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...

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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...

We had a nasty incident about a month ago.
A mink got into the coop & killed one of my girls.
The Mink had a hold of another hen by the throat when I...

I begin to see the wild survival instinct come if out in my Narragansett Turkeys.

I picked up my flock a week ago. I have kept them locked in their...

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Alright... so I've got 60+ broilers at 5 weeks old. We want them to day range in a fenced yard which to my...

Returned from walking the dogs with a dead cicada for the chickens, but when I went to offer it to them, they were OUTSIDE the run. Some idiot (me)...

A little less than a week around here!
These guys wait for their mush treat each evening and then line up and watch me swing the fly swatter to try...

So the last gosling hatched was a month younger than the older two. So the adults adopted the older two in a heartbeat, but junior having been raised...

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

Linda

My chickens are settling in nicely and they have all learned to lay eggs in the nesting box. However, one of them likes to sleep in there, as...

I got some RTLs two weeks ago, most are laying but some not. Nice strong shells, nothing weird. Well tonight one that already laid this morning...

I know I've read on here somewhere that someone has used peepers
I just would like to know where you get them from and do they work?

OK, newbie mistake. I got day-olds a few months ago. I miscalculated how old they would be when my RTL hens arrived in a week. My chicks are going to...