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1) How deep do you plan to have pine shavings if you;re using the deep litter method through the winter? 2) What do you do to keep the chickens from kicking tons of pine shavings out of their coop? Do you just have to keep replacing pine shavings all the time? We have a pop door that is left...

My chickens are 13/14 weeks old … BSL and red SL. With the days getting shorter really fast, I'm trying to decide about using an artificial light. Two questions… 1. If I don.t use a light, how likely are my chickens to start laying this fall? Might they be delayed until springtime to start...

I'm totally new to this, but having a great time! I have 10 chickens -- all are supposed to be sex link hens (7 black and 3 red), but there are a couple of the black ones I'm getting curious about! Both are really beautiful with their golden "hoods". Wondering if they are part Australorp...

I'm new to all this. I've been looking at pictures of Black Orpingtons and Australorps. Can someone explain what are the main differences between those two breeds? Pros and cons of each? Physical differences? I'm confused. Thanks!

I'm totally new to chickens -- just got them 2 weeks ago. So in the horrible heat late yesterday afternoon, before dinner time, all 10 of my chickens (6 / 7 weeks) suddenly had a little drop of blood at the top of their beak, bottom of where the comb is developing! Actually it seemed to be a...

I'm 3 days into this new adventure! Picked up 7 black sex links and 3 red sex links on Tuesday. Now I'm wondering if the red sex links are actually full blown New Hampshire reds? They are all 4 or 5 weeks old. The red ones are still getting some of their feathers coming in, but are mostly...