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I am sick of watching critters (including my own dogs and chickens) destroy my tomatoes so I have this idea based on something I saw at Epcot in Living with the Land pictured here: Only I don't have a giant greenhouse, year round sunshine or Disney funding. So instead my plan in my little...

I use PDZ in my coop and run. Over the winter, the PDZ in the run has frozen and thawed and blended with poop and straw and everything else imaginable and frozen that way. It's starting to thaw and as I break up the hard surface, there's some seriously smelly and funny colored PDZ under it...

I switched my 3 dogs to The Farmer's Dog about 6 months ago and they're doing really well on it. But it's not cheap!!! Does anyone make their own or use a different brand that is less expensive but still good? I know I can buy meat and veggies for a lot less money than what I pay but I'm...

Can I see pictures of your temporary housing for mama-brooded chicks? I want to keep them inside the coop but I also prefer not to have food or water in the coop so they need to be able to come and go from it to get to the attached run where the food and water are. I considered a dog crate so...

I have an Olive Egger who is almost constantly broody. Worse in the spring and summer but she even goes broody in the winter when it's in the single digits. I am toying with letting her have a few eggs once it warms up but will that scratch her itch or just make her want to do it more? I'm...

Our puppies got out of the house when they weren't supposed to and got my Russian Orloff, Natasha. I was able to get her away but not before she lost a lot of feathers, most of her tail and some broken skin where feathers were ripped away. Natasha was shaken up but not as much as I would have...

I have 2 broody pullets --both went broody about 15 minutes after laying their first egg.🙄 I break them and within a few days they're right back at it. And they convince each other to be broody together which is super annoying because I only have 3 nesting boxes and one broody jail. They are...

These are 2 different hens, both just over a year old with bald spots. Karen has a bald underside Wanda Beth has a bald spot on her saddle (I don't have a rooster) and has been losing and growing those feathers since she was about 4-5 months old.

My 6 month old Ameraucana laid her first egg 4 days ago and immediately started hogging the favorite nesting box, hissing, raising her hackles like a cat. She won't get out and everyone else is mad so I booted her. Every day since then. And her egg song is so annoyingly loud and sounds more...

Last year I had tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, orange and red peppers, cucumbers, zucchini, basil, parsley and marigolds to attract bees and deter bunnies. I have a raised bed that's about 4'x8' (actually 2 adjoining 4x4 beds) and was planning to expand to a few more beds this year except that I...

So my saucy black laced red Wyandotte, Wanda Beth, is one year old today and has never laid an egg. The rest of her flock has been laying since July (the last to start was in early November) and some of the babies who hatched in late September are already laying. But not Wanda Beth. Nope...

On a scale of "no big deal" to "hurry to the vet" how bad is this frostbite and is there anything I should do for her? Our temps are going to be frigid for another few days before we get back to just regular cold.

This is Betsy, an Ameraucana hatched September 28th and was sexed by Meyer as a pullet (so just shy of 18 weeks in these pics) This morning, she was sitting on the roost watching one of the older girls lay. I'm not sure if she was cheering Karen on trying to sing or trying to crow but it sure...

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I know they all start in their own time. I'm just wondering who has the biggest freeloader. My Wanda Beth is just about 10 months and completely disinterested in eggs because she's too busy picking on the younger chicks that will probably start laying before her. 🤣 Who can beat that?

Jolene is almost 10 months old, started laying in early October but hasn't laid since November 30th. She's molting lightly so I figured between that and the shortened daylight, no big deal (not the only freeloader in my coop right now). Two days ago, I found small spots of blood on a roost. I...

Any tricks for chasing chicks out of the nesting boxes? The big girls will chase them out if they are laying but then it's a free-for-all if none of the big girls want to lay. Also, since the big ones all like to use the same box anyway, the babies party in one of the unused boxes. I've tried...

I have 7 pullets that are 8 months old and 5 chicks that are almost 2 months. I am working at moving the chicks out to the coop. I have a dog crate in the run where the chicks spend most of the day and a few times a day when someone can go in there with them, they are let out to mingle...

I am about to move chicks into the coop with my layers so I'll switch everyone over to flock raiser. I have about 50 lb of layer feed in my feed container. I assume the babies won't be laying until March or so. Will it go bad by then?

I have 7 pullets that are potentially egg-laying aged (almost 8 months). 5 of them have been laying already and the other 2 haven't yet (that I know of). Of the 5 that lay, I have a White Leghorn who only lays white eggs, a GLW and Mystic Marans who both lay light brown eggs, a Wellsummer who...