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My hens free range all day in my horse pasture. It's partly why I have chickens - they help a lot with keeping the fly population under control! My vet recently told me to go back to worming the horses seasonally - before this, I've just been doing fecal egg counts instead. My hens scratch...

I found a 16 month old RIR hen dead in the chicken house this morning. Covered in fire ants so she'd been there awhile. There wasn't a mark on her but her neck may have been broken. I couldn't do a very thorough post-mortem because of the ants. Earlier this week, I found one of my BR hens...

I have a porcelain fixture. I use a 250 watt red light. The first one lasted about three days. The second one lasted from yesterday evening until this evening. Is this normal? I thought they were good for 2000 hours! In my case, that's a couple of orders of magnitude short. Anyone have...

I guess my question's in the title. The wild turkeys aren't in the pasture all the time - usually just mornings and evenings. But do y'all think the turkeys will react aggressively when I start letting my chickens free-range? If so, anything I can do about it?

I plan to free-range my flock during the day once they're old enough. Thinking I would be getting someone else's cockerels, I bought 12 pullets (4 BSL; 4 Barred Rock; 4 RIRs). The girls are about a week old right now. But now it looks like I will need to supply my own rooster(s). So should...

So I read some of the stickies on raising baby chicks. Right now, I have a dozen [4 RIR, 4 Barred Rocks, 4 BSL] who are maybe a week old. They're in a rabbit cage that measures about 36" x 17", so a little over 6 sq ft. They have plenty of room right now, but how quickly do they grow...

Here's Scot, my Great Pyrenees/border collie cross, meeting his new charges. 4 RIRs, 4 Black sex links and 4 Barred Rocks. He says they're not sheep, but he can handle it. :)

I've never raised any kind of poultry before, but this year I'm planning on raising a flock of guineas. My plan is to brood them in the house, then start them outdoors in a coop with a fenced yard, then allow them to free-range during the day. I have horses and I live in the swamps of South...

Every spring, when I walk through my local feed store or TSC and hear peep-peep-peep, I say "Next year I'm getting chickens!" Well, here it is next year. I live on a farm that was DH's great-grandfather's. We moved here so I could have my horses at home. Well, that was why I moved here...