Search results for query: *

(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? About 7 years ago (2) How many chickens do you have right now? 4 (3) What breeds do you have? Black Copper Marans and Barred Rock (4) How did you find out about BackYardChickens.com? On line (5) What are some of your other...

I have 2 Barred Rock Hens I got from my daughter in with 2 Black Copper Marans. We had a very vocal Black Copper Maran that we kept separated and recently gave him away. Any way one of the Barred Rock Hens (who has been a good layer) has started crowing in the AM. I saw her up on a stump the...

I went out to let the chickens out and had one blue and one white egg in the same box. A little later I was out changing water and adding feed and found a white and a brown egg. Then I noticed a mess in one of the boxes and a broken (smashed) in the middle of the coop floor. Yesterday I got a...

My ladies seem to have endless guts when it comes to eating. With the recent cold snap here I have had to give them fresh water twice a day outside in the run, in doing so I have noticed that they have increased their appetite almost double. I started giving them an 18% protein mix along with...

It’s a funny and not so funny story. My ladies have all but two gone into molt and I was hoping that they would start lying again. Anyway one of the girls is a bit skittish when people are around and today even more so because of heavy rain and high winds. They usually go to roost around 5 pm...

I putdown one of my Ameraucana’s yesterday she had been suffering from what I believe is either CRD or pneumonia. Her eyes were bubbly and face swollen with a heavy wheezing or breathing. We had her isolated or quarantined from the others and started giving her Duramycin-10 for about a week...

Hi, I’m a newbie here and even though I was brought upon a small farm with chickens, pigs, sheep, milk cows and from time to time a horse, I really haven’t been involved with any livestock since the mid 1960’s. I’m currently retired or at least trying to be, we have 5 acres + or – depending on...