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Hello! I've got two hens that are happy and healthy, but due to the cold weather and despite the fact that I've got the coop well covered, they've taken to sleeping (and pooping, ugh) in their laying boxes instead of roosting. Naturally I don't want to eat their eggs when I go to collect them...

Hello everyone! We've been getting some pretty brutal heat in Austin this summer as usual. I've got a small sprinkler that I turn on low for a little while each afternoon so that my hens can enjoy some flowing water and peck around in the mud puddle. With the extra heat, however, I've been...

Hi- I noticed twice this week that some of my eggs (I have three layers) had splotches of orange-y stuff on the outside. It was slightly sticky- the shavings stuck to it. I know that sometimes you'll get a little poop on the eggs, but this is something I've never seen before. Does this sound...

I have a quick fix question. I live in Austin and we're about to get a big cold snap tomorrow, just for a night. I think it might get down to 36 at the lowest. I know this is above freezing, but is there anything special I should do? I wasn't expecting this, and being such short notice at all, I...

Hello everybody- My RIR hasn't laid eggs in a couple of days (she's usually pretty regular), and this morning I went out to find that she'd laid a sort of squishy, soft egg. It seems like the shell wasn't fully developed or something of the sort. What's more, she laid it obviously while she was...

Hi- As I've said in previous posts, I recently bought one full grown RIR and two chicks. As a newbie to raising chickens, the process of buying them was a little overwhelming and, embarrassingly enough, I forgot what breeds the two chicks I bought were. The guy I bought them from told me that...

Hi- My RIR laid her first eggs a couple of weeks ago, and they've been delicious— she's laid one pretty much every day, except for two days off, I think. It's some people's opinion that you can just keep eggs in a container on the counter... that's what I've been doing. Someone once told me...

So as I mentioned the other day, I decided to take the light off of my brooder box with two 5+week old chicks in it. They really liked it, and after several (some successful) attempts to jump out of the box over the next couple of days, I decided to get brave and put them out in the coop last...

Hi- So I've got two chicks that are five weeks old tomorrow, give or take a day. They're pretty much fully feathered and are getting pretty big; I plan to put them out in my coop in a couple more weeks. In the meantime though, I was wondering– do I even need the brooder light anymore? I've...

Hi- I have two chicks that are about four weeks old. They're nearly fully feathered and are getting big - I'm going to put them out in the coop soon, but probably not for a couple more weeks. That said, when should I switch them over to regular feed? I'm feeding them Manna Pro chick crumbles...

Hi- I just got my first coop and have a full grown Rhode Island Red, plus two chicks that I'm brooding inside and will put out in the coop pretty soon. I just noticed that there's a wasp who's decided to start building a nest in the upper rafters of my coop. That's naturally going to be a bit...