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We’d really like to get some different colored eggs and chickens to incubate this spring to add to our aging Buff Orpington and Easter Egger flock of 9 hens. We are only getting 2-3 eggs/day this summer as the hens are not only getting older (most 3 yo only 3 are 1 yo) and hot! What would be the...

I heard the Canadian wildfire smoke had drifted into NY and VA over last weekend making air quality poor. Probably what has happened to you. Not sure anything can be done however.

The Over E-Z Coop is a very heavy duty and predator safe coop, comes in 2 sizes - well made by the Amish. We love ours and I’d highly recommend.

I keep an old toothbrush to run over the inside and outside of the nipples when I change the water. Never had a problem-love this style waterer.

Our Buff Orpingtons (4 hens 1 rooster) were raised by us from the egg. We love them and they are great egg layers. But our "first born" started out with a quarter sized bare spot below her vent and now in a matter of weeks, it is the size of her whole butt! I am horrified! They are on grower...

Your article was very informative, but I'm still not sure that's the problem we have. Our Buff Orpingtons (4 hens 1 rooster) were raised by us from the egg. We love them and they are great egg layers. But our "first born" started out with a quarter sized bare spot below her vent and now in a...

Love the painted tires!

Hi - I'm new to chickens and I have a dumb question! Is a white legging chicken the same as a white leghorn? Looking to get hens to add to our buff orpington flock, and was not sure. Thanks!

I just can't get over how beautiful they are! Might have to check out adding to my buff flock! Thank you!

Can you get silver laced English orps here in the U.S.? Do they have to be imported?

We use a shishkabob skewer and also put melon slices and apples on it - skewer it into the ground.

What kind is she?

They are beautiful! We have Buffs and now that they are mature - 26 weeks - we can't hardly tell them apart, although they all have/had names when they were little and each looked more different. Do you put colored bands on yours - I didn't see any?