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So...how much feather loss is normal in a 2-3 month old chicken? I have six and it seems like there are are always feathers on the ground or swirling on the breeze. At first, I was worried that they were pecking each other, that maybe they didn't have enough room. And they were growing out...

I have a chicken tractor with small "run" space underneath that my chicks are growing out of. We're constructing an 8'x16' run that will attach to the tractor. It was originally only going to be 2 or 3 feet high but I really want to be able to go in, so we've decided to make it 6ft tall on the...

AKA "chicken tractor". But, but...our cottage is too pink and purple to be called a "tractor" so cottage it is. :D I added our coop to the "coops" page here but everybody else posts pics in this forum so I guess I will too. My little peepers, appropriately named Brown, Yellow, Light Gray...

I bought a red light today at Orscheln (their Country Tuff brand) and I didn't notice the "splatterproof" on the box until I went to check them one more time before going to bed. The box was still on the counter and there it was: "SPLATTERPROOF! Hardened Pyrex R glass designed not to shatter...

(Sorry for all the newbie posts, by the way.) Okay, I posted last night worrying about a chick that had just a tiny smear of poo debris on his rump feathers, but I cleaned it off and all is well. It wasn't anything like pasty butt, thank goodness. But today when I went to Orscheln to get 2...

When I got my chickies on Saturday I just got the starter feed that they had at Orscheln. There was one kind, it was medicated, and it is soy based. But a chick's gotta eat so I got it. Now, I know enough to know that I don't want to feed them soy based anything. Not sure where I fall on...

First post, first little flock of 4 EE pullets from Orscheln. 3 are about 2 weeks old, and the 4th is 1 week. The little one is having normal-looking poops but has a little poop-debris on her rear end. Just a bit of smearing that has stuck to some of her down around the vent, but not on or...