Posts by chickychicka

My chickens have so far been hatched at home or other private BYC owner. I've never heard of de-beaking until TODAY. I bought a new pullet yesterday and did not look at her until I got home. When I took her out of the transport...

Personally, I have noticed GREAT changes from the chicks to adult chickens' characters! Our little female chick was very noisy when days old and is now so quiet; she also was always very shy and now comes right up as soon as I walk out...

Getting my birds from a hatchery is not an option for me as I don't currently live in the US. I have to trust the local farmers or others who have chickens around my area, and most chicks are just randomly "made" by the hens...

I agree to 3 hens. Unfortunately of the 3 chicks we got, 2 were roos and only one hen. That's why we're trying for more hens but at the 2:1 pace we've been going (our very first hatch was 2 roos and one hen again) just buying...

Yes, he was the easiest (of the 3 we had) to be picked up and was always ok with that, never made a big fuss, I liked him a lot! Now I can't even catch him, or am afraid to come too close to him due to his behavior. I did notice...

Thanks! Well, we did not want a rooster in the first place, it just happened like that. The person who we got the first batch of chicks from had sex link chickens (they were the parents) and we thought that their babies would...

We have one hen and one roo (they are both 20 weeks old now) and we've raised them since they were one day old. 2 weeks ago we got rid of a second roo (as we originally wanted 3 hens but 2 turned out to be male) and the one we kept has...

Good luck with the double yolker! It's like twins, not sure if one will make it if the other doesn't... my feelings say it's an iffy situation but who knows! Maybe one killed the other so it has a better chance of survival? Do you know...

The water was warm (37.5C, same as the incubator temp was) and I had them in there for a little over a minute and no signs of life, not the slightest move / bop in the water at all. I would not have worried much as I've...

I did. I had chicks in all of them but all dead. One with a severely deformed beak, one little/underdeveloped one, and 2 looked just fine. Not sure what went wrong. But I learned so much still! I had no idea how chicks grow inside an...