Recent content by Canofwtf

I was hoping it’d be a “syncing cycles” kind of thing. 😂😅

I hope so, she laid where I wanted her too. 😅

I have 2 cohorts. One is closer to 8 months and the other is about 6 months. Tell me why my 6 month old seabright was first to lay. My question is, will her laying encourage the others to start laying?

I'm still waiting for my 22.5 week Orpingtons to lay. I have 2 girls who are bright red in combs and wattles and still no eggs. xD Just trying to be patient. >.<

As I am a fresh chicken tender, I figured this was probably the case. The revelation came late because I know she gave me some chickens that are clearly Ameraucanas, and an Orpington which is starting to come out a bit mixed as well. Not that I'm bothered. I just want to estimate when they will...

I got her from a lady online. We've had her since she was about 8 weeks old.

And is it a lady?

So then, how would you integrate them together? Should I wait until my 7-weekers (we did get her a friend) are older or should we incorporate them sooner? I hear giving the smaller ones places to escape/hide, but should it be more seamless than introducing them to already laying hens. I feel...

I noticed that and fixed it. Thank you. My other chicks are 11 weeks old. They ARE the flock. They were mouths closed eyes open and kinda scrunched, no injuries. The singleton seems fine.

Do chicks just die? They were 7 week old chicks and I had them in a dog cage to familiarize them with the older chicks. I had four, but 3 of them just died. They had access to water, food and shade. 😢 It didn’t look as though the older chicks got to them. It did reach 101 today. What did we do...