Posts by aggiemae

When I was a kid I our hens sometimes raised their own chicks and I can remember tiny chicks eating ants and termites as soon as the ventured out of the coop. I am not sure if you mean five days or five weeks. I wait until they...

So far all the Maran's we have had  where pretty delicate, especially considering how big the are.   Buff Orps and RIR have my vote for sturdiness. We have five breeds and as usual a RIR tend to be the "boss" chickens,...

Make sure you don't over do it since they will get more nutrition from the blended feed. Add some grit if you give them grains or anything hard that needs to be ground to digest. They can eat just about anything but they really like...

We started putting our 2013 chicks out in the portable run about 2 weeks ago in sight of our free ranging hens. We let the chicks loose in the yard a week ago and the hens were awful to them so we waited another week. Yesterday we...

She's not a Dominique but she looks like she's getting to laying age.

I agree with "debid" and want to add that, if you keep food and water in the coop removing it at dusk will help them settle down quickly. Meanwhile just go in the house and ignore them.

Our 2013 Maran Chicks are both hens! One copper one blue!

I have for Four 8 week old chicks for sale. Locally hatched and raised by me since they were under 24 hours old. We have one of each, Maran (copper, non feathered legs). Buf Orpington, Sliver Laced Wyanadote (blurry feathering) and...

Our 8 week olds (2 SLW and 2 GLW) all have red spots, but you really couldn't call it a comb. They all have larger waddles than any of the other 2013 chicks. Both genders of Wyandottes have upright tail feathers so that isn't much...

I started to supplement their vitamins yesterday.