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Thank you! I didn't realize they had molting before their first "big" molting as adults. That makes so much sense now that I think about it, because first it was my three light colored EE's who were losing feathers, and they are a week older than the darker chicks. Now the darker birds are...

So...how much feather loss is normal in a 2-3 month old chicken? I have six and it seems like there are are always feathers on the ground or swirling on the breeze. At first, I was worried that they were pecking each other, that maybe they didn't have enough room. And they were growing out...

Well, I don't know for *sure* because I'm new to this myself, but we have hardwood, laminate, and ceramic flooring and I didn't let our chicks walk on the bare floors until they were 4-5 weeks old. And then I watched carefully to see if they seemed unsteady or "slippy" at all. They're all...

I have a chicken tractor with small "run" space underneath that my chicks are growing out of. We're constructing an 8'x16' run that will attach to the tractor. It was originally only going to be 2 or 3 feet high but I really want to be able to go in, so we've decided to make it 6ft tall on the...

I made removable nest boxes for easy cleaning, but I've had to keep them out altogether because that's where my chicks want to sleep. I tried lowering the sides and then covering them up but they still wanting to sleep on top. Of course, now that they are removed, the chicks STILL sleep in the...

Wow, thanks for the nice comments! For 11 years, until now, we've been a family of vegans! But I've been struggling with post-partum depression and this was a project I chose to help give me something new to focus on and accomplish. Now everybody is on board and we can't wait for our girls to...

It's funny, the colors came about because a TON of paint came with the house when we bought it a few years ago. Gallons and gallons. It's not until we started this project that we decided to pull down the cans and see what we had. We went with the "cutesy" colors, because hey, they're girl...

AKA "chicken tractor". But, but...our cottage is too pink and purple to be called a "tractor" so cottage it is. :D I added our coop to the "coops" page here but everybody else posts pics in this forum so I guess I will too. My little peepers, appropriately named Brown, Yellow, Light Gray...