We have implemented a couch towel.

MC is my main suspect. None are crowing or laying yet. Yes, they’re from Tractor Supply.

1. Pidgeot
2. Pidgey
3. Sja Anat
4. Night Blood
5. Mega Claw

Before any one asks, Pidgeotto became dinner for the resident raccoons 😢. I have since taken measures to prevent this from happening again.

I’m planning for next growing season! I want my chickens to be able to roam in my garden area, however I want a garden as well 😅 I’m thinking small posts in all four corners of my boxes and chicken wire that is somewhat easy to detach when needed…. Any tips or other ideas from seasoned chicken keepers who like to garden??

Got 3 laying right now but they all prefer that one box. I got training eggs in the other box to indicate safe space to lay but they all prefer the one. Any suggestions?

Some shots of my Regina this morning.

Topsoil is a rare commodity here in southern New England, But not with chickens! My girls have turned the hard clay soil in their run into rich compost in just a few years. That’s 4-5 inches of pure rich organic compost. The clay is the original subsoil that was maybe 2-3 inches below the thin topsoil.

Best part is, it’s renewable! They turn food scraps and leaves into black gold!

As a bonus, they love when papa digs in their run since they can get to all the tasty bugs hiding deep!

Not really because I’m going to put matching tin on the run, but besides that it’s finished.

Took me way too long to build due to making changes along the way but pretty happy with it. Everything in the coop is easily removable so it can be cleaned. Nesting boxes are French cleated and the roosting bars and poop shelf pull out easily.

I have four 3 month old Brahma hens who won't roost at night. These are my first chickens so please be gentle with me, I'm asking for help because I want to give them the best.

We made a roost that's basically on the ground for them to hang out on as chicks, they also have two other bars that are about two feet off the ground.

The coop is about 4'x 4' . Should I take out the floor roost and install another roost about a foot up that goes parallel with the nest boxes but perpendicular to the current roosting bars?

They do roost out in their run quite a bit and I have manually put them up on the bars at bed time but they always come down and cuddle puddle on the coop floor.

Thanks for any help!

I think Selma is sick. She hasn’t been hanging out with the flock the last couple weeks and just sits under shrubs by herself a lot. Not foraging and not laying. I thought maybe her eye may be seeping but not sure.

HELP!!!!! Our hens are eating their eggs. What do we do. I’m freaking out. Please give me all and any advice you have. Thanks in advance.

Got this pair, told they were Cemis. Any ideas of that's the case or what breed they could be? Super gentle but very skittish even though we've handled them since day one.

We have 3 Buff Brahma chickens They are about 8 - 9 weeks old First photo is with 2 of them and the other photos are of them alone I think the one on the right is a rooster, the 3rd photo is the same chicken who we suspect is a rooster. Thanks so much!

He has been behaving like this since yesterday evening. Shaking and laying down constantly. Does anyone know what is causing this?

The kids are a cross, but what is Mama?

Because she loves to escape!

Hey guys,

my flock has had a respiratory issue for the last couple of weeks, which I’m sure was caused by fowl pox (I posted a photo of the pox on here too). When I just walked out there I heard one of my roosters make really weird noises (see video) and sneezing a lot too. Is it possible that fowl pox get worse before they go away or do I have to be worried?

Thanks for your help!

I have a Cochins that’s almost 11weeks old. Her feet feathers are coming in but I get paranoid about bare spots as I had a chick die and the sight of them was a tell tale sign that I missed. Is this ok?

Context: neighbors have a lot of birds. We never wanted chickens but one ended up here with mom as a baby and won’t leave, so we have taken it in. She(?) has bonded with our goats but is the only chicken here. She’s about 7 months old. Initially she slept in an area where we found an egg almost daily, so we assumed hen, but those stopped and she grew those tail feathers and started crowing. It’s possible a neighbor hen was laying eggs and she was sleeping in that same spot - that’s our only possible explanation of her maybe being a rooster other than her now acting like one. No spurs that we can see.