advice needed

I have another post about transitioning them into the coop but I just wanted to make sure my babies are old enough to go outside. Planning for this Saturday. Local weather will be high 60's in the days and low 40's at nights (with some occasional rain). What do you think? I want to avoid putting...

Hello! My chicks(5 of em) are getting ready to head into the backyard coop. However, we have an older flock (3 hens) in the backyard already. I've read a lot about how to introduce them on other posts on here. However, we are also purchasing a new, bigger coop. We are planning to keep the...

Hi all. We have 9 backyard chickens and 2 ducks (well, this morning we had 3 ducks...) :-( Sad to say that although it doesn't happen often, we lose a bird to a predator. Today it appears to be a hawk or owl. We have two options for keeping the birds: coop and run only or selective free...

hi all I just went to put some of my ducks indoors for the night and discovered one of them dead and I have no idea what happened. Hoping someone is online now who can give me any thoughts on what it might be or what I can do in the morning to try and work out if it was anything contagious And...

As of a week ago, I got my first incubator and I've had eggs in it from day 1! I've read a lot on here and on other websites but I keep hearing from others in my family/friends that I'm not doing it right. Some info on my incubator: I got it from the farmers market in my town, it's a Little...

Hello everyone. My husband and I are new to having chickens. We could really use some advice right now. We've had our chicken for a few months now. Everything has been going really good even though we've never had chickens before. Unfortunately, the other night she was attacked by a cat, because...

Right I have sort of new to owning Pekin bantams. I rescused a lavender bantam she was roughly around 6 months when I rescued her she was laying eggs then stopped in the October and started to moult then stopped moulting then started again in November for a few days then stopped then has just...

I just raked my yard and i have alot of leaves in trash bags. Ive heard that you can use leaves for the deep litter method? Can anyone tell me all that they know about it?

Hi there! You lovely chicken people are going to be sick of all of my questions this past few days, but I think that I have managed to learn a crazy amount in this past weekends about incubating/raising chicks that I ever thought possible! So, Saturday morning we had a chick hatch who had a...

We are new to chickens after buying a home and taking over the care for them! We love them, and unfortunately after months of allowing them to free range, only one of our two returned home today. Knowing chickens are best in pairs and flock animals, we would definitely like to get more soon. On...

I went out last night to check on my broody and oh dear, she got off her nest and took already hatched babies to a different location. I found one baby with the yolk sack still attached, cold almost dead and another pipped egg cold almost dead. I got them straight into the incubator and looked...

Hi, i have a drake and two ducks i recently separated them from my chooks because i found out they won't breed with chickens around... but its been a month or two and they started nesting but i think they aren't fertile because i candled them and can't find any veins or blood vessels but they...

Hi, I've just started breeding ducks and i have one male and two females, they started nesting about 3 weeks ago and one of my females leaves the nest all the time and I'm afraid they're getting cold, because her eggs have all gone black and she started with about 15 eggs and only has 3 left. I...

Hey y'all I once again need advice on what to do. Okay so one of my lil buff orpington cocks has a very swollen ear with a big disgusting tick hanging off it, I spent the last hour trying to get the tick of with rubbing alcohol but it's not really working. I was thinking about trying to get it...

Looking for somebody with beekeeping experience. I've been considering keeping bees and I just moved to a new home that backs up to a marsh (however, it is in a neighborhood), so it seems like a good opportunity to get started. - I've been told/read that you do not need a lot of land to keep...

I don't think this is an emergency, I am not sure what it is. Okay, so on and off one of my 6 month old easter egger hens has been showing weird behavior. She stops suddenly and reels her head back, often stepping backwards into things. It looks like she's trying to swallow? My mom and I have...

Hello! I’m looking for some advice as I’m getting three silkie chicks and I want to make sure that their coop and run is as fox proof as possible. I have attached a picture of the run that I’ve bought and also of the chicks that will soon be coming to their new home ☺️ I will be purchasing run...

I recently (Yesterday) gave my chickens away. 3 out of my 9 chickens got sick with fowl pox. It went away normally no chicken died. I have a cocktail and a dove in a cade in my backyard. In my backyard was where the chickens stayed. And I don't handle my Cocktail or dove at all (they're not tame...

Hi, my family are new chicken owners. We have 2 white Sussex hens. Recently we came back from holiday and found one of the hens incredibly ill. Whilst we were away we left her with relatives (I regret this greatly now!) And I think they told us that the hens coop would leak and get wet during...

New to the forum, have been enjoying the useful information as an outsider for a little over a month, got out girls four weeks tomorrow. We have three hens, all were doing well until yesterday, and would really appreciate some suggestions of where to start. Our amber star is lethargic to the...