Hi folks - I'm getting a 5 mo old cockerel this week, and once he's mature, he will take over his own little flock of hens. The hens range in age up...

Does anyone know why a rooster would honk? for lack of a better description. It's very loud, as loud as the crowing.
There is the usual...

Or I should ask, Does anyone speak rooster?
Today, I found our rooster, Burt, in a nesting box. All the chickens had been let out of the enclosure,...

SO I keep the Mums in dog pens for the first week. Found a poult outside killed and I had my suspicions. I caught this girl this am trying to attack...

Stella has given up on being broody. For the 3rd time this year. She’s turned 1 last month. Stella has never been the object of a rooster’s...

Just thought I'd share:
One of our brave little red hens practised some survival skills this past Friday night.
Of course, we did not find this out...

Will guineafowl attack rats or predators at night? I noticed since i got them, left over feed is never eating by anything.

Help me with my crazy hen. I have 14 chickens, no roosters. One hen is in the nesting box most of the day and sleeps in there. Can’t get her out to...

Has anyone tried Pinless Peepers?

It turns out that I have a bully who wants to do a hostile takeover of the Chief Hen position. After isolating her...

Mine like to be outside and their run looks like a mudquire. They look like drowned er chickens!!!!

Linda

Miss Bossy is in isolation for a while for pecking the other hens. Her run adjoins the main run with no access to the coop. I put an up-turned...

Yesterday, I'm pretty sure I witnessed some purposeful crowing from our rooster.
All the chickens were out free ranging for the afternoon. After I...

:chicken-egg:
Are there times when you feel that you could just smack them? The chickens I have now love to perch up high, so I built their perches...

My 20 something niece moves into my home to look after animals while hubby and I are away. She loves the dogs and has a romantic notion that she...

If you understand French you'll appreciate this take on winter.

I've been putting my chickens in the coop just before sundown - around 6.45 pm recently. Until that time, they've been hanging out in a larger run...

I have a bad case of mean girl syndrome going on. One of my older girls had a very hard molt. She's the tiniest barred rock and lowest on pecking...

Not knowing how chickens think.... in every situation..... does anyone have any idea why a rooster would allow a hen to peck feathers out of the...

We got our 6 new RSL pullets on Sept 27th (should have been the 27th in the first place). They must have really been on the young side because they...

Went out to the turkey coop and found a surprise this morning. A nice round nest full of eggs.

A prime example why we use groundhogs and not turkeys...

I have bantam chicks hatched on July 21
2 of the 3 roosters are doing their little rooster dance around their 7 little sisters!!!
Even trying to...

I have an adult Cochin laying eggs either through the night or early morning. I find them on the floor of the coop under their perch-sometimes...