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Help! Just lost 2 hens to Mareck's. They were new birds I was adding to my flock and still fquarantines, but were in a separate pen just outside the fence from my healthy 6 hens. Any suggestions from anyone on how I can disinfect the ground where the infected birds were? Thank you!!

Hello, I need some advice from those experienced with Wyandottes. I have been offered two 5 month old Golden Laced Wyandotte pullets. I have a very small backyard flock of 5 birds already, all about 2-3 yrs old. I have one Rhode Island Red, one Ameraucana and three barred plymouth rocks. All...

I have had three hens for about a year now, one RIR, one BPR and a buff PR. The RIR and the BPR are great layers, but the Buff PR is broody about every 6 weeks. We have an urban homestead and are only allowed hens and want the eggs. I have tried various methods of curing her of it including...

The aggressive one is a 6 wk old RI Red. Nice when she is by herself, but pecks to bleeding all the others (who are 2 weeks younger) when they are all together. I now have them all in one 4ft square enclosure with a mesh divider down the middle. The other 3 pullets ( another RI Red, a barred...

Hello! My daughter and I are starting to research raising chickens. We are just getting started and wanted to know who is in the chicken raising community in El Cerrito CA? We are also wondering what people do when they go out of town? Are backyard chickens ok on their own for 1-2 weeks...