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I've been raising chickens for nearly 8 years now and for the first time have a feather picker. This past weekend I picked up 4 POL pullets to add to my flock (currently in quarantine) and noticed one is a definite feather picker. I know they'd outgrown the space they had available at their...

I just acquired a pair of Call ducks yesterday, hatched 1 June this year. I've had ducks before but they were standard/large birds and I had 6. They shared a space with a few hens and they did well but I won't be keeping the new pair with my current flock of chickens. I'm wondering what kind...

Having kept a small flock of chickens for 7 years, I've experienced the integration process numerous times and have found the smoothest, most successful integrations to be with a flock of well established mature hens and 3-4 week old chicks (weather permitting). I like the slow-and-steady...

This rooster has very recently found himself a new home with me after surviving a predator attack that took him from his previous home. His owners did track me down and came to take him home a few days ago but when they arrived to collect him, to my delight, decided he could stay here. They...

Last week, whilst on the phone with a friend who keeps a small flock of laying hens, she had a moment of confusion when she heard one of her girls crowing. I assured her that it's not unheard of for a hen in a flock without a rooster to adopt the traits of one, such as crowing or growing spurs. ...

I have a small free-ranging flock with seven birds of mixed ages and breeds. My two eldest are about 4 years old, followed by three 8 month old pullets and finally two 5 month olds - 1 pullet and 1 cockerel. The youngest two hatched via incubator in my son's kindergarten class this past June...

So, I'm not new to chickens but it's been a few years since I've had pullets. I knew nothing of BYC when I began this adventure and my resources for information were rather limited at the time. When I got my first flock, I also got ducklings and they (ducks) were laying first. I was so excited...

I brought a solitary egg into my son's kindergarten class to hatch out in an incubator a few months ago. The egg I brought in was an Easter Egger but I honestly didn't expect it to hatch. Much to my surprise I'm now a very proud keeper of a beautiful EE roo. Another chicken enthusiast brought...

I've been keeping hens for several years now and started with 4 two week old pullets. By the time they were 1 1/2 years old I was down to a solitary hen due to a fox, so a neighbor gave me a wonderful roo and I acquired 2 more hens that were the same age as my hen. A predator made off with my...

I began raising hens a few years ago; my starter flock consisted of four americanas but only two outwitted the fox long enough to reach laying age and I was just so thrilled to have them that I didn't pay much attention to the ages they started laying. What I did notice is one was laying for...