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She was such a sweet girl and so full of personality. We found big pile of feathers scattered about. We found some racoon tracks. The door to their nests was open and four chickens were inside their tractor and five were out. The latch to the door on their nests is really hard to open and...

My WLH's will be 19 weeks on Monday. We got our first egg today. How exciting!

I have 10 WLH "pullets" that are 18 weeks today. The one pictured is the only one with these pointy hackle feathers. Does this make my "pullet" a roo? Thank you in advance for your expertise!

I have 10 White Leghorns, who are so full of personality, and who will be 16 weeks tomorrow, hatchery chicks and first for me in a while, and last night I set up their nests with some straw and put a golf ball in there. All 10 were standing around this nest looking at the golf ball at the same...

The center of this cane grove is cleared out because we have the kids fort in there and as it turns out one of the favorite places for our our WhiteLeghorns to hang out. We've had triple digit heat for 36 days and the next three days the heat index is going to be 110! So I set their mister up...

We are preparing our home for a dog. I was researching how to train dogs not to attack chickens and came across a Q&A from Ceasar Milan. This appears to be sound advice to me but who here has really tried it and how did it go? Here is the transcript: How do I teach my livestock guard dogs to...

I have piece mealed together through some other threads that just prior to laying my girls wattles and combs will more fully develop and turn red. Is this correct and are there any other development signs I should be looking for? I have 10 White Leghorns and they will be 13 weeks on Monday.

Tallie and Cherios (yes, he loves cherios) Rendy and Charlotte

Because these State Statutes are written by lawyers for lawyers tell me if I am reading my State Statute correctly. Oklahoma State Statute (SS) 41 says that if your dog attacks my chickens then you must kill your own dog. If I am reading this correctly, I would consider this effective...

I ordered 15 white leghorn pullets (they sent 16) and they are now 10 weeks old and are all are girls. They have a 90% gaurantee of sexing but they got it right 100% on my order. I will use them again and again.

Have you tried these ventilated nest box pads or something similar that you would recommend? http://www.firststatevetsupply.com/store/product_info.php?cPath=27_81&products_id=258

Thank you in advance!

Yesterday evening I went out to check on my chicks and there was a rat milling around. I got one of my kids to go get my husband and he brought the .22. The rat got into my chicken tractor and my stupid chickens were like "hey, how's it going? how u doin'?" The rat came out on the far side...

Which feathers specifically are the saddle/hackle feathers in this pic and which gender do such feathers grow on? (Picture from forum sticky). Thanks!

My chicks are 5 weeks old so they haven't started laying yet but was made aware that I need a OK Egg License to sell eggs. I googled it and it came back with several forms but they read like they are geared toward very large operations. These forms are written by lawyers for lawyers and...

Would a macrame plant hanger to the appropriate height do the trick or what has worked well? I ask because my chicks keep jumping on it and it's become a glorified toilet. I have it up on bricks at their back height and that helps. Thanks!

This chick is 3 weeks old today. She has been sleeping standing up. Just now I noticed she has what appears to be an enlarged crop on one side of neck and it is hard. The other chicks do not have this. She has been on medicated feed and gave her egg yolks one day. What do you think it...

My cousin and I split this order of white leghorns from Cackle and they will be three weeks old on Monday so I knew from the beginning six would go to her. She has had chickens for a long time so I am not worried about their care. And having 6/10 gone from my brooder will ease the stress of...

Here's a great link for chick e-Tips. If you sign up through the Purina Mills website they send the new e-Tips every week based on the age of your chicks. Enjoy! http://www.feeddealer.com/publications/LOL_PMI/Chick_E-Tips/Chick_E-Tips_Archive.htm

I had to go to meeting for two days and I am calling home, not to ask how my children or husband is doing, but how are the chicks doing?! Really?!