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I am replacing a 30 plus year old carpet and vinyl floor combo. I want green, healthy, and good for another 30 years. Anybodyy using cork and linoleum? Can you share your experience and advice? On a slab in a humid place ...

I live in a very humid climate and have to get rid of moldy organic crumbles periodically. I thought this stuff would be ok in my compost piles (I keep one outside the hen yard and two inside and put stuff I do not want them to eat in the outside one. Maybe once a year I toss the finished...

I raised my chicks in a lightless brooder. I thought it seemed more natural and the ecoglow worked great for 4. I didn't really expect it to have an impact on their behavior, but I think they react more to light than my previous hens.They are almost 12 weeks old and are intensely drawn to any...

I'm putting up a new perch today. My coop is 6x12 and I wanted to put a perch on the long side because that is where they want to be. My original perch was on the back but they keep trying to sleep on the ledge on the long wall, so I figured I'd give them a perch there. However, this way they...

This is my 8 year old hen, Eaglechick. I have her as a hand-me-down after she stopped laying, and I was wondering what she might be:

My yard has a lot of flowering white ginger in it. I generally am trying to get rid of it, so sometimes its in the compost heap where the chickens hang out. My old hens never bothered with it, but my new 9 week old group are eating it. Anybody know if this is ok? they are eating young shoots...

I turned my 8 week old girls out in the pretty green run this morning. Where I would have been enjoying the sunshine and the green grass, they zeroed in on the slugs, spiders, etc. that were under the tarp of the old chicken tractor that is in the run too....They also helped remove bugs from the...

Thank you everyone! This forum has been a huge help for me as I move from having the occasional rescued chicken living with me, to adding baby chicks on purpose (!) and designing a hen house that my son built for me. I’ve been lurking and learning, but I am pleased to join such a special group...

My 6 and a half week old chicks have been going out to their run in the daytime and being brought in to the brooder pen at night. This meant a trip in the carrier. Now they are ready to stay out, but they wait peeping plaintively at dusk in the most uncomfortable corner, expecting me to load...