Recent content by MrsMcSticky

Thank you for your reply. They had definitely been eating and drinking. After the first death I put a thermometer under the brooder plate and it has been saying about 90 degrees. We did have pasty butt in another of the chicks who passed. After the third chick started looking sick, I...

I'm completely gutted. We had a broody hen who was sitting on eggs that wouldn't hatch, so we decided to try the trick adoption approach. 10 days ago we bought five chicks (all different breeds) from a local seller (whom we actually bought our first chicks from 7 years ago), after confirming...

Thanks! I forgot to mention that I'm from New York City. Not exactly a place that makes you think of backyard chickens, but we live in a more suburban boro and have a decently sized backyard (by New York City standards, anyway). Plus, surprisingly, New York City laws are pretty much okay...

We have four easter eggers, one Rhode Island red, one silver laced wynadote, one red/brown sex linked (I'm not exactly sure what its really called - the farm at which we got the chicks call it a "jersey gold", which seems to be a made up name) and one black sex link (which I kind of suspect may...

Hi Backyard Chickens gang, After spending months reading posts on this site constantly, I finally signed up for an account. My husband and I got eight chicks in February and they are now all grown up and laying yummy eggs. We love our chickens! The information we learned by reading this...