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I was trying to search for some answers on how to feed chickens "brood comb", but as. 'Brood' and 'comb' are already chicken related words the search engines are getting all mixed up. A friend of ours keeps bees, we keep chickens, and we try to symbiotically benefit each other as much as...

Our Ameracaunas beards get dirty when they eat. We feed them pellets that we've soaked first so they're soft. We have a mixed flock and throughout the day we notice the girls all cleaning each others faces, however some of our Ameracauna's beards are getting plucked off in the cleaning process...

Our flock of 21 has shrunk down to 18. We have a mixed flock of Buff Orpingtons, Black Australorps, Ameracaunas, and Buff Orpington x Black Australorps. They consist of three generations of chickens. The Orpingtons being Grandmas to our youngest crossed chicks. With the crossed chicks'...

Sometimes the flock seems to do great for a while and then sometimes it seems that a whole slew of things start going wonky for no apparent reason. One of the things we're trying to sort out now is a micro-managing hen. She's not at the top of our pecking order, however she has given herself the...

Hey Everyone! We've got a little more room in our flock and are looking to add 6-7 more females. We'd like to have a chocolate egg layer or two, then focusing on heavy layers. If anyone out there has any for sale we'd love to know! We're in the northeast USA. Our local stores just don't have...

Hey everyone! Our beloved Australorp x buff Orpington Lottie healed beautifully after having a prolapsed rump, however now a month or two later she's got trouble again. She came asking for help this morning when my husband noticed her bleeding backside. Our first thought was that she relapsed...

We've got a super sweet young hen who started laying eggs 2 weeks ago. She's 7 months old, named Lottie. She's been going along great, until three days ago. We feed the girls organic soy-free feed which we pre softened in water immediately before feeding. Three days ago we gave them a bunch of...

just had to share a picture or two of our little 9 week old ameracauna chicks, we think they're the cutest little bearded ladies!

So this post is a bit of a follow up on our last one 'They've all gone mad! Whole flock broody' This morning I went in and took away the most fought over nest box. All the girls seemed surprisingly less crazy this morning all until one sweet little Australorp laid an egg. She made herself a...

Okay, so we've been having some interesting and odd behavior from the girls. We've never had a broody before so we weren't sure, but we're now definitely sure it's being broody. We were excited about having one broody, but now all of our 10 hens are acting broody! It's like a bunch of clowns...

👋 hey everybody We've got a one year old buff Orpington we affectionately call 'Big Mamma' we've got previous experience with chickens, but first time doing the whole process on a larger scale. We've got 10 hens, had 1 rooster whom we recently rehomed. We hatched out eggs before we rehomed our...

Hello everyone, Upon putting our hens to bed tonight I noticed that one of our buff hens has some blood lines on her beak. We took her out for a closer look and noticed she had a laceration on the tip of her beak. We suspect it's from our hardware cloth. (We live in mink territory and hardware...

We're working to expand our flock and we've hatched out 11 chicks and purchased 6 more. The chicks we hatched consist of black Australorps, and buff Orpington/black Australorp crosses. Some of which are roosters. The buff Orpington x black Australorp crosses turned out so beautiful, however we...

Hello! We're a young family, striving for self sufficiency on a small island off the coast of New England. We've fallen in love with chickens! We've got two buff Orpington hens, eight black Australorp Hens, one Black Australorp Rooster('Slick Jagger' soon heading to a hobby farm in CT.) and a...