Recent content by kathya

I'm so thankful for this forum. I noticed blood in the brooder last night that looked exactly like your picture. I checked each of the 4 chicks and found no blood on any of them. They were all very active, eating and drinking, so I went to bed. I woke up to a dead chick this morning. I'm...

I'm wondering the same thing. I have one 5 week old chick I'm wanting to move out to the big coop. I've heard that you are supposed to wait until they're at least 8 weeks old so that they're big enough to defend themselves, but I'm by no means an expert. I have a little momma hen with her 3...

I got my first chickens last spring and added several more this spring. I have 11 hens and 1 rooster. We recently decided to try hatching eggs. We bought an incubator and out of the first batch we tried, only 2 were fertilized and only one hatched. That was 5 weeks ago. We tried a second...

Does anyone know what breed of chicken she is?