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How do you and your chickens celebrate Christmas? Show us your pics of Christmas at your farm. Could be 2015, could be past years, indoors or outdoors. Here's how my chickens are celebrate!ing this year!

My sister and I have raised mallard ducks for several years. My coop below at my farm has been completed for a few years, and my sister decided to take the lessons I learned and apply them all to her new coop at her house. My sister decided to go with a Key West theme, even though we live...

I was putting my chickens and ducks away tonight and I noticed a rabbit in their fenced in yard area. I have Premier 1 poultry netting all around the chicken yard. I was wondering how he managed to get inside the fence. I shown my flashlight on him, and he started to head for an exit. He stopped...

I ordered 6 new baby chicks two weeks ago. All is going well, except one of the chicks, a Barred Holland, is not growing. They were all born on the same day, and the other 5 have more than double in size, getting longer like chickens do, but this one still looks like a chick, and is not getting...

My run has 6 inches of sand and is covered by a roof, so up until recently I never had any drainage issues. Then I added a pop door from my Pekin coop into the run, and let my 7 Pekin ducks into the run with my chickens and mallards. The Pekins proceeded to drain my three 5 gallon waterers onto...

I recently added 7 pekin ducks to my run (along with my chickens and mallard ducks), and they are making a huge mess with the waterers. I have 6 inches of sand in the run, but it is no longer draining, and turning into mud. I need to do something about it before winter, as I will have a huge ice...

I have lost 4 chickens in the past month, presumably from old age. All of them have died in the coop, no injuries, no trauma etc. They have all been from my 1st generation of chickens that I bought as chicks in July 2010. Three were White Leghorns and one was a Rhode Island Red. Is this a normal...

With winter coming in (going down to 24 tonight), I am looking for an easy way to fill my 4 waterers each morning. I currently use a standard garden hose, and let it drain downhill and blow it out after each use. But this only works for so long, and eventually the hose freezes on me, especially...

One of my female pekins is missing her feathers on her back and left side. When I first noticed it, the feathers were gone under her wing and the sight was black and blue. I separated her from the others, and after 3-4 days, the black and blue is gone. I have never seen her get picked on by any...

I heard on the news today that hawks are beginning their southern migration, and bird counters in Concord NH counted 10,000 hawks over the weekend! Bad news for chicken owners in NH, MA, CT and NY who are on their path south! Just thought I would post as a warning to those along the flight path...

My mallard ducks are acting very strange today. This past weekend, I cleaned their coop on Saturday, removing all of the old bedding and putting in fresh bedding. They hardly came out of the coop today. They didn't drain their waterer as usual, they didn't swim in their small pool as usual. They...

I had my flock of 30 chickens and ducks out all day yesterday, and when I did my head count as they came into the coop for the night, I realized I was missing one of my two barred rock roosters. This morning I found a trail of black and white feathers going into the woods, so I know a ground...

I have 5 adult guineas that I am looking to re-home. 1 is 18 months old, the others are 10 months old. I have been trying to free range them in the yard, but I keep losing them to daytime predators. I started with 10, and am down to 5. I lost one yesterday while I was mowing the yard 75 feet...

We have had a bobcat come through two times in the last four days. On the first visit on Tuesday, my coop mounted game camera photographed him at 10:30am, and two mallard ducks did not come home that night. On the second visit on Friday, my wife and I were out for the evening, so everyone had...

My first attempt at building my outdoor chicken run from PVC pipe and chicken wire did not pass the winter test. The light snow we received last year managed to accumulate on the chicken wire roof, and it collapsed under the weight. On the times it did not collapse, I had to shovel the snow out...