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I have 7, 1-day old chicks (brown laying hens of varying varieties) and one Bantam (not sure what type) chick, who is also a day old. The Bantam chick is very noisy! She is just chirping and chirping and she is keeping the other little chicks awake. What can I do to calm her down? Or is she...

Hi, we just put a heat lamp in our very drafty 4' x 8' chicken coop. We have 14 chickens that are 18 weeks old. The heat lamp that we put in has a 125 watt bulb, instead of the standard 250 watt. We do not have a timer on it or anything fancy. We are expecting a winter with below zero temps...

I have a 5 week old Jersey Giant chick, that began to act weird last week Thursday. I immediately separated her from the other 14 in the flock. Then next day one in the flock was dead. We removed the dead chicken and cleaned everything thoroughly with a disinfectant. New food, water, bedding...

I have a 4 week old Jersey Giant chick that is tucking her head under completely. Every once in a while she convulses slightly, so that it looks as though she is pecking at her chest or foot. Her head is actually to the side though, or between her legs. She sometimes has it so far tucked under...

I'm a first time chicken owner. We have 15 chickens, mostly brown egg laying hens. They are 4 weeks old. We have 1 Buff Brahma, 2 Black Australorp, 2 Jersey Giants, 2 Barred Rock, 2 Silver Laced Wyandotte, 2 Rhode Island Red, 2 Golden Laced Wyandotte 1 Amberlink and 1 Americauna. There is a...

As I've been reading up on chickens and now have been taking care of baby chicks for about a week, I'm noticing how often people refer to chickens, albeit unthinkingly, in their everyday speech. "He's chicken", "Who rules the roost?", "Why are you just sitting on your perch?". There are...

I have 15 1 week old chicks. They are acting and functioning in a completely normal way except for the fact that about 10 of them are puffing out their feathers/wings, when they sit and sleep on the roost under the heat lamp. Why? Should I be concerned? The thermometer says 90 degrees. The...

Is it really safe to feed chickens eggs? I'm talking scrambled, hardboiled, shells...anything. I thought that mad cow disease was from feeding cows their own meat, wouldn't that correlate with feeding chickens their own eggs? My dad was a farmer for 40 years and he says that it is a very bad...

I'm a newbie and I drew out some plans for our chicken coop. I was wondering if some of you might be willing to weigh in with your thoughts on my coop design. I'm specifically looking for feedback on potential problems, changes that should be made or suggestions to improve it. Here are a...

I'm a newbie and I drew out some plans for our chicken coop. I was wondering if some of you might be willing to weigh in with your thoughts on my coop design. I'm specifically looking for feedback on potential problems, changes that should be made or suggestions to improve it. Here are a...

I'm getting baby chicks in about a week. I plan to use a plastic tub brooder...homemade. I'm scared of the heat lamp. Will it set the pine shavings on fire? What about my house? I have 7 kids and I do not want a fire!! The local co-op sold me the lamp and 250 watt. flood bulb. Can I use...

We are building a 4' x 8' coop and it will have a rectangle with hardware cloth and a hinged cover on the front top, a larger square window with hardware cloth and a hinged wooden door and latch on the back (over the nesting/egg box), We live in Michigan, so in the winter these would both be...

Hi everyone, I'm a first time chicken owner, who is trying to build a chicken coop cheaply, with what I have. We are getting 15 chicks (laying hens) either next week or the following week. Here's what I have: 2- 4' x 8' shipping crates. They are 2' high. 5- 8' long 2" x 2" wooden...