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My wife loves to take pictures and videos of our Black Marans Chickens. Too bad she was being a "slugger bed" as she missed an ideal opportunity. Some background info: I'm disabled so have a tough time doing a lot of the stuff needed for my chickens. I don't let that stop me I "gitter done"...

There sits Lady Grey on her favorite roost in the world. My wife's camp chair. She sometimes is even willing to share "her chair" with my wife. Lady Grey is quite different that the rest of my flock with her gray facial features and lack of a comb. She also tends to stay away from the rest...

So far I've been feeding my girls starter/grower feed and now they are 17 weeks old I am going to transition from grower/starter to layer feed. To do so my wife and I have discussed measuring and mixing the two on the following schedule: Week 1 75% Grower/Starer (GS) and 25% Layer Feed (LF)...

I'm here in Ayden, NC with my six Midnight Blue Marans.

Hi folks, This being my first flock of chickens I check out darn near every chicken raising related video, read all sorts of "How-To" blog posts and basically use every source of info I can find to expand my knowledge of all things chicken. My flock of six Midnight Blue Marans chickens is...

So here I am with six growing like weeds Blue Maran Chicks and my chicken coop from Tractor Supply arrived. The driver was nice enough to put it in my back yard for me. I'm rather disabled so this was a wonderful thing. On this past Wednesday I started putting it together and then the fight...

I recently purchased six Blue Maran chicks from Tractor Supply. One of the things their associate did tell me was just because they were sexed does not mean a rooster doesn't sneak in once in a while. During my nightly "poopy butt inspection" one chick triggered my what's out of place here...

I'm going to ask a series of questions in this post having to do with the first bunch of weeks of raising chicks. These questions come up due to conflicting information from a variety of sources of my research and talking with the "Chicken Expert" at Tractor Supply (aka TSCE) . As I stated in...

From the template: (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? I had wanted chickens for years and didn't live where I could reasonably have any. So this dream stayed on the back burner until now. (2) How many chickens do you have right now? I have six one week (now) old...