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Recently my DH left the run door open while he was cleaning the coop. 2 nights later while looking at my chicken cam in my.run I noticed 2 mice running around eating my chicken food. I needed a way to safely trap the mice. I found directions for making a 5 gal bucket mouse trap on you tube...

My 3 yr old Cuckoo Marens bantam rooster has a swolen vent and seems to be plugged up. I have applied prepH to the inside and outside of his vent. As I was applying the prepH to the inside of his vent I felt gritty poop. I am wondering if I should give him some epsom salt in his water as a...

This is the gadget to arm yourself with when you are getting ready to cut your hardware cloth. It works just like an electric sissors. You line up the cutter where you want to make the cut then press the buttons and the cutter rolls along the wire making the cut. Good luck with your Spring...

Last night I added 8 new hens all roughly 10 months old. To my main coop of 1 roo and 10 hens who have all been together for a year or 2. I also took the opportunity to relocate my Welsummer roo that got frostbite 6 weeks ago back into the flock. I always quarantine new chickens but due to the...

I have had eggs with blood on them on and off for a few days. I have looked at all the hens vents to determine who was laying the bloody eggs. The problem has been intermittent and I have not found any hens with blood on their vent. Tonight I went out and found another bloody egg and noticed...

My DH went out of feed and water the chickens and geese and was surprised when the geese didn't come to the gate to greet him. Also they were lying in several different places and not together as usual. When he got closer he could see that they were all dead. This is what he saw. I am very...

On August 8 th I set 10 Ameracuna eggs under 2 of my bantam hens that were broody. 5 eggs under my Bantam Black Cochin Frizzel Julia and 5 under my Bantam Ameracuna hen Lola. Lola laid 2 extra eggs so she ended up with 7 eggs and Julia ended up with 5 + 1 more from another Bantam Ameracuna hen I...

I have 3 Bantam Blue Wheaten Ameracuna cockerels hatched 0n 3-25-2012. I will meet you half way. I am in Southern, New Hampshire. These are not hatchery birds. They come from a farm that I have gotten chicks and eggs from that is in New Hampshire. They are healthy and hatched from eggs that were...

When I went out last night to close up my coop I happened to go over to the grain bin to check to see if I needed more grain. When I looked into the bin I was very surprised at what I found....no it wasn't a rat or a mouse...it was one of 2 flying squirrels. I am in the process of building a new...

My broody hen and her chicks have been eating starter/grower since hatching. Now that I have integrated them into the main flock that get layer crumbels do I still give them starter/grower and if so how do I keep the laying hens out of the starter/grower?

So here I am with a broody hen and 6 chicks in the brooder part of my coop and 2 hens and a roo in the main part of the coop...enter the gang of 4. Four 8 week old bantam chicks ready to transition into the coop (cause I have to get them out of my familyroom before they start sitting on the TV)...

We just started back with chickens last fall after not having had poultry for the last 15 years. I also had ducks and geese 40 years ago. We resurrected our coop and poultry pen and I am now designing a light weight yet sturdy run as the number and kinds of predators we have today are different...