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Hi everyone. My family is moving to a new property but it doesn't have a chicken coop. I have been trying to design a chicken coop to build. My plan is this a structure that is 20 x 15 house that is divided in the middle. one side will become the main coop for the flock, the other will be...

Hi everyone, well today is my birthday and I woke up thinking today would be absolutely wonderful, go out to look at the birds, ducklings with mamma fine and all accounted for, baby chicks are fine but need food. I go to get them food and find my quail pen has a door open(it could have been left...

Does anyone know of a source of De Watermael bantams in the USA? these birds are basically d'anvers but with crests and i really want to find a source. thanks for your help any who respond

I am soon to get quail and I have already built the frame of the cage. its a stacked cage made from 2x4s and hardware cloth. I have 1 community pen and 4-6 breeder cages! I am soo excited but am slightly unsure of were to get the quail hatching eggs, my possibilities are from southwest game bird...

I have a chick that i hatched with an unabsorbed yolk sac, or at least there is a gooey, bloody mass attached to its navel. I did not assist, it hatched on day 21. It seems to be fine but i don't know. what should I do? the incubator looks gross and i am worried it might get infected but i am...

A friend of mine came up with the idea of having a flock of feral chickens. which breeds would be the most likely to go feral and how would you get them to do that. Could they survive on their own? what would be the ideal place to establish one? any thoughts, suggestions, commments?

This thread is where you can post stories of whatever chickens have made you do. (well what you wanted to do but they seemed to make you or had to do for them) For me these four Cream Legbar chicks at a feed store in Olympia made me buy them (well chicken math did but whatever). Then they made...

Fist of all this is the coloration in chickens. I now d'anvers have this coloration but what are the genes that make this coloration? This is what i am really curious about because this is the only breed i have seen with this coloration.

anyone here own this breed? what are they like? I am looking to get this breed, anyone here know of a breeder?

so i have one of these and am wondering if it actually works? i have done a trial run but it didn't seem to turn the eggs 3 times a day

I am starting a thread about my chicken flock. This will include my plans, breeding, stories and other things to do with my flock. If you have any suggestions on any of the topics feel free to post! :D My current plans are build my chickens a new roost and the get some Red Dorkings so i can have...

So I have a bantam rooster who is the best flyer i have ever seen. He can literally fly over houses and can looks kinda like a miniature pheasant when he flys. what is the best flyer in your flock and what breed? Mine is a cross between a dutch bantam rooster and a D'anver. He is near impossible...

Any one now of a Dorking breeder in the Pacific Northwest, preferably a breeder of red Dorkings. I cant find anyone

Do araucana chickens have the fast feathering gene or do they feather out slow? Also how good of foragers are they?

Breed suggestions for chickens that don't fly and are good egg layers for chicks this year? Please help

so if you breed 2 autosexing breeds together will the babies be autosexing. for example the smaaland crossed with the cream legbar and how do you create an autosexing chicken

1. Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? I am not new to chickens and have had them for about 9 years. 2. How many chickens do you have right now? About 12, one rooster and 10 hens as well as 2 ducks and 5 geese. 3. What breeds do you have? brahmas, barred rocks, crosses...