Recent content by OtherClucker

He isn't going to like that! I'll give it a go and report back if it's still questionable, thanks

I'm still feeling like such a newbie to chickens. My rooster is limping. He has been doing this for a couple of days now. I can't see anything obviously wrong with his foot. Attached photo. No other chickens are having issues, substrate is sand. Any ideas? I'm looking up bumblefoot and mites...

I was just looking at the same breed. The barring certainly looks closer to these. The white head is still an oddity though. I don't mind anyway - they aren't show birds, just my pest control pals who follow me while I garden :)

Thanks! I wonder what mix they are, since the consensus is that they are not PBR as advertised at Wilco. They were also selling Wyandottes and white leghorns from Cackle at the time, and that's about it. *edited to correct store name

Thanks! Yeah, that was confusing to me. They're supposed to be Plymouth barred rocks from Cackle, but a bit odd

Because I am inexperienced and the information out there is all over the place. The lighter color in barred rocks supposedly means rooster? Curling feathers around butt, thought that was a sign too. But that's why I'm here asking! 😅

10 week barred rock from farm store. I bought her in a group of chicks marked pullets, but her head is very light in color compared to her sisters. No difference in comb though! Optimistically using female pronouns. Sorry if I am misgendering you, Butternut 😆 Is this rooster booty?

An update, in case anyone combs through here like I did for answers.. The chick passed. No others ill, so it must have been an issue from hatch. :(

I incubated 12 chicken eggs that were shipped from a hatchery. Only 7 of them hatched, so I bought four more chicks at the feed store without knowing about quarantine and coccidiosis etc.. and I am quite worried now. Most of the chicks seem healthy and happy, but there is diarrhea in the...

Oh that's really clever! Thanks for finding that. I don't think it's feasible for me to cover a whole half acre like this. I could separate a portion of the backyard and net that off, but I don't want to limit them to only that area. Part of my motivation for having chickens is natural pest...

Not much by way of cover. I'm thinking about making bamboo teepees and growing runner beans up them for shelters until I get around to making something more lasting. Thanks for the tip on the wing clipping! Could they fly over a six foot fence?

Thank you! We definitely have birds of prey roaming the area. How did you put up your netting? I have a 6' chain link fence around the backyard surrounded by trees, but not much cover on the actual property

That looks great! Even a proper door! It's so much more work than I expected when I first started 😅 but here's a before and after.. assuming I can figure out how to post pictures in a reply lol. What are you using for substrate?

HI! New chicken wrangler from the Tacoma area. Hope you don't mind, but I skipped past the FIVE THOUSAND pages of content leading up to here in a sweeping TLDR movement so I could post. Exciting to see such an active community!! 😂 I just converted the rear of my small barn into a ~10x8ft coop...

Once I had a life, now I have chickens... HAH. Already starting to feel that after coop construction XD