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...that crime never sleeps, even in extreme weather. I don't know what went down in our backyard, but some suspects have been rounded up. Just look at those guilty expressions.

A neighbor had a couple of extra roosters they needed to rehome, so I agreed to take one of them as a replacement for the previous one I had to cull. He's a good looking bird, but she failed to mention that he's a bantam of some kind. No matter, we went ahead and took him anyway. He should at...

When I went outside a few minutes ago my favorite and usually best behaved hen (an EE mutt of some kind) was completely missing from the backyard where my flock free-ranges. She's and one other hen have never gone AWOL before and so they're the only ones who don't have their flight feathers...

We're going to install a wood-and-hog-panel railing with 2 gates around the perimeter of our back porch to keep the free-ranging yard birds off it and our newly-acquired patio furniture (for obvious reasons). We want to install a dog door in one of the gates so that our pooches can let...

No Caribbean spices or anything, the chicken was just a real jerk. A tasty, tasty jerk.

I don't know if this is the correct forum for this, but looking at the names of all the others I couldn't find one that sounded more appropriate, so.... I'm looking to replace the hyper-aggressive rooster that I just recently had to cull and thought I'd reach out for...

My stupid WL rooster finally bought himself a one-way ticket to freezer camp. I was sitting on the edge of the back porch yesterday afternoon having a little quiet time hand-feeding the chickens some BSFL (their favorite treat). Todd (my rooster) wasn't a problem at all when we first got him...

Just over 22 weeks ago I hatched a chick that was the result of a crossing between my WL roo and one of my BO hens. 17 days ago, at exactly 20 weeks of age she laid her first egg. Save for 2 days on which she took a day off she has followed up with an egg every day, for 15 so far. Is this...

My WL/BO cross laid her first little egg this past Saturday at exactly 20 weeks of age, and has continued to lay one each day since (4 eggs in 4 days). Sure, they're small (but steadily getting bigger) at 36, 38, 40 and 43 grams each...you've got to admire her work ethic.

So one of the many things I've noticed about fresh eggs since I started raising chickens is that when you crack them open, the whites seem to not cling nearly as stubbornly to the inside of the shell as the whites in commercially-produced eggs do. With store-bought I generally have to go...

OK, you know the drill. 6½ weeks old. Dad (in the background of the 3rd pic) is a WL. Mom is either a BO or a RIR. I've been referring to it as a "she". Is it time to stop that?

My first hatch, 21 days after mom (a Buff Orpingron) laid the egg, right on schedule. Having a little post-hatch snack, then meeting Dad through the maternity ward glass. Now, if s/he will just figure out how the waterer works...

I went out to the hay barn yesterday afternoon, which is about 50 yds the other side of the backyard fence, and found the fragments of at least 4 white eggs that had been broken open and eaten by something. Guess who lays white eggs but who I thought had stopped laying because I haven't found...

I had a banana that had sit out on the counter a little too long and was overripe, so having read so much about how chickens love bananas (including the peel) I decided to give it to my little flock as a morning treat. I removed half the peel and laid it naked-side-up in their treat dish, and...

I've found a couple of references to Forney here, but nothing that really answers my question, so... My Google-Fu is usually pretty strong, but I've been unable to locate the code of ordinances for the City of Forney, TX. While I'd appreciate any info regarding the legalities of chicken...

Dallas/Ft. Worth Metroplex suburbanite here. I have a fairly large portion of my backyard (well, large by suburban standards at ~1,400 sq ft) that I have sectioned off as a vegetable garden and "other practical stuff" area. I've long contemplated the keeping of a pair of laying hens along a...