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I had my coop brooder panic doors open all last week. The chicks (11) were 3 1/2 weeks old and were in and out of the brooder all day long. They got the concept of the panic doors real quick and went back in the brooder every night, to sleep under the mama heat pad. I had it turned down to 1 buy...

I built this no waste chick feeder, from the information contained in the thread link below. https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/diy-no-waste-quail-feeder.1232052/ The feeder is free standing and is not top heavy at all. I don't have it fastened to the platform that it sits on. I made an...

I changed out one of my 5 gallon nipple waterers, for this 14 gallon. When I go away for 8 days, the chickens usually have a couple gallons left when I get home. Now I know they will have plenty. I bought the drum new from amazon for $28.74. I took out the seal on the lid so it wasn't air tight...

I finally found an idea that I am happy with for my supports. It's clean looking and fastened at both ends. I made them out of boat bimini parts and 7/8 dowels. If I can go down the lake at 50 MPH and these parts don't break, they should hold up well for this. The dowel slides into the 7/8"...

Here's a 25 sec video, I'm not sure if anyone can tell from this. She's about 9 months old and shows no other symptoms of Marek's, except she's not walking normal, but using her wings to go. Her poop is normal also. I'm thinking it could be a vitamin deficiency also, as she was being picked on...

12 weeks old, it came out of the Americauna bin with two others, when we got them as chicks. The other 2 are definitely EE'S

It's been about 11 years since we have had chickens, we were up to about 25 of a very mixed flock. We relocated and I have been wanting to get chicks again for a couple years and it finally happened. I bought a small coop that I was gonna mod to hold 3 or 4 chickens. Our first purchase was 8...

Hi, I'm Bill from Denver NC, I'm starting up again with chickens. We relocated to NC 11 years ago from PA. I used to house about 25 chickens, a pygmy goat and a couple of babydoll southdown sheep, which we didn't bring with us. I contacted the local authorities and it's no problem having...