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We have a few neighborhood cats that were interested in our chicks too. Ours 3 girls are now 12 weeks old (they are our first chicks) and there is now only 1 cat that will still come into our yard; yet now she stays to the far back of the yard (looking for the bunny that hides/lives under a...

Hello from NY!!! Welcome to chicken chat!!!

Hi all, I was going to start a thread with this topic but then I found this already started!! I'm a newbie with 3 - 11 week old pullets and I just started to see what seems like a lot more extra feathers in their coop/run. (on the order of 15-20 instead of the normal 3-4.) I wasn't sure if...

Oh no!! I'm thinking of you and your little chickens. I so DREAD having a day like this. Hopefully they decided to take up a nice perch in a tree or some brush for the night (perhaps got scared off by something)? I so hope they are in your yard first thing in the morning pecking around...

Oh no!! I'm thinking of you and your little chickens. I so DREAD having a day like this. Hopefully they decided to take up a nice perch in a tree or some brush for the night (perhaps got scared off by something)? I so hope they are in your yard first thing in the morning pecking around...

Hello, I'm a newbie - so I may not have much to offer, but I asked for females when I bought my chicks, I'm trusting at this point (with no other choice but to) that I have females (11 week old pullets) close in age to yours. Mine do the same little dance - lovingly referred to at our house as...

They're here! They're here! The babies just arrived on Thursday, they are now 5 days old and everyone seems to be healthy, happy, and adjusting their new home just fine. My husband and I are spending a lot of time watching "chick-TV" - sitting and just watching them play. The littlest one...

Quote: I'll have to pay attention the next time I'm down in clinic - I'm not down there too often, I'm on the 2nd floor in the admin offices. I'd love to meet at the coffee cart one day! I'm addicted to that place and it's nice to just get out of the office for a few minutes!! I'm at...

UH-OH! Thanks Rancher Hicks for the advice. So, you say they'll crawl under fending too? Hmmm, I was only worried about them hopping over things. How about chainlink fencing? We have 6' wooden stockade on one side of the yard, and chainlink on the other. This may be an interesting...

Hi all, I have a garden security question. So, for securing the garden from chickens who may decide to help themselves to a salad bar during their supervised ranging time... do you think 2' chicken wire is high enough? (It's nice for us to step over to get to the garden, but I'm thinking...

Great pictures! Thanks for posting them. We'll be starting our coop soon and have been checking out everything to get ideas! I like the upside down fencing idea! ~Amy

OOps- sorry read so many posts - I seem to have mixed up some facts!, That was thetajmahalcoop (Amy W.) that works at Strong, not Sachasmom. Sorry for the mis-managed memory! ~Amy

Hi all, So the garden is in, with my extra tomato plants for the chickens. A lot of work today - but it was a perfect day to get everything in! Getting fencing tomorrow to keep the chickens from using the garden as their own personal salad bar. (Not to mention, being so close to the park...

WOW - Who would have thought a strand of hair could be so dangerous for a chicken! Good to know! Thank you - Hair will be tied back when I work with the chicks! ~Amy

Hello all, I am (very soon will be) new to rasing chickens. I had NO IDEA time could travel so SLOWLY until I ordered my first baby chicks. (1 Barred Plymoth rock, 1 golden laced wyandotte, and 1 rhode island red) 3 more weeks until they come... I can barely stand it. Baby chick supplies...

Hi everyone, I'm in Rochester and very new to the idea of raising back yard chickens (I've been looking into it for some months now and have decided I'm going to give it a try (I'm thinking I may be walking into an addiction?!). I just called for the rules/regs and permit application today...