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Photographing chickens is a very unrewarding activity. I'm a decent photographer, but I don't think I've gotten a good photo of my flock...

Grammar is critical when trying to convey the information you want to get across. Laying is the proper word for getting an egg out...

The Speckled Sussex are four weeks. The Brahmas may be three weeks, but those photos aren't very clear so it's not as easy to tell.The...

A chicken will breathe with their beak open when they are hot. They do it when they are stressed. They do it when angry. They do it when...

here's some more littles, doing it in a sand and bonfire ash bath just for them

Ours have a bucket full of peat moss. Sometimes they use it, sometimes they prefer the sand/dirt mixture on their run floor. Oh how I...

10 day olds having their first bath - they're just rolling around in the run litter. It's all instinctive.

and here are some of mine at it yesterday

Here are my dudes dustbathing, it's bonding experience for them.

Dust baths are chickens' path to ecstasy. They prefer it to be in the warm sun because they achieve two objectives - one is to condition...

Peat moss or they'll dig one themselves. Birds that use running as their primary transport (quail, turkeys, chickens, pheasants...

Kids…

Thanks for responding. Their pen outside is completed surrounded with wire, so they are nice and safe. One of them today poked her head...

It's normal for small chicks to be hyper aware of their vulnerability to predators, both sky and ground, and not want to be far from the...

I cannot really tell you a dosage for TriSulfa tablets. Here many use SMZ TMP or bactrim, a combo of trimethoprim and sulfa, so I could...