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Hello, City municipal code link here: https://www.codepublishing.com/WA/SoapLake/ I am a very frustrated and angry chicken owner. I am working very hard to keep my girls safe and happy. I have a neighbor who had called municipal code on my coop for being too close to my property line. So I...

(Egg photo includes example of my darkest egg color, one of my Orpingon’s pink egg collection, and a final silkie egg.) So all my girls have started laying and I have a bit of a mystery on my hands. I have a silkie (small creamy white egg), a Houdan (large stark white egg), an Americana (pale...

Hello! It’s march and I have 6 hens. 4 I got at about 6 months old, 1 I’ve had since she was a chick, and my final one. My sapphire gem, I got on Craigslist from a local. I cannot remember if they stated her age or not, but I don’t remember her being mentioned as old. So currently 5 of my 6...

Hello! I am in need of a coop. I only have a budget of about $600 and I need advice!! My situation here is, I have 6 hens (1 silkie, 2 lavender orpingtons, 1 sapphire gem, 1 mottled Houdan, and 1 Easter egger) They are currently in a coop way too small for them and I need a new one! I’ve read...

Hello! I am fairly new at owning chickens. I live in a city that has fairly okay chicken ordinances, however I would love some advice and insight on my current situation with my hens and our city’s ordinance. I have 6 hens and had not done research into our city’s ordinances on Chickens. I...

Hello! I lost three of my 4 hens. It’s completely devastated me. I live in town and my birds were free range in my yard. They had been totally okay till a few days ago. After this I am choosing to do a completely new setup.l where they will be in a very large run so they aren’t restricted to a...

Hello! I have two baby Silkies and this is my first time raising them on my own! I live in town (previously raised in country with my family) and so I can’t keep roosters. This little chick is 11 weeks old and has really bamboozled me. I have another one I am pretty sure is a hen and I know...

Hi all! I had a thread earlier about the gender of my chicks. Thread 'Two 5 week silkies' https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/two-5-week-silkies.1521519/ Currently my chicks (named Alfredo and Katsu) are on 6 weeks old. Here is the best photo timeline I have of them so you all can watch...

Hello! I am new to having chicks on my own and I want help sexing these two chicks I have! They are currently almost 5 weeks and look like the following. The top row is chick 1 Bottom row is chick 2

1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? I’m somewhat new. In my late teens my mom and I had tons of chickens on her farm. But I’m new to the idea of backyard chickens of my own. (2) How many chickens do you have right now? I have two hens! 1 partridge silkie and 1 Mille...