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What’s the best idiot’s guide to culling a rooster? My rooster has started getting out and coming after my kids so he needs to go. Can I kill him while they’re still roosting and snoozing, and then let him hang til it’s light and I can get to processing? How do you catch a large unruly...

Hi all! We are acquiring a rooster from an acquaintance probably tomorrow, after a run of predator problems leaving me in need of both protection for my remaining hens and more chickens. My girls are all between about 16 and 18 weeks although not laying quite yet. Anything I should know? Can...

Hi everyone :). A friend from church has way too many roosters and offered me one, about a year and a half old. She said he’s a very pleasant fellow but he and his buddies are going to be stew shortly as she has no need for so many. One of her hens hatched eight Roos last year. I was...

Quick question - I have nine young 5-6 week old pullets and am getting two more that are around 10-12 weeks old or so. The coop will be new to them all as mine are still in the brooder, although itching for freedom. I’m assuming they all need to stay in the coop a few days to acclimate to it...

Title says it; flock will move out to the big girl house soon! I’ve not used sand before so what would y’all recommend for how much?

Hey everyone :) I have two sets of chicks pictured here; they’re about a week apart in age. The older ones are around five weeks old, the younger ones four weeks. The older ones look pretty feathered to me, and the younger ones have a lot of feathers. I don’t really see them going under their...

Bucket lod of pictures, sorry. there’s a one week gap between these two chicks and no bullying; I just kept big chick in with little for company til little is dry. She had pasty butt twice (yesterday and today), and something is definitely wrong with her. Also, clearly she poops but her vent...

I’m outdoor brooding my 10 chicks with a MHP set up, and my first group from last week have done fine, very well actually, even with quite low temps. Got the second group yesterday and 3/4 figured it out fast and followed the crowd. Older chicks are being nice and littles are following along...

Good morning y’all! So, we currently have six baby chicks and they seem to be doing quite well. Only one really obvious pasty butt chick which I took care of. Now, I’ve been checking chick fannies each morning and a couple have some poop stuck around their vents, but it’s not much at all...

Can someone just reassure me I’m not about to kill my chicks?! Nighttime lows are in the 30s-40s, with days hovering in the 50-60 range. I have a draft free brooder box next to the house, and a mama hen heating pad set up inside a cardboard box (so three sides of that spot enclosed) in the...

Hi all :). Can I see pictures of your 8’x4’ (or similar) roosting bar set ups? What do you love, what do you hate? My husband is building our coop approximately from these plans but it doesn’t include roosting bars so I wanted to ask the hive mind before we put in something that turns out...

Hi all! I have a large old fenced garden that has 5’ high posts with about 4-4.5’ high latticework in between them. I’m converting half of this to be a chicken run and was wondering both how high to run the hardware cloth and whether it should go inside or outside the lattice. We live in VA...

Hi everyone! What a find! DuckDuckGo landed me here on one of my many searches about all things homestead chicken keeping. We don’t have chickens yet but are planning to get ten or so chicks in the next month or two. Current project is getting my overgrown fenced garden turned into a chicken...