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On Saturday we had a rare October snow on the eastcoast. It was wet and heavy and clung to every surface including the poultry wire roof on my chicken yard. It was so heavy it started causing my concreted 4 X 4 posts to lean inward. It caused the pen gate to go so crooked that I had to unscrew...

My ten chickens are 5 months old this week. This evening when I went out to get them ready for bed, I found my first egg on the concrete floor of the chicken house. It is small, perfect shaped, and has a hard shell. Do they usually start out laying eggs in places other than their nesting...

I have read several times on this forum that people place "curtains" in front of the nesting box holes. Do the curtains completely cover over the entry? I understand that the hens like privacy but aren't they scared to go in under the curtain and don't curtains make the nesting box hotter? Do...

My ten chickens (supposed to be hens) are now 18 weeks old. This morning one of the sex-links squatted for me. I read on this forum that squatting is a sign that eggs will be coming soon. I have been feeding them medicated feed (amprolium) since they were hatched and still have 3/4 of a 50#...

I was just sitting in my fenced-in chicken yard with a chicken on my lap when ten chicken heads all turned and watched a 6-foot long black rat snake slither through a hole in the fence and immediately out a hole on the other side. The chickens all went over to watch where it had gone out the...

Out of ten 14-week-old youngsters there is one that seems to be having trouble seeing. I didn't pay much attention to the first instance. I have an automatic door which I can see from my pantry window. One early morning I noticed that all the chickens had left the chicken house except one...

I want to cut holes in the side of the chicken house and attach the boxes to the outside. I could do three but it would be more complicated because of stuff outside where the third one would be. From everything I have read, they usually all lay eggs in the same box anyway so would there be any...

I was given Harvest Moon Animal Parade for Christmas. I spent so much time feeding fake chickens that I figured I might as well get some real-life chickens. At least they would produce eggs. I have not played Animal Parade since my day-old chicks were delivered on April 27. The real thing is...

I am looking at the Pullet-Shut Automatic Poultry Door. Both the door and the frame are made of aluminum which I believe is better than wood. It opens outward like a house door. Is this product reliable? Is it worth the money? Could a woman (me) of average mechanical skills (me) install it...

It is 8 weeks old.

They are eight weeks old. They both have pretty white legs. One of them is always the first to come see what's happening. Hoping it's not a rooster. Are they still too young to know what gender they are?

My chicks are seven weeks old. They have NOT been in their chicken yard because it's not quite secure just yet. I'm hoping to have it safe by this weekend. While I have been working on the fencing, the grass has grown tall and has fallen over. Should I mow it before I let them into their...

My chicks might be too young yet to say Rooster or Hen or the pictures might not be good enough, but I would appreciate hearing what you think. They are supposed to be hens but a friend keeps telling me "that one's a rooster." They were hatched on April 26, 2011. Thanks.

I am renovating my old smokehouse into a hen house. It has a concrete floor. We have black rat snakes in this area that climb trees and eat bird eggs and baby birds from the nests and I'm sure they could find their way into my smokehouse. At what age/size would a chick be safe from being eaten...

I just received my first batch of ten chicks on Wednesday. So far they are doing well. I have had four tubs of composting worms for several years. They are fed shredded newspapers and mostly anything that you'd put into a salad. Would it be ok to give the chicks a few of these worms?

Is there a good website with photos of baby chicks? (one that would help in identifying breeds of day-old and/or very young chicks)

My first batch of chicks will be shipped this Monday, April 25 and I am very excited. I have been reading everything I can find and this forum has been a big help. I am supposed to receive a mix of ten hatchery-choice PULLETS. They could be Buff Orphingtons, Rhode Island Reds, Silver Laced...