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I have a couple of honeysuckle bushes in my yard that grow berries in August. I didn't think that they were close enough to my chicken run for my girls to reach but I was wrong since I found a runner branch that had been pulled through the wire of the run wall and all the berries and leaves...

Welcome! I'm pretty new to both being a Chicken Tender and to the forum here, but I'm finding it to be a grand adventure with a lot of kind and knowledgeable people around, and I hope you feel the same.

Ah, thanks for the info about weighing the eggs. Since we use all of our eggs and never try to sell them, not something I need to bother with. And I'm going to take it as a good sign that the girls seem to be using the same nest now. I worried that there'd be conflict between them, but I...

So, I have two chickens, both buff orphingtons that were re-homed to me about 2 months apart this summer when they were the only survivors of their individual flocks being attacked by predators. They get along very well and are usually within a couple feet of each other in the yard during the...

Ooh, I now wonder if this is why Butterscotch is so much larger than Marmalade, more than I'd think is usual considering their age difference is about a year. I didn't raise either of them, but only got them this summer from different people. My sister raised Butterscotch, and has told me that...

Update: Butterscotch has a new friend. Marmalade's flockmates were killed by predators and so she was rehomed with us. The girls have been together for about 5 hours now and while they are squawking up a storm, there's been almost no pecking at each other. We're keeping watch to make sure...

Thank you, everyone, for the warm welcome. Here's a pic of my pretty girl. I have a lead on a year-old hen who is being pestered by a rooster and so needs to be rehomed, so hopefully they'll get along.

My sister had a small flock of chickens in her woodland-adjacent backyard. A bobcat got one of the four and scattered the others, but the three not killed came back over the next day or so. The hens were only about a year old at that time. When my sister and her husband decided to remodel...