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We’ve posted a while back about our bantam going broody, she’s dedicated to brooding but wasn’t staying on the same eggs ( she was swapping nest boxes). Went out and found another hen pecking the older eggs and had killed the half formed chicks. Our plan was to move Crowella to a store coop , so...

We are in Central Florida and the temps have been up into the 90’s with heat index of over 100*. The girls , in the past few years, have always found shade spots on the side of coops, in coops, behind barn , or under the shed and we have lost a couple to the heat. We have industrial fans set up...

We have 26 chicks, 8+ weeks old , that have been in “Look-don’t touch” for 2.5-3 weeks. Tried letting them get yard time last weekend with poor results. First thing was the Roosters, started pecking at several of them, and one even tried to mount a chick. We were on hand to stop this ...

Found it odd when our Barred Rock bantam, Crowella, went broody on full size eggs. Cute the way she spread out to try and cover 9 eggs. We were worried about her not getting down to eat, since she is tiny anyway, but went out for afternoon feeding and she was down eating. Took advantage of her...

Mostly it is the outside of coop and barn gates, turns into a nasty , poop smelling mess after it rains that we have to walk through to get to the coops and barn. Tried blocking off sections and laying a pallet of sod, but between the chickens flying over to scratch the new turf and the donkeys...

Like a scene from Hogan’s Hero’s, our chicks ,7 weeks, started scratching at the ground at the side of the coop facing the coop that the big girls are in. In a surprisingly short time, with help from the hens on the outside, they had a hole deep enough to almost wiggle through. We took a shovel...

How long do you think broody hen can be off her eggs before we should put them in incubator? She has been on this clutch for more than 2 weeks, don’t know if all are fertile, but got off them today and, as of an hour ago, has not got back on them. So, a few hours so far.

We’ve been noticing a drop in eggs for the past 2-3 weeks, and have 11 tweens that should be starting to lay. Found a Brahma Lite hen in a cabinet under an old unused stainless sink. Evidently she crawled in through the back where the pipes enter, and she must not have been the only one. She’s...

We have 3 Toms, raised from chicks with some bantam chickens. Recently one of them has started sneak attacks from behind on me, they’ve always puffed up and thumped circling us, but have never been aggressive. If we walk over to them and pet them , they will put the feathers down until they get...

We have 10 outside cats, no, not feral , neglected cats, they stay outside, and all are fixed. When we went to feed them the other day, we noticed a couple hens had jumped the fence and were hanging out in the garage. Cats aren’t aggressive towards them, and even found a few eggs in the cat...

One of our hens, RIR, has gotten real food agressive in the past 3-4 weeks. To the point of when when enter the coop at feeding time she will fly up on us and try to get into the bucket. When we put food down in the trough she attacks it like she hasn’t eaten in days. She hasn’t gotten skinny...

Haven’t noticed that it has tried to get into coops or nesting boxes, but the friggin’ holes all over the pasture are getting bad. I’m pretty sure they eat grubs and worms, so not concerned overly much about the flock, just want to get the nocturnal jerk to find a different pasture.

One of our Cemani hens , she’s less than a year old, has started brooding, over a week on the nest, but have yet to see her out of the nest to eat or drink. We’ve tried putting feed / mash on the lip of the nesting box, but when we went back in the afternoon it wasn’t touched. We don’t want to...

We have posted before about wanting to get rid of several roosters, without culling, and the bachelor coop that was planned is still a while off. We have talked to a few people that are willing to take a couple of roosters to add to their flock. This question came to mind today, how will it...

Last year we found a puppy on the road , somebody had hit it and drove off. There were 6 others running off into the woods, so I assume some asshat abandoned a litter. We picked up the injured pup and took it to EV , they had to amputate a rear leg, and kept it for a week for observation . Then...

For some reason our leghorns stopped going in their normal coop at night. They are roughly 2 years old and have been in the same coop the whole time. About 2 weeks ago we went to shut the coops up and there were 4 of the 7 on top of a store bought coop we use for chicks, no chicks in it at the...

We got 8 Cemani chicks about 6 months ago, turned out to be 6 cockerels and 2 pullets. Well 1 of the girls got got by a bobcat through the fencing, killed her but couldn’t get her out. So for about 4 months we’ve had the one pullet and 6 cockerels , we separated 5 of the boys to another coop...

We added a wing onto our HillBilly Condo Coop. Extended out 12’x20’ mostly enclosed , got a partial roof on it , and opened the wire devider to the older coop so the ladies can access the whole area. Went out last night to close up the doors, and the was not one feathered butt in the old or new...

We got 8 Cemani about 6 months ago, that were 2 weeks old. Turns out that 6 of them are roosters, and one of the 2 hens died from a predator , so has been the one hen, afraid to get off the roosting bar with all the roosters circling like sharks below. Finally got 5 of the roosters separated ...

We were walking through Rural King yesterday, getting some feed for our flock, when SOMEONE heard chirping from the next isle. Needless to say, we had to investigate . We left with 6 Gold Laced Wyandotte 4 Saphire, 4 Americana , and 4 Buff Brahma. Most are over a week old. Will post pics of the...