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I keep reading threads about aggressive roosters, and I just thought I'd share my experience with them. We've had chickens for about 15 years now, and I have had somewhere around five or six different roosters. They all were protective of the hens, so I never had any complaints with their job...

Normally, when purchasing chicks from Tractor Supply, I isolate them away from the flock until they are big enough to defend themselves, however, THIS scenario is new to me. A friend bought an incubator and wanted some fertilized eggs to learn with. I gave her a dozen and to my surprise, she had...

Question: We have 10 hens and only 3 of them are laying. I suspect the person who sold them to me knew they were approaching their "end of egg laying" stage, but told me they were young and just now entering their egg laying stage. How can I tell which three are still laying? I want to either...

Our hen that we thought was snatched by a hawk about 4-6 weeks ago returned yesterday with 7 chicks. We are happy, shocked, overwhelmed, and TOTALLY unprepared. So many questions! We have her and the chicks isolated from the rest of the flock in a 2' x 4' wooden box, until I can build something...

I started with one broody hen about four weeks ago, and one by one, another one would join her. Now, all three nesting boxes are occupied with TWO hens in one of them. My egg production has dropped from 8-9 per day (I have 10 layers) to 3-4 per day. I'm over it! How can I stop end the strike...

We're not new to raising chickens (we had 12 mature layers when we lived in Florida), but we are now in North Georgia and this is a new group of girls. We purchased them from a chicken farmer who told us the girls were about 12 weeks old and would be laying any day. Well, that was 3 months ago...

Hi, I'm hoping to learn about raising chickens in North Georgia. I raised a flock down in Florida, but the weather was much nicer in the winter than it is here, so I'm hoping to learn how tolerant chickens are to the cold. Looking forward to exchanging ideas!