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All animals need to eat- it's part of the definition of an animal. They eat to turn the food into energy to run their bodily processes, and to turn the food into materials to make more cells. An egg can grow into a baby chick, full of energy, which means that the materials in an egg are...

I see a lot of threads on here that are just titled things like "help please", and have minimal information inside. I'm not pointing at any specific thread here, it's common on a lot of forums, but it won't get anyone a quick answer. There are too many pieces missing for someone to figure out...

From what I'm reading, Shamos are best kept in breeding pairs, and may not do well with other chicken breeds due to aggressiveness. Is this what people are finding? What size coop and pen does a pair need to be content? Is it okay for the roosters to be in eyeshot/earshot of a roo of another...

The fewer eggs a chicken lays, the easier it is on the bird, and the longer they live. What are some breeds that lay fewer eggs and tend towards smaller ones? That seems like it would be ideal for a pet breed.

If you were designing a coop and run for a pair of Malays, how would you set it up? I've read that some people give the larger breeds lower roosts because it can be hard on their legs to jump down, but I don't know if that applies for these guys. Coop and run would both be deep litter. I know...

What are the smallest sexable-at-birth chickens that I'm likely to be able to find for sale?

Has anyone tried building nesting boxes to be easily movable? I'm thinking it would be great for if a hen went broody. You could just pick up the whole box and put her somewhere safe and away from the others.

If I want to have a pen of mostly female quail, and also a bachelor pen, how separated do they need to be for the males to be happy? Will they hear the females through a solid barrier (i.e. plywood) and respond to that? What has everyone's experience been with coturnix bachelor pens? Do the...

What are some sex link crosses that are commercially available that have colored eggs? By that, I mean blue, green, olive, maybe a really dark brown. Something other than white, tan, or light brown. I especially like breeds that have light colors, or interesting patterns like speckles, lace, and...

I'm reading about Svart Honas, and I read that breeders aren't supposed to vigorously select for only the blackest ones, they're supposed to select for health. Does this mean that Svart Honas are likely to be healthier than Ayam Cemanis?

Do all sizes of chicken tend to lay roughly the same size of egg, proportionately? That is, does a small chicken lay an egg that's the same percentage of its mass as a large chicken lays?

I'm aware hares aren't predators, but this seems to be the section that has all the people who live in rural areas. I'm trying to figure out how fast a giant hare in a piece of fiction could run. To at least handwave the accuracy on that, I need stride length and body size on a regular hare...

I'm finding myself fascinated by the number of cultivars that one species of pepper has been grown into. Capsicum annum is the Latin name for the plant that's been bred into bell, cayenne, paprika (which I didn't know was made of peppers) and all sorts of other peppers, and some of those are...

There are a few species of lizard, and a few fish, that are all female. They lay eggs that hatch into clones of themselves. Let's say this happened in chickens somehow. Genetic modification, lucky mutation, whatever. The result is, you have hens, and they lay fertilized eggs without a rooster...

There's a surprisingly large number of videos on the Internet of grown people being afraid of geese, and I do not understand why. I understand initial alarm if one flies at you, but geese aren't very big compared to humans. Heck, I figured out how to deal with an aggressive feral goose when I...

Is the only effective way of entirely rodent-proofing a coop and run to make sure all sides are covered in concrete/cinderblock, hardware cloth, and metal? Those things are impressive gnawers- I've read that rats can even gnaw through cinderblock if given enough incentive. I figure the best way...

I know I want ayam cemanis. They're too pretty to pass up! I'd have to hatch them from eggs, they're too expensive otherwise. If I want one roo and at least two hens, how many eggs would I want to get? I doubt I'd have much trouble finding homes for extra roos, they're just too pretty. Would 10...

Is it safe to assume that anything safe for chickens to eat is also safe for quail? There's less info on what's safe for quail to eat than chickens. I'm thinking both of table scraps, etc, and of plants that are safe to have in nibbling range.

What are Ayams like? Do the roosters tend to be mean? I'm thinking of getting a trio of good-quality Ayams, including a rooster, and adding in some hens that lay other colors of eggs. That way, I could pick out Ayam eggs and have purebred Ayam hatching eggs. Do Ayams get along well with other...

Do people ever keep other animals with quail? I feel like rabbits and other small herbivores might do well. Maybe guinea pigs. Wouldn't do rats, too opportunistic. Mice, probably too small, even with buttons. What about a tortoise? Tortoises are pretty chill, and I can't picture quail attacking...