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If the crowing isn't enough, a couple of our roosters stand there making this whining squeaky groaning noise for what seems like hours! It's the most irritating sound I ever heard. (probably cause I'm getting older and cranky) Then the hens join in with their louder version because the favorite...

My Daughter (Sour Roses) and I were in Tractor supply getting chicken food and we decided to add some cracked corn as a treat. Looked all up and down the aisle and couldn't find any. Out from the back room comes a sales person so daughter asks him if they have any cracked corn? "Nah, he says...

What do we do with her? Hatched May 28th. She is eating fine and drinking, just not growing! Her siblings are 4 times the size of her. We put the rowdiest ones out in the grow out pen and left her 3 "sisters" to keep her company in the brooder. She always wants to snuggle under them (unless it's...

Our chicks are half grown now and we needed a separate pen for them until they can be with the adults free ranging. Landlord says he has everything needed to make a great pen! he also cut a nice pop door into the shed/coop (which is divided inside) and a neat ramp ( rubber matted even)...

We just bought 4 two year old hens for a separate coop ... how long should we keep them in before they can be let out in the yard and be trusted to go back in at night?

I thought we had a section here where one could read about all the different breeds? Anyways..Hi everyone! It's been awhile since I was here. I just got a bunch of cream legbar chicks and I love them! and the cute little mohawks. what are they like as adults? Photos please?

My 3 year old Speckled Sussex hen apparently missed the bed time call last night as I was surprised to see her hunched down by the coop door this morning before I had let any of them out. I went in and did my usual routine of food in the feeders and water top up and let the rest out thinking the...

Would it be after the chickens? They all free range all day. I have not seen a lone vulture before have you? I live out in a farming area and we have hawks but never seen vultures before and there is nothing dead in my yard for sure! Do they go after live prey? How do I get rid of it? Right now...

Finally one of my speckled sussex hens has gone broody (I think) (first time) she has been in the coop all day and when I went to do the afternoon egg check (mine lay all day long) there she was on the most popular nest all hunkered down. That nest is just a pile of clean straw on the floor of...

And thanks to 3Bird's post and all you helpful lovely people, I knew just what to do. She? was hanging out with the chickens at first helping them eat their morning treat of scratch and then after she got chased off a few times she decided to hang out with me on the back deck. I caught her a...

Just got my order from Cackle today and after a few years break the chook house is full :D We have black silver Wyandotts, Salmon Faverolles and Speckled Sussex! I am thrilled with them all. Cackle put in extras so we have a total of 28..still a little in shock going from 0 to that number :eek...

It's been a while (a few years now) since I have been on this forum and I haven't had chickens for a couple of years...but decided to get a new flock this year. I am looking at Faverole and cream legbar and Jubilee Orphingtons . Nobody around here has those breeds so will be searching for...

I know you shouldn't eat the eggs after worming your chickens....but can they still be used for hatching?

My neighbor had a lone pet hen but he recently moved...she went broody under his porch out of reach and we finally got her out of there today (with her 10 eggs) moved her over here into a spare pen. She is still having a hissy fit if the rooster comes over to the fence (or any of the other free...

I have an adopted peahen that just showed up here 2 months ago and I'm quite surprised at how quickly she has settled in with all the other critters here. She ( Sweetpea) quickly learned by day 2 to hop into the chick growout pen to get her food and quickly realized the dog and 2 barn cats (or...

He started a couple of weeks ago...kinda sneaking up behind me wing flapping and crowing and taking short runs at me..no contact yet but I sure would like how to put him in his place before that happens! any hints please?

Started some eggs in the bator on the 9th and then a week later one of the newly laying hens goes broody! She was sitting on a golf ball so I took it out and gave her a couple of eggs instead which she has been sitting on 3 days now.....the other 2 hens have stopped laying because she is hogging...

Daughter and I have been working on this one for a while and it got shelved for a long while when we moved, summer too hot, non laying hens...well lots of reasons LOL So I was given this cooler a couple of weeks ago and my crazy hens decided to finally lay after I started them on fermented...

I am thinking of buying a 3 week old white chick someone has for sale nearby. I currently have 1 coop and 10 chickens which free range during daylight hours. Is it ok to just have 1 peacock or should I buy 2? can't really afford 2 though :( He wants $60 each ... do I have to scramble and build...

Is that sunshine I see????? yes!! ahhh lets get dry and warm All in heap together