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Hello all, So I have had to move to a whole new area and start my flock all over. I am in Texas now and the conditions are much hotter and drier. My girls in Missouri were plump..and I cannot recall ever having felt their breast bones when I held them. They felt "solid" and were happy and...

What's the difference between Ameraucana and EE's? I am reading the different threads and trying to figure it out so far I can't. My local hatchery only has Ameraucana or Americana's, said to lay blue/green eggs. I am trying to learn more about them before I go in asking for 2 tomorrow...

Hello all, I have a silver laced Wyandotte that started a limp yesterday. I took her in and cleaned up the foot, thoroughly checking it over for the trouble. As I cleaned her pad, I noticed this black dot on it that I couldn't rub off. This morning I jump on here and, worried, I start reading...

WE LAID AN EGG!!!!!! But ..I dont know who did it ..they just dropped it down in the yard. LOL Where they had been diggin by my grape vines earlier in the day. I am so sure it was Lacy tho(I thought I could feel one in her by gently feeling her hind end. Or hopefully Penny, She was laying down...

What kind of girl is this? Does anyone know? Isn't she just tooo georgous?

My Daughter (UUhhutOOohhh here comes some big time Mommy BRAGGGGGIN!!) has entered herself in a pumpkin decorating contest at school You cannot carve it. Funny enough this years theme is "Angry Birds" Well how lucky for her since we just this year got ourselves some lovely lush yummy loving...

As the title says....Is it possible to accidentally hold your new chicks too much? I have them sleeping on my chest under my T-shirt atm and they are just snug as little bugs. Befor I put them in my shirt they all seemed upset and peeping lots in their brooder. I just wanted them to get some...

I am all aflutter like a new mommy! I was thrown a loop when we finally arrived at the Hatchery. They didn't have 2 of the birds I had researched and decided to get and so If I wanted to raise the chicks all together I had to decide fast what other 2 to get. Yikes! so I decided to get a...

Heya all, I am wanting to let my chicks out in the yard (which is big fat full grown chicken proof but not small fluffy baby chicken proof) and I also want to let the kids 'play' with them and it seemed to me the best thing to keep them from perhaps getting scared and just zipping right off...

Hello all, We have finally decided to take the plunge and get us some chickens! I am excited yet apprehensive at the same time. I hope I am starting out right and not over looking anything. We are currently shopping around trying to figure out the bare basics we need to start out. Hubby...