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I'm really sorry. I lost 3 babies early on and I cried so hard. These are pets. A lot of ppl just don't get it.

Mike Adams just explained the map he showed and he THOUGHT those were actual temps, but now he says that after some people posted back to him, that those are the relative temps. Like instead of -17°, it just means that it will be 17 below the NORMAL! WHEW!!!! Still, it's gonna be colder than...

My husband said it'll gradually get into the 20s but then we could get one night that drops below zero. He saw that map and said it has to be fake or false info.

They showed negative. Hope they come up over the next 8 days! We can deal with 20°...possibly even 5° for a little bit. But not that!

The European models are showing that North Central Texas COULD drop to -17° in the next 8 days...suddenly. Going 50+° to the negatives can't be good. I'm not sure how to make SURE everybody survives this drop. This is sounding like the 2021 Snowmaggeddon but we didn't have chickens then.

My RIR boy is 10 months old and for the first time, today, he has some really white spots on his tail feathers! I came here to find out what it is but not finding anything definitive. Somebody, please help! We have 8 girls, the same age, and they don't have that.

Good read. Fortunately, we're on a hill so with the tarp over ours, our babies were high and dry with the deluge all Tuesday, Wednesday and all night last night! I had to go out and clean their waterer and got caught in the downpour, so I actually took shelter in their run until it slacked off...

Oh! Yes. Sorry...they are just over 7 mos. Everybody's laying and they are healthy and happy. But the eclipse, yesterday made half of them not lay. Then, today, one of my BRs sat on a wooden egg for a few hours and I didn't know if she was feeling broody or was egg bound or if that eclipse...

Sweet! Thank you! I'm a worrier and these are our first flock. Puts my mind at ease. REALLY, THANK YOU. ☺️

I've read a bunch of posts on temps for coops. We're in North Central Texas and weather swings are vicious on us, but I think the babies will be fine. But wanna be sure. It's dry out, we have sand right now and will be adding dry leaves as winter approaches. The hatched on March 1st and I...

Good plan! Ours lost about a half inch, maybe an inch in height by trenching the bottom rails in the ground, but the birds don't mind and I'm mostly the one who goes inside for any length of time and I'm only 5'5". Lol. Our main run is the same size as yours, the little one is 10'X10', I...

2' outside and 1' inside the run, on the ground and the whole coop floor + 2' outside. And hardware cloth goes up from the ground is 2' up. The roof is chicken wire but now there's a tarp over the entire thing since the pics. No extra struts. The tarp keeps them hidden from the birds of prey...

LOVE THIS! I'm new to all of this and I raised my first flock from hatchlings. I am looking forward to having a broody baby of my own so she can raise some new babies. Not sure if I would put her in the "chicken hospital" that they were all in when they were still babies, or if I will let...

Yeah, we had them inside for a few weeks when they first hatched and brought them home, but MAN! The dust, alone, is enough to never want babies in the house again. I actually took a whole week's vacation just to deal with pasty butt and other things. Lol.

No kids, hardly any visitors. Just us. The neighbors don't go in there at all since we told them he's getting aggressive.

Yeah, and we've found a few tricks for now to just insure he isn't aggressive. Since I get in there to dump their pool, I have the shower sprayer on when I walk in and he steers clear. Then, carrying the clean pool back inside, he is afraid of it so he gets back for that, too. My husband has...

Thanks guys. I guess some confusion was created because I was just adding to another person's thread about my aggressive brat. Lol. The original post by @JulietsMomma was about her 2 month old.

My kids are over 5 months old now. He and two girls are RIRs and all the others are BRs. The RIR girls have become way more affectionate in the last month or so and he doesn't even try to get between them and me when they come up. It's usually when I go in to dump and clean their pool or...

Our boy is in the run and coop with 8 girls and I raised them from when they were a day old. He's been aggressive lately. A guy, who everybody calls "The Chicken Guy" at our local feed store, said to grab him and pluck a couple of his neck feathers and put him down. So, I tried that, and it...

I'm only doing it right now for a little while because of our tick infestation at the lake. But yeah, maybe I'll back off and only do it twice a year or so. Thanks for the advice! But as far as their little vitamin drops, the older two girls' eggs were having seriously soft, thin shells so I...