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The night that Sandy hit us something got in my run/coop. I am guessing a fox cause we have been seeing one around the neighborhood. He got 3 of my girls and one a friend has taken in to try to see if she can nurse her back. The last one my Golden Comet - Ginger is now so afraid and runs at...

I started my life as a chicken owner last year with 6. Unfortunately we lost our white plymouth rock. I still have 5 wonderful hens. My mom who will be 80 next month takes care of them when we go away. She tells me how much fun she has talking to them. Well I talked to DH and he agreed to...

I had six pullets that we got last April. Everything has been wonderful. I left today at 11 and saw them out in their coop and then left for mu sons hockey tourament. We got home about 7 and by them time we unloaded and settled in I went out to check on them. They were in the coop but there...

Well over the weekend we were hit with hurricane Irene. I worried about my hens and pestered my DH with questions about how strong the coop he built was. So Sat morning the rain started. The hens stayed out in their run and when it got a little heavy went under the coop for protection. As the...

My husband remembers when he had chickens as a kid they never ate the first few eggs from the chickens. Has anyone heard this? Was it just his wacky family;)

:DWe got our first egg today!! I will post a pict later when I have time. I am so egg-cited!! Too bad we leave for camping today, my mom will get the next few!!!

So my girls are 22 weeks I have the nesting box in the coop and it doesn't look like it has ever been touched. So I was out cleaning our trailer for our last camping trip before school starts back and I heard them boking louder than I have ever heard before. I looked up toward the coop and...

I have read that some feed their chickens cooked noodles. So my question which I am sorry if it is stupid but I guess we all have to learn one way or another... I have left over penne I was going to give them in the morning. Do I need to chop it up or will they peck at the entire noodle...

My mother just bought a new house on 2.75 ac about a mile away from me. She has a huge over grown kennel in her back yard. When I say over grown I mean you can hardly see the fence. We were thinking of a little pygmy goat or two too clean up the kennel. They would of course be pets but a big...

I have an enclosed coop and run. It's about 8x12 with a raised coop on the end. I clean the coop out and use pine shavings. Well I am sure I am not telling you all anything you don't know that they have eaten all the grass and it is dirt and poo on the ground. I try to rake up the poo as...

I know it can still be a few weeks but I am so excited!! The combs are red and waddles are too. I have their coop in their run which is all closed in. There are wood shavings in the coop and I put 2 baskets in the far corner. The shavings are not too deep I think I would see the egg where...

I have read so many posts on this subject and I think I have a plan now. I do not want to duplicate questions on here but please tell me your thought on my plan. I have 6 girls that will be 18 weeks tomorrow. They have been on grower and some scraps. They are in a run and well the grass is...

I am so excited my 6 girls will be 18 weeks tomorrow and I can't wait for my first ever egg!!!! What do I do to kill the time before they start laying? I have the nesting boxes in as of yesterday. They havn't seemed much interested in them. Thinking about putting a golf ball in them. I...

My girls will be 12 weeks on Sunday. They peep / squeek all the time. If I pick one up they get louder but it is still a squeeking kind of sound. Last week my daughter startled them and I could swear one actually clucked. I thought after that they would all start but no. So when do the...

It has rained so much here my poor chickens feet are getting stuck in the mud. They make a suction sound when they walk as they pull their feet out of the muck in their coop. My yard looks like a mud pie. So tired of rain! I guess it doesn't bother them much they still go out in it.

We put the big bottle with 1 nipple in the run about 11 days ago. No one was interested in it. I tapped it and tried to show them that water came out, they could have cared less. Finally I thought I should really SHOW them how this worked so I picked them up one at a time and tapped their...

First post I hope it works. New to chickens have 6 pullets about 8 weeks old, I have had them for about 6 weeks. Totally in love with chickens now!!