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Hey Michiganders. Winter is 10 degrees away up here in Petoskey. I went in the coop tonight and it was really cool and damp. I have 6 windows open right now. Should I leave the windows open an toughen them up for the winter or close the windows? As I've said elsewhere on the forum I don't live...

The girls are still young and I'm grateful for every egg I get at this point. We had pretty severe thunder, lightning, wind, and rain for the last 2 nights and the production went from 5-6 decent sized eggs down to 3 small ones. I was wondering if bad weather affects the laying cycle or is this...

I am new to this. I bought 12 Amberlinks at TSC. They were supposed to be 90% chance of being female. I feather sexed them at about a week and thought I had 1 rooster. Now I have 6 that look like this. Is this a rooster?

I am still a newbie here so please bear with me. I have read that 10 sq. ft. per bird is a minimum for run space. My original plan for the run was going to be 8x16 which would have been adequate for my 18 birds. My coop is elevated 18" off of the ground and is 8x12 do I include the space under...

It might come back and bite me in the rear end but my blue print is only in my head, I haven't written anything down yet. Here are some pictures from the last 3 days.

I don't know if this has been discussed elsewhere on the forums but this bears repeating. I came home tonight to find 2 chicks inside the feeder not moving. My heart sank, I know I will probably lose a chick or two but I wasn't ready for it especially if it was my fault. It turned out the were...

Hi, new to the posting part of the forum. I've been reading everything I can about raising backyard chickens on this site and figured it was time to chime in. I recently purchased 18 chicks of various breeds, a bunch of yellow ones, a couple white ones, a couple black ones, and a couple multi...