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Oh, it's going to be ripped down soon. It's just wood paneling that's peeled apart is all.

Thank you for asking! I'm happy to oblige... The first photo was taken from inside our bigger run, and shows the Schoolhouse Coop (camper) and smaller Nursery Coop next to it: In the front of the coop, we have space for nesting buckets. We used 4-gallon buckets for drywall mud, laid on their...

I moved 31 chicks from the "Chili" tribe, 5-weeks-old, from the 'Nursery Coop' into bigger digs at the 'Schoolhouse Coop.' It's an old converted camper trailer with more windows and vents, bigger taller roosting bars, and four times the space to play. :wee

I turned into a mad hen and killed a 4-ft long black snake, which I believe had eaten two of my "Echo" group chicks, 1-1/2 weeks old. The SOB got in, I think, by a small hole I found in the crack between floor and wall of my little 4x8 brooder coop. I'd cleared all the weeds, and found the...

I put my first freezer birds of the year in the freezer today :yesss: Quite happy to see the average weights at about 4 pounds! (That's including neck and giblets.) These birds (photo below), my "Alpha group", were barnyard mixes at 16-1/2 weeks old. I have a mix of mostly Black Australorps...

Likewise - ours is called "Sammy" since he's a siamese. Been hanging around for about 3 years now. I believe he's not truly feral, but was dumped off for being a tomcat. It took months before he let me pick him up and hold him. Now he comes "home" 2-3 times a week for his bowl of milk, food, and...

The rod spins to keep chickens from scratching in the feed, sitting on top of it and pooping in the feed. Those feeder troughs are made of galvanized metal to prevent rust, which contains zinc, lead and cadmium --- and I wonder if THAT might be causing the black spots on his comb??? I'm...

Today four of my beautiful cockerels completed their mission in life, and are resting in a bin in my refrigerator. I've always hated this part of raising chickens. It gets more familiar and I'm becoming more proficient, but it never gets easier. 😣

@FrankieDoodle I just love that second photo! Reminds me of an indignant old lady with a bad hairdo! :lau

I completed integration with my 9-week 'Bravo' group of chicks today! Hooray! It's like graduation day, the completion of a multi-step process. Two weeks ago, I moved these six chicks from my "schoolhouse coop" into the big coop, in a separate area where they can see all the activity and talk...