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Hey guys! My husband got a pretty good job offer in Hebron, Ohio. We're thinking of moving up there from Kentucky. I've been browsing real estate online and I am totally overwhelmed. We have chickens right now and we'd like to have a small farm with maybe a couple of horses and a nice garden...

We're moving out the country and I am so overwhelmed by the fencing and predator proofing options. I don't know what to do! My neighbor, whose field backs up to mine, lets her dogs roam and she warned us they love to kill chickens and get a hold of cats. I have 30 chickens and four ducks. I...

Whenever we move the hoop coops to new grass. I have no idea how often they'll need to be moved.

We're moving to 4 acres in the country over the next couple of weeks! I have about 30 backyard chickens--mostly full sized birds with a few bantams and Silkies mixed in. I have to build new coops because our old ones can't leave my backyard, they won't fit out the gate and they will probably...

Or maybe several of these! http://henhousepoultry.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoid=133636483

If I decide to go with the non-moveable option, how much do you think it would cost to have someone build a run similar to this? Lowes is like the most expensive place ever to buy wood, but I don't know where else to get it. I'm in central Kentucky.

I have tried sand. It was great for a small amount of birds in a small run. I raked it about once a week. Once we moved them to bigger space (one is 7x12 and the other is 10x10) I started using deep straw, and I sprinkle DE on it before putting fresh straw on top about once a month. It has...

I have had the same problem with my birds. We have four ducks and a bunch of chickens. They poop on the back porch and the four ducks alone have somehow killed all the grass in our yard! I would hesitate to pen up the chickens with the ducks together. We have had problems with our Pekin ducks...

I need some ideas! Our current backyard chicken set up includes about 20 full sized birds. (Give or take some random silkies and bantams, and four ducks, that don't go in the main pen...) I have two separate coops, about 4x4 ft. each. They each have a chain link kennel run attached with a...

All of my crates have holes big enough for crickets to squeeze through. They are HUGE crickets though. Like the size of a man's thumb. Freak monster crickets. I might be able to put them in a big tote box and put the lid on. I have a couple with air holes drilled in them, but I've never...

Completely grossed out at the thought of giant crickets eating my chicks. AAAH! What can I do?

This is horrific! Something keeps eating the skin off of the heads of my baby chicks overnight. It's happened to two healthy chicks so far. One yesterday morning, and one this morning. Both chicks had just hatched and were fluffed up and healthy. Everyone else in the nest is fine! My two...

That's exactly what I thought. It mostly sounds like a boy then occasionally makes louder girl noises. Maybe I'll just have to wait a couple weeks. I'm really hoping it's a girl because I have one rude male Pekin and one female Pekin. I don't think I could have two males and a female, and I...

Here are some videos of my duckling. Do you all have any idea if it sounds girlish or boyish yet? I can't tell. Maybe boyish, or it's not old enough to loudly quack yet? Duck Face chattering: Duck Face peeping. I was holding it awkwardly so it would make noise instead of just...

Here's Duck Face yesterday. Isn't he/she pretty?

I'm so happy to find this thread! I found a lone Ancona duckling at the park the day after Easter. No other baby ducks anywhere around the lake we could find. It started following us so we took it home. It's 5-6 weeks old now and starting to get more white body feathers. It's extremely...

You all are giving me hope that they will be ok together once the duckling is grown! I had to put it outside because it was too stinky in the house. It's in a rubbermaid tote under the heat lamp inside the chicken pen. (The chickens have big dog kennel runs.) It's all sad outside and keeps...

Don't worry, I'm waaaay too soft hearted to ever actually let it go back in the wild.