chickens

There's a shortage of chicken feed in my area and some one has 6, 50# bags of Ostrich feed for $120. I am considering it since I'm almost out of feed for my laying hens. Will this hurt them??? They do free range a lil bit (2 flocks at separate times) but it's to cut down on flies and...

Mostly decided to join the blog to see about rehoming a couple of roosters. I’d keep them if I could but don’t think it’d be feasible. I had chickens growing up but this is my first flock on my own. We started with 6 and 2 ended up being roosters. I’ll probably stick around for any future...

In honor of the new school year, I thought it would be fun to do picture day for our hens/roosters. all entries must be in portrait form, preferably a picture of their head, rather than their tail. you are required to have a short caption, that includes their name, age, breed (including barnyard...

show me your hens that are over 6 lbs! ps. I've never done a poll before so @moderaters please help me if anything goes wrong!

Does anyone have any success at treating/curing cancer in chickens? I was told mine has it and she has lost all movement in her legs. Has been in a sling for the last few weeks. She seems to keep getting worse and I'm trying to do everything I can to slow/stop it. Have been giving her alkaline...

I'm willing to take any laying hens, any ages(even retired old hens). I love the 5 chickens I have now and would love to get more. I have a large coop that can hold 12+ chickens, so looks quiet empty with only 5 Thank you

I recently got 2 young female rouen ducks along with 1 female pekin. Ever since I’ve got them the rouens bully on the pekin. What could I do? I’ve tried separating the mean ones from the pekin etc. any advice will help! Thanks!!

Hi everyone I own a very small flock (2 turkeys, 4 chickens, some quail and recently newly hatched chicks) I am very new still to owning poultry and theres alot i do not know, but when i initially decided to get them i did alot of researching of what they needed, diseases, common problems, how...

Chilling under the shade cloth roof.

Have tried the usual methods, keeping food stored in metal garbage cans. The use of mint family sprays, even live plants, sometimes that does attract them more, than repel. Use sticky traps, unfortunately a couple small birds got stuck. Poison works somewhat, the good stuff the environmental...

So to start this post it needs to be clear that this is my first time owning chickens, and although i’ve had them for over a year i’m still learning. So i have three hens, and two female ducks who are peas in a pod(?). for the last year that i’ve had my chickens and the last 5 months i’ve had...

I have 15 hens (which is my optimal number) A) 10 pullets | 5 months old B) 3 hens | 1 year and 2 months old C) 2 hens | 2 years and 3 months old So I want to rotate out my old hens by selling them, and buy new chicks every spring. I have been trying to figure out a good schedule…. Which...

My folks and I are in the middle of moving, stuck at an AirBnB, while my dad's boss takes care of my 6 bantams (Silkies and Barbu). Our new house has a shed + attachment that I got to see today, and my babies will be staying in the attachment, which is about 8ft x 8ft, roughly; it might be a...

I have my coop hooked up with lights and timers right now. I have read around a little bit and done some experimenting myself. People say it's best to give the chickens a natural sunset. So, don't have the lights come on in the evening/early night. Is that true? Right now I have the timers to...

Some raccoons got in our coop and we lost three of our four ducks and a chicken. We are all traumatized but we still have one chicken and one duck. The duck is very upset and quacking a lot when I leave her. She also follows the chicken around. Do you think she needs another duck companion...

Hello all you backyard chicken people! My family and I live in the Olympia/Lacey Washington area. We inherited four chickens from a neighbor who liked the idea of raising chickens but soon realized it wasn't for them after all so we adopted them. We never thought we'd raise chickens but we...

Hi all, I have a rat problem that predates my chickens, but has gotten worse since we got them. I've got the grandpa feeder and have rat-proofed the run, but they aren't going anywhere and the traps I've tried (electric, claws, roller bar) have all been failures. I don't want to use poison...

Hey everyone! I am new to the website, but I think I have valuable information regarding ESA letters, chickens and city ordinances. This is not an attempt to circumvent the law by claiming fraudulent use of an ESA animal. I do not condone that in anyway shape or form. I am a disabled veteran...

We're really curious about this but its a bit hard to explain, so our eggs is on day 4-5 ish of incubation, we candled some of them and one of the eggs was really dark at the top (nearly half of the egg was dark) and there was a little bit of movement. Its very different compared to the others...

My family had 3 hens: Flora, Fauna and Merryweather. I named them all and welcomed them into our flock with open arms. They are 17 months old and we believe they are ISA Browns, although we aren't sure as we got them from a school hatching programme. Last night I went to put everyone to bed...