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We have not had a chance to insulate our coop yet or to close off the extra ventilation from summer and I am a bit worried the coop is too cold/ drafty for the cold weather tonight. I am just wondering if there are signs that adult hens are too cold? They are all on their roosts with their...

Our neighbors have an apple tree in their back yard which hangs over the fence into our yard. Today I heard the chickens sounding an alarm so I ran out to see a raccoon in the neighbors yard, right next to our fence, eating the fallen apples. I ran up to it to try to scare it away, even though...

When we first moved our girls outside they would pile on top of each other in their nest boxes to sleep at night. We let them do this because we figured they were not used to being outside yet and were trying to keep warmer. When they got older we closed off their nest boxes and they started...

We have 2 white leghorns and 3 red sex links. One white leghorn is not laying yet, but all the others are, they started about 2 weeks ago. The white leghorn laid our first egg and all 3 red sex links started within a few days of that. We get 2-3 brown eggs every day and some have gotten quite...

Our chickens have only been laying for a couple of weeks and their eggs are still kind of small. I have only made hard boiled eggs with large, store bought eggs before. Does anyone know how long small eggs should be cooked for? I usually do the cold water method where you place the eggs in...

One of our white leghorns laid her first egg 3 days ago in the nest box. We were excited because she laid it in the afternoon while she was out free-ranging in the yard so she must have come back to the coop to lay in the nest box. Yesterday one of our red sex-links laid her first egg and it...

With all the rain we have been having lately a lot of wild mushrooms have popped up in the yard. I have read some similar posts where people say that chickens won't continue to eat something that is bad for them so most people don't worry about wild mushrooms. The mushrooms look pecked to...

Well it turns out we are in violation of a village ordinance that can't be found online preventing poultry within the village limits. The village is really tiny (1.7 square miles) and surrounded by farms, we often get cow manure smell when the wind is right. We are right on the village line...

We got our chickens a few months ago after doing research into whether we could legally own them. The zoning laws for the town say that agricultural use is permitted for all districts. Poultry is listed under agricultural use. We got 6 chickens and one ended up being a rooster. He got pretty...

We eat a lot of onions, garlic, and citrus which I have read are harmful to chickens so I am concerned about them getting into this stuff in the compost pile. I am wondering if it would be a good idea to put a fence around it and over the top to prevent them from getting into it. We are also...

We got 6 chicks, all supposedly pullets, from Tractor Supply Company and they are now about 6-7 weeks old. We got three red sex links and three white leghorns for some variety, but we didn't do our research about the accuracy of vent sexing or we would have gotten all red sex links. Now we're...

Our chickens are about 6-7 weeks old now and we started leaving them outside overnight on Monday with a heat lamp in the coop at night. The weather was bad yesterday- very windy and rainy- so they went back inside the coop during bad parts of the day to get out of the weather. Today is nice...

We got our 6 chicks about a month ago and I've been on this forum constantly learning everything we need to know. The site is great, I absolutely love it, it has been incredibly helpful and we would have been lost without it! I finally decided to join, but I think I'm addicted already