Then...

So I just got my first ever set of baby chicks and I am so in love! They are staying at my friend's house in her brooder with the 25 chicks she got (I only got 5). They will be coming home to my place when they are old enough to stay outside (and when my husband gets the coop built). I want...

DH and I really want to get some chickens. Not a lot, just 4-5 to provide eggs and entertainment for our family of four. We have a vacation coming up in April and we thought after that would be the best time start our flock. We want to get full-grown hens because we just don't have time to...