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I usually give our flock of four chickens produce scraps from our kitchen. I’m currently chopping collard greens to get a head start on Christmas dinner, and have been tediously trying to chop the stems into tiny pieces and I’m wondering if this is overkill. My question is, is there a certain...

Hello. I trimmed sugar snap peas for dinner last night and after blanching in salted water, they were still really stringy and inedible (even though I spent 15 minutes removing stringy parts 🙄). Can I chop them up and give them to my chickens if they were cooked and shocked in salted water? I...

After realizing that getting a $500 coop from Wayfair might not be the best for my small flock, I spent that on lumber and built Ana White’s Small Modern Chicken Coop. I doubled the width so that my 4 chickens would have plenty of space and used hardware cloth that was extended into a skirt that...

Big thank you to @MysteryChicken for helping me ID my amberlink pullet (who was originally sold to me as an Austrolorpe pullet). Figured I should confirm the other three, now that they are looking more like hens than chicks! Can you guys help out a n00b? TIA! Just for reference, Tractor Supply...

Hello! I posted pics of my chicks a while ago. There was one, my white one, that got some mixed answers…even on gender. Now that she’s (he’s?) bigger, I wanted to check back in. It’s also starting to get a bit of brown on parts of its feathers. This new coloration just appeared within the last...

Hello. I got four chicks about three weeks ago. I think they were probably close to about a week old or slightly younger. I got them from Tractor Supply. I kind of scrambled to select them because I had my baby with me and was in a bit of a rush. I got an extremely cute little yellow one is...

Hello! Discovered BYC when I was looking for coop plans. I was going to try to build a coop and started pricing out lumber for a Wichita, then realized it might be a bit too much for me and decided to get an Eglu up next month. Just got most of the things I need for a brooder. I’m gonna try to...