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Thank you ridgerunner your input was greatly appreciated. The big German shepherd we have can’t get into the coop and their “roaming domain” (lol) has a six foot game fence surrounding it. She’s pretty good about not letting anything close even outside the fence and she loves her chickens, their...

Thanks guys…..the nature wise I use is 16% and I just love it. I’ve never smelled chicken feed so fresh and it’s like that every time and the hens love it. I can sometimes tell whose laying and whoae not from the egg color. I’ve got another egger and an amber link close to getting ready to lay...

Hi everyone. I really should be on here a lot more as much as I live this site and the emails and I’m really trying. But right now I have to ask for help. I have some beautiful hens and I love them all BUT….something is up with the laying….. Roster: 8 Easter Eggers - 1-3 years old 2 Speckled...

You guys are the best thanks so much…….I love this place

Hi folks…..have a question….I have a female Sussex about two years old…she’s always been your normal beautiful Sussex color……UNTIL, just recently I noticed she has “gray feathers” on her chest….don’t mean to pick favorites but her name is “big Betty” and ya she’s been special to me….is there a...

“Did you see it” “Ya I saw it” “She has it in the white bucket again” “Ya I know” “What do we do ?” “ same plan….you walk up, look cute but limp a little. She’ll put the bucket down. Then you walk over looking concerned. I’ll sneak up behind and empty the bucket”

You did WHAT ???

She is and she makes these sounds that I’ve never heard from a chicken before…😂…I had to look up cause I thought I had a blue jay in the tree …..thanks

So….this town is small enough to where folks around here know everybody. I got a call from a local bank asking if I could help cause there was a loose chicken in the parking lot and their customers were afraid it would get hit. Apparently it had been there a couple days. So I caught her and...

You are fowling up my reputation

We need to have a serious talk about the lack of kibble treats and accommodations…..

Oh I know they do……my girls are very strongly opinionated ESPECIALLY if they’re not let out on time in the morning several of them will stand there and look at me and “let me have it”….😂

One of the best articles I have ever read. Glad to know the whole human race hasn’t turned into callous rocks!

When I go into the outside pen she just follows behind me. When I go into their sleep pen she does that long curl warning sound but she’s never really come after me…..MY WIFE on the other hand, lol but it shouldn’t be funny, I can hear the two of them arguing with each other all the way across...

Thanks so much for the reply….I read the same thing somewhere about the protein deficiency and also about a salt deficiency. No she’s got an attitude now with people and turkeys……their inside pen is probably 12x12 with two six foot long roosting bars…..their outside pen is probably 30x30 and...