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I finally took some pictures of my addition to my existing chicken house. It has made things so much easier for me. First pic has the full view and you can see part of the run that extends out. The girls have access 24/7 to it. Second one is the older hen's side. You can see the slide door...

I have had chickens for around 30 years. I have 50 older hens and 50 new pullets that will start laying hopefully in a few weeks. My 50 older girls are a mixed breed but my new girls are Australorps To make things easy on me my husband and sons built me a big chicken house, it is huge from what...

Would dried on mud contribute to bumble foot? It has rained a lot here and not having a covered run, it has been pure mud. Now that it has dried up a little, I noted the hens had dried mud on their feet and started to catch them to get it off between their toes, etc. I have several that have...

Just wondering what everyones thoughts on introducing new chick(ens) to my flock of 31 red stars and 2 black stars. I want to replace 10 of them that were killed by the mink. I want to get 10 black stars to go with the other 2 that I have so they can hang out. Would it be better to get newly...

I have Red Stars. 2 of the hens are a black breed, (Some that they send you for free with each order) After my mink attack I noted one of the black hens had a wound, so I had to isolate her from the rest of the flock because of her injury. The one black hen left in with the red stars has...

When I was at work during the day, something came in and killed 10 of my 43 chickens. I have a welded wire run with hardware cloth on the bottom half and welded wire on the top of the run for hawks, etc.. I was just sick. The girls were giving me up to 3 dozen eggs a day. I got a small live...

24 X 16 Chicken house Concrete floor with insulation under it, bottom drain and a place to sit a automatic waterer

I have a 3 week old chic which all of a sudden has developed a popeye. Her eye is opaque. I have been putting antibiotic ointment in it for 2 days - 3 times a day and have on hand penecillin (long acting) or tylan. They are on the medicated chick starter. This is one of 40 red star laying...