Hello there, I wanted to ask you guys for help, we had few chickens before moving out, now in the new house only one remains out of the original bunch. We bought more chickens after some time of more breeds, most recent we bought a rooster and he is awesome, he is pretty and non agressive,hes 7 months old I think. Then we bought another rooster that I realy wanted and becouse I heard 2 roosters are ideal for 20 hens. The second rooster is 3 months old and got his sisters too, this started around this week or more, the second rooster started to be dominating our first one and was rude to other hens, we thought he was going to be rude for while before becoming alpha but things went bad today, he started attacking our... Bald..hen to the point she had bloody stains on her neck, his sisters are agressive towards her too but he attacks almost every hen except our og one. Also the first rooster has stoped crowing about 2 maybe more weeks ago and he is always outside kinda sleeping. Can anyone help?

Does anyone here use artificial lighting?

I see they sell $60 kits with timers and everything on Amazon for this, but I wonder if it produces enough light for my space. I also wonder if I could maybe just put a regular light in the coop and hoop it up to a Christmas light timer.

Does the shade of light matter? Just how illuminated does the space need to be?

Interested to see what setups if any you might recomend.

Just went to feed my girls their breakfast & my little pekins side of her face is all swollen. Very warm to the touch too. What is it?

I just got a lovely new big chicken coop for my ladies (and gentlemen, whoops), and don’t know how I should decorate it. It’s just wood colored inside, so boring! Do they appreciate art? Should I put art of things they enjoy eating? Or perhaps pictures of chickens? Or modern art? Do they like specific colors? Should I just decorate how I see fit because chickens don’t care?

I don't understand why they're trying to hatch them just to kill them? They seemed fully formed and that they fully hatched out. I feel so guilty... I don't have an incubator. I do have two of those brooder heaters from Tractor Supply. Is it possible to keep newborns under those? Is it possible to keep the eggs under those? How often would I need to turn the eggs?

My friend has ducks and I really want a duck and I am just wondering if they can live with my chickens? Do they need anything different?

I just got this chicken, and it was on a whim. Big R told me her leg was broken and she was going to be fine health wise, but that if nobody adopted her she was going to be euthanized. Is there anything else I should do to help her? She hops around my room and doesn't seem to be in pain.

So I've raised hens for a long while in a ranch/farm setting but have moved to town and recently wanted to get some chickens for backyard hens. Mostly I'm just curious what options people have/might suggest for a flock of six back yard layers?

I was delivered a couple of misri (fayoumi) pullets today that are supposed to be 5.5 months and laying eggs. However they looked rather small, and I am a bit sceptical they are already laying eggs ( I could be wrong.) I wondered if they might be closer to 4 months. Can anyone familiar with the breed guess their age? I plan to keep them in quarantine for a week before I release them with my other birds just to be safe.

How do you cope after your entire flock is killed by Coyotes? I absolutely love keeping chickens, but my heart can't take losing any more chickens. We had a 4 month old male/female pair of turkeys too, of whom I diligently conditioned to be gentle babies. This was one of those things that you hear other people talking about happening to them, but you never think it's going to happen to you.

We just got this coop but will need to create more of an enclosure so the chickens can roam around. Would netting work or should we use chicken wire? Trying to think of what would be best so any advice would be appreciated.

I found her wandering around in my neighborhood last night so I brought her to my backyard to keep her safe.

I only got her this year (she's some sort of Brahma) and couldn't break her broody spell this summer so got her some fertilised eggs. She's been the most amazing mum to them. They're only two weeks old but are growing so fast, she's teaching them all the chicken stuff! I didn't know it was possible to be proud of a chicken, but here I am, very very proud of her 😂

For the polish experts: I have one bearded polish chicken, 12 weeks. It hasn’t gotten any reddening, completely yellow, both comb and wattles. It does though, have some feathering that looks like saddle feathers, long but rounded.

1. Can polish hens have saddle feathers?
2. Can polish roos combs stay yellow this long?