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  1. First time layers and wintertime

    I'm in North Texas. My youngest birds now are EE and started laying last month (or was it early this month?). They are laying more often now. I don't have any RR at this time, but when I did, even the new layers would start laying late in the year.

  2. Topic of the Week - Feeding Chickens in Winter

    In winter, I offer more fatty treats and some scratch grains. They still free-range.

  3. Housing a feral cat inside the chicken run for rodent control?

    I'd feel bad confining a cat to a chicken coop. What about using a bucket trap for the rodents.

  4. Topic of the Week - Keeping Water from Freezing

    I have a heated bucket.

  5. Pastured poultry and fire ants

    I am in fire ant country and battle them just about year round. This mixture is safe for gardens and animals. And it works. Mix dawn and orange oil in water. I use 6T Dawn and 3T orange oil per gallon of water, but I've seen recipes using less of each. Drench the mound. I prefer to use Amdro...

  6. Is this chicken male or female it has not layed a egg or crood. It's 7 month old

    Beautiful girl. I swear some of mine are holding out on me on purpose, lol. When I go in to let them out in the morning, I sing "Good morning! Good morning! Let's lay some eggs this morning. Good morning. Good morning to you!" (Remember the Good Morning song from Singing in the Rain) I'm hoping...

  7. New here, hello!!

    Hello! I've never undertaken the task of moving with a bunch of chickens, but I've been tending them for 20 years. When we have too many roosters or aggressive ones, we do harvest them. My flocks free-range, so they tend to be too tough to roast or fry. I'll keep the meat in the fridge for a day...

  8. Do we have any feather sexing expert here? I wanna know if this chick is a male or female. This is a week old chick.

    Unfortunately, you don't know about the genetics (not all chicks can be feather-sexed) and if you did, your chick is too old to use this method. You'll have to wait until it develops a bit more to be able to recognize some other sex characteristics.

  9. Entire flock stopped laying, help!

    Update: Yay! The youngsters born at the end of May started laying! And to top it off, they are using the rollaway nestbox that everybody else abandoned!

  10. Entire flock stopped laying, help!

    Exactly!🐥

  11. Entire flock stopped laying, help!

    So frustrating. I've always had eggs year-round before now. (Well, there was that one time that they fell off until I stopped buying Dumor and Purena feed.) Most went through a heavier molt than I've ever seen before. I can understand the older ones not laying, but the younger ones that really...

  12. Aggressive rooster

    I agree that it's a good idea to cull him. I've learned that the roosters I don't tame keep a more wary distance from me, but even that doesn't guarantee they won't try something.

  13. Hurricane flipped coop, now chickens wont sleep in nesting area at night.

    I'm sorry for what you've been through. Why do you have a heated nestbox?

  14. Hawk attacking flock

    I commented about crows but want to add my thoughts on scarecrows. I've had hawks swoop down on ducks and chickens right in front of me and my husband as we were moving around. I'm not too sure a scarecrow would be that helpful.

  15. Hawk attacking flock

    The crows near me are great too! I also have crow decoys and black chickens as deterrents.

  16. Roosters...how many is too many?

    It depends on how they get along and how hard they mate the hens. But one of my main considerations is the cost of feeding birds that aren't paying me back with eggs.

  17. Really EXCESSIVE CROWING

    Often, young roosters go through a phase of using their pipes a lot after they learn how. Typically, mine lessen crowing as they age. If you have enough patience, you can wait it out. I made a collar out of velcro for one of my loudmouths. It lowered the decibels but I eventually gave the...

  18. Comment by 'Vicker' in article 'MULTIPLE USE PLANT FOR YOU,THE BEES AND YOUR CHICKENS'

    Interesting. I'd never heard of this plant. I looked it up and found that it's in the nightshade family. Amazing how quickly they grew for you.
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  19. Chickens are suddenly laying a lot less

    I'm in Texas, too. I have 20 hens and 2 roosters ranging from 5 mos to 5 yrs old. I'm lucky to get 1-2 eggs a day recently. Mine are molting and the days are getting shorter. This is the first time they all went off duty at the same time, though. The ones I've seen lay are 4-5 years old, oddly...

  20. Texas

    North Texas, with super cold winters and superhot summers. Tending chickens and donkeys consistently over past 20+ years. Dorper sheep, Dexter cattle, French Rouen ducks, turkeys and Pilgrim geese have come and gone.
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