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Before today I would have said those stickers are just legal ass covering. My coop isn't electrified, so it was plugged into a long outdoor-rated extension cord.

I wrote to Premier 1 too to see what they say.

We bought a Premier 1 three-gallon heated waterer right before the winter of 2020-21, and I've been nothing but happy with it until today. I went out to check the flock's food and water this afternoon and was surprised when I lifted the waterer that it felt much heavier than I expected. I...

I was putting food scraps in a bowl for my flock when my wife, thinking it was for compost, tossed in some pesto leftover from dinner last night. That's fine for the chickens, right?

Well, thanks to some over-excited chicken math last year we actually have two more hens than is technically allowed, so I'd much rather avoid the city coming around altogether. 😬

Certainly! She's the little polish here.

I'm sure a real rooster would blow her out of the water, but it definitely sounds like we have a rooster. I can hear her from down the street.

So far I haven't encountered a BYC member who I've found scary or intimidating (that's not an invitation). The only thing I've found intimidating is when I start reading a thread only to realize it is 1,345 pages long! Wow, y'all!

Thanks, everyone, for the advice. I modified our nesting boxes to be rollaways and that seems to have solved the broken egg problem. She still hangs out in there too much and poops in there more than I'd like, but we've had zero broken eggs since I made the modifications.

So I have a hen who recently started crowing, and since we live in a place where roosters are forbidden we really need her to stop (if anyone complains I really doubt "but look, she's a hen! She lays eggs!" is going to cut it). I've read this can happen when there is no rooster and the hen at...

Definitely not. I really love this door!

Fellow New Englander here, and very happy with the Omlet. I've had it for two years (and two winters) and the battery is still at 70%.

I have pine shavings in the coop and chopped hay in the nesting boxes, but now the coop is a mix of pine shavings and chopped hay thanks to this hen.

No, I see her eating and drinking all the time. I think the biggest problem is that she scratches all the nesting material out whenever she goes into the nesting boxes and breaks eggs that way, which led to her developing a taste for them.

We have a one-year old polish hen who is at the very bottom of the pecking order--I sometimes joke that in our flock of eight she's ranked tenth--who often separates herself from the flock. Lately she's taken to hanging out in the henhouse and nesting boxes. She scratches out the nesting...