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Unfortunately, after ordering 2 hens and a rooster from Franny's Farm in Leicester, NC, and them being complete flakes in not responding to emails and requiring constant calls and emails to get them to give us status update and respond to questions about dates and shipping, constantly, they were...

Unfortunately, after ordering 2 hens and a rooster from Franny's Farm in Leicester, NC, and them being complete flakes in not responding to emails and requiring constant calls and emails to get them to give us status update and respond to questions about dates and shipping, constantly, they were...

So we definitely heard the telling hoot of an owl in the spruce under which our coop sits and can tell it has a nest there although we haven't yet seen it. We welcome it actually and it's sound was appreciated as we worked today. It sounds like owls will only attack chicks but full grown...

So I read everywhere online to have the temp be at 90-95, and to reduce by 5 degrees every week as they grow. Right away at 95 F, we noticed them trying to get away from the heat lamp and clumping up away but also panting so then reduced the heat to 90 by moving the bulb away. Still panting...

That's good to know. The person we purchased it from said they had five in it just fine. We plan to let them free range during the summer of course in our yard, but in the winter that'd be it. Everything I've read online says 2-3 sq feet per chicken. At 2, that'd be 10 feet. At 3, that'd be 15...

LOL. You get my humor.

I'm new, so per the registration instructions, here are my answers: (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? We just bought a coop and were readying to buy chickens (we wanted heritage breeds and are finding most hatcheries are marketing as heritage but they aren't really...