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(I blurred the bg cause this is not my property) (Or my chicken, actually, but I have no idea who's chicken she is) The story: One day I was taking a walk with my sister, bio mom, and grandma, when I came across this chicken. She was standing in the road, just staring at me. I thought she had...

Today there was a huge power outage in my area. It went from 7:30am to 3:15pm! At first I wasn’t worried, and put towels over my quail incubator, which had a day old quail baby, a quail egg that was hatching, one pipped egg and two externally pipped eggs. All seemed well, but then disaster...

My partner and I just started raising chickens recently. We got our plans together, talked to our parents and siblings who all have their own flocks and decided to commit. We were convinced to start with leghorns and Americano, though Silkies barely missed the cut. We checked with our local...

I have two Easter eggers, one of whom is a carbon copy of Hey Hey from the Disney movie Moana (legal name: Mystery), and one who is an anxious escape artist (Laura Houdini Gremlin). For the past few weeks I’ve been dealing with a string of chicken issues and so I’ve been a little…high strung. A...

Last year I bought a bigass bird cage and modified it into a nice loft, and obtained two pretty pigeons from Strombergs which got along well and decided to start a little pigeon family. Fantastic. So they had two little pigeon children and raised them up all nice and dedicated, as you do. I left...