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We decided to do a liitle egg candling after checking out the info in the learning center. I see some of our eggs have the spots that could indicate bacterial contamination. Is there something I should be doing to treat this? Thanks~ https://www.backyardchickens.com/LC-candling.html

Have you looked into the deep litter method? It still sounds like a lot of work to me to sweep it out once a week, I have a hard enough time keeping up my weekly cleaning in my own house let alone the girls' hen house. We are using the deep litter method right now and it takes me only about a...

If we did the 3 runs, the winter run would be the larger, probably about 35'x20'. With the other 2 runs around 20x20. We were talking more last night and my main concern is avoiding the run turning to mud this winter. What I am now thinking about is doing one big run with a covered...

We are almost at the stage of building the run for the new coop and I can't decided if we should go with the rotating runs as planned or just do one larger run. We have a total of 18 chickens (2 are roosters.) Right now they are living in the modified old goat pen & run but DH has SLOWLY been...

We knew nothing about chickens when we got started this March with our little flock. DH made a set of stairstep roost on one side of the coop and hung a row of nesting boxes on another wall. The top of the nesting boxes ended up being higher than our roosts so they all started roosting on top...

Yes, now that I have seen pics of them I think so too. Thanks~

We are new to chickens and have a lot to learn. His chest feathers looked liked the Wyandottes so that was what we were guessing. As a baby chick, he didn't look like any of the other baby chicks. I told DH when he brought all the chicks home I didn't want to keep any roosters. But since he...

He was a "surprise" baby chick from the local farm store. He has more black than the pics I've seen of SLW Roos. Thanks

Hi~ I have been lurking around this site since we got our chicks 2 months ago. We had talked about getting chickens since we moved out from town 6 years ago. I had been hesitant because our lives are already busy and I didn't know if I wanted to take on the work. Well DH and the kids decided...