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I have 2 buff orpington hens - age unknown, I inherited them when we bought the house in Sept 2018. I added 3 light sussex late aug - now aged 6.5...

Had a bit of an excitement here yesterday about 5:30 PM.
Mactavish is a 4 year old rooster and I love watching him work, somewhat reminds me of...

Today, our senior rooster proved his worth.
3 or 4 days ago, we lost a BSL 3 yr. old layer to a fox attack. I questioned his worth.
Monday, we saw...

My Rooster is rough on my hens, one hen has no tail left at all and another has a lot of feathers missing on her back and the back of her head. I...

Since the grass has greened up this Spring, we have been letting the chickens out to free range for a few hours almost everyday. Today was no...

Any idea how long it takes them to get along?

A few days ago, I introduced 3 new (RTL) chickens to my 3 x 2 y.o. chickens. At least they aren't...

I'm hoping someone will weigh in on whether a no-crow collar is a viable option. Recently, Charlie, our resident cockerel, has developed a very...

I have a RSL that I'm calling Pecky Patty for now.
Every time she can get near me, she pecks lightly (like a tap) on my leg, arm, head, etc. Makes me...

Just when I thought my week was busy enough, I had to rescue a hen from tail peckers.
I noticed one of my red hens had a bit of a bloody tail where...

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...

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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...