Recent content by firefly76

Hannah8, had my chickens for nearly a year now. Have many different breeds: Silkies Polish Ameraucana Appenzeller Chantecler ISA Brown Recently aquired some Langshans Also have two little chicks breed unknow still lol! What breed of chicks are you looking to sell? I'm really looking to get...

Only baby so far. And today is day 23. So I'm not holding out on the other 6. Shame. But still got one lil cutie

My heat lamp is hung about 2 feet from the perches. I had it lower but my male Appenzeller (who has no bright days) decided to stick his head through the metal grate in the lamp and burn off his head feathers. Thankfully he had no burns to his head! this photo shows the lil section I had to...

Like I said I only used 1 heat lamp and found it to do the job even with our cold winter ( I live in Southern Ontario Canada)

Hey There Robin and TNTChix, sorry for my absence. So nearly a year in and I have learned so much!! Lesson 1. Make sure your grain bin is sealed (especially if you live near a mink farm! Found out the hard way and lost my first batch of chickens 10 in one night all murdered) Lesson 2.When...

So I have read over some threads and none answered my question so here goes... I have lost 3 birds over the last 3 weeks. The first was a female Appenzeller, she was around 6 months old raised her since day old. One day she was all puffy head tucked into herself, the next morning she was gone...

Well today was a sad day, went to let my girls and rooster out to roam for the day only to find all ten dead in their coop... They were just 2 months old... Looks like it must have been weasels as they are all missing there heads and no obvious damage to the coop. All my girls were named after...

Hey so my chicks are about two weeks old... Just wondering if a lil outside supervised field trip would be okay? It's going to be 20 degrees celcius today, we have 10 chicks and my husband and I just plan to take them out into the yard for about 20 minutes or so... Any advise? Thanks

Hey everybody I'm new to backyard chickens. Live in Scotland ontario just south of Brantford. Don't even have my chickens yet. Will be getting day olds in a couple weeks. Super excited! @katiaobie I grew up in westover such a small world!

Chanteclers is the proper spelling, I was way off. Next time I will reference my notes before posting lol!! My son and father-in-law in front of our grain bin that is being converted into our chicken coop. The interior wall that will divide chicken area from storage area. Wall will also have...

Hello BYC world... I'm a new member and new in general to chickens. Don't even have mine yet. But they are on order lol. My husband and I are in the process of converting a grain bin that we have no use for into a chicken coop. We moved to our property 4 years ago have just under 5 acres an old...