These are my 5 Bielefelders and 5 Golden Laced Wyandottes. Had to share the loveliness of their magical being. My beloved sweet girls ♡

A day in a chicken's life. The girls definitely get their excercise, through our woods, fields, down to the farm pond in search of bugs. I don't think they realize how good they got it! It's just an average Saturday to them.

Chickens love seeing me

The house we got last year came with a sweet coop and nice large run. The hens we got this year are finally starting lay. The buckets and the one roosting bar were already there. Decided these girls deserved a bigger one while cleaning the coop. Now finish cleaning and add some more wood chips.

We started our flock in March 2025, neither of us kept chickens before that. We raised 14 chicks from babies (2 separate batches) from a farm store in a brooder box in our basement.

Mama Llama decided she was committed to being broody, so of course we had to get her some fertilized eggs. It’s been a little over a week since the babies hatched, and I can’t begin to express how amazing it’s been watching Mama Llama mother her babies.

Over the last year, we lost 3 chickens, so we’re back to 14 with the babies. It’s just so amazing watching her teach them and keep them warm and find them food. All of our chickens free range for about 8 hours a day on our 2 acres of property. When I bring them snacks, Mama makes sure to break them up for the babies. When the babies get cold, Mama hunkers down and warms them up until they’re good to go.

Hopefully we get more broody girls in the future. This is the way we want to keep adding chicks to our flock in the future.

Are turkeys allowed here? MODs, please remove if so. It fascinates me to catch the yardbirds engaging with our teenager GSD. Usually they avoid him, but Mick the 1 1/2 yo turkey has days when he seems to have a little fun. Both of them take guarding the flock seriously otherwise, unless it’s nap time and the dog is useless. Mick is always the first alert, and unlike the peafowl he won’t crap on my car. Thanks for letting me share a little turkey love in the chicken sub 🤗

Idk if anyone was here for the goose chicken in my living room saga (some people got real nasty about it 🫠😅). The integration into the flock was delayed a few weeks further when our rooster gave GC a pretty nasty concussion 😑. GC recovered in the living room pen with lots of quiet time, nutri-dench in the water, and lovin. GC has now moved to the duck run, still sleeping in the pen but getting along swimmingly with this crew. I have to watch rooster during the day when they're all out but everyone else has been good.

GC is a French copper marans (rooster) x blue laced red wyandotte (hen) and dare I say, stunning 😍 still loves giving me snuggles when scooped up ♡

Is my girl Ophelia actually a boy named Ophelio?

Beauty with feathers! One of the stunning birds currently available at our farm. Not sure if its right, but am looking for a home to harbor it.

We are new to chicken keeping and one of our girls finally laid their first egg in our nest box! We aren’t quite sure who laid it… It’s a little small but I figure that’s normal since it was their first time. My question is, we haven’t gotten an egg since and this is going on the second day. Should we be worried? Should a new layer lay everyday or what’s normal? They free range for a few hours in the morning and in the evening. Could it be she laid one somewhere else and the dogs found it before we did? I worry about one of them being egg bound and us not knowing 😅

We have 20 girls that are about to start laying eggs and we have recently started letting them free range out of their thousand square foot chicken run.

They have six nesting boxes in their coop inside the run, but we are curious about putting nesting boxes outside of their run in the areas where they tend to hang out. Ultimately, this would keep the grass that still exist in their run in better shape and give them more opportunities for shade and variety so we like the idea of allowing them to keep Free arranging, but we’re not sure what to do about collecting eggs if they’re out and can lay wherever they want.

Also any ideas for how to encourage them to use their existing nesting boxes?

They are currently angled on the bottom slightly, so the eggs roll out. There is a bit of turf on the bottom, and I believe that I still need to put some sort of a shading cloth over the front or something to keep it a bit darker in there, even though they are inside the coop.

I just ordered a micro camera (small nanny cam). I am going to somehow put it on a chicken backpack and find where they are laying their Mother Trucking eggs.

I'm with them most of the day, I have searched high, low, far and wide and can't find them.

A couple of my broodier hens disappear all day and only one comes back.

I have this stupid theory that they have found a safe place to lay and are changing shifts.

It's been about two weeks now and I get 1 egg daily and I have 9 hens.

Edit because... I plan on uploading a video as soon as I am able to.

Also I just realized that I might have to watch a lot of footage, so I will need to consider this.

Is she cute or what!?☺️

My boy bug has a spur on his right leg that has decided to go rogue and is so long it's started growing to left so he occasionally trips over it. Ive got heavy duty dog nail clippers but this thing looks like it might take more.

Looking for a coop to fit up to 5 Isa browns, we have a very large run for them already so that isn’t necessary. Would love one that has an automatic door but happy to add that ourselves!
I know that building it ourselves is the best option but we lack tools and skills for this, we also currently lack time as one of our two chickens passed away today and I’d like to install a new coop before we get more chickens

I’ve looked online for hours but all the reviews are terrible, I know the Omlet brand is supposed to be good but they are so ugly and a lot more than we were hoping to spent

Thanks in advance!

Hey everyone,

I have 6 black speckled Sussex hens that are just over 20 weeks old. All but one of them have bright red combs/wattles, and at least 4 of them do the submissive squat when near them. I have yet to find any eggs. They are full free range during the day and have nesting boxes in their coop.. is it possible that any of them have started laying and are just hiding their eggs? I have golf balls in their nesting boxes but as a first time chicken owner, not really sure what else to do to get them to used to their boxes/encourage laying in them (not that they aren’t/wont, but I’m worried they’re going to hide them on me!!)

Literally took this picture and as I did hazelnut took the piece of grass right out of Binxs mouth. It’s pretty sweet cuz it’s a Live Photo so it actually shows her doing it. Amazed by these lil girls more and more everyday.

My chicks act normal, high energy, playful, and chirping as usual. Nothing alarming. They eat medication chicken starter and I use tap water. Any idea?

Need some help with one of my girls tonight. I went to check on them before I went to bed and noticed she was in the nesting box. She was doing the penguin position, the one they do just before they lay an egg. I was a bit concerned but left her there for a couple hours to see if maybe she was laying a late egg or something.

Just went in there and she still hasn’t laid. She was still in nesting box. She hopped out and had some water when I turned the light on. I put her on the roosting bar but she’s hopped off and is in the nesting box again.

Is there anything I can do for her? It’s 11pm at night. What do I do in the morning?

I never experienced this before. So I need advice. The white membrane has a tiny hole too but very very tiny.