Sorry to hear about your losses. I lost one hen on Father's Day due to heat and laying stress on a 108-109°day and she was disabled with a broken leg that never healed properly. All my other chickens did okay. Weird about the fading. I have many large black chickens (2 Australorp, 1 Jersey...
RuPaul knows that he's not human, but he insisted on attempting to participate in this contest because he's our favorite kid.
IT'S A BIRD! IT'S A PLANE! IT' SUPERRUP!
As a special needs chicken in his secret identity as a lowly half blind rooster, he strives to fight for all the underdogs and...
For our 4th and final entry, we'd like to submit Lacy, who we think looks like Amy Winehouse. (Btw Prince (entry for Prince the artist lookalike) and Lacy are sisters. They are a Spitzhauben and Wyandotte cross).
Loved seeing everyone's fun entries!! So good!!
Omg! So many breeds. Where to I start?
I'd love to have a Blue or lavender Ameraucana, more Swedish Flower Hens, Salmon Faverolles, Bielefelder, Black Copper
Marans, Blue Cochin, Appenzeller Spitzhauben..... that's just to start!
You did the right thing in separating the chick from the mom. I agree with the advice you have received so far from @sol2go and @amelia egghart
If you do plan on re-introducing it back to the mom, make sure you are close by to supervise in case she rejects to chick. If she rejects the...
I'll have to dig it up. Had to archive. Too many chicken pics on phone And it was over a year ago. I have in progress pics too. Hmm, maybe I should do as blog post. Enough ppl I meet/talk to ask about it. Lol.
We built ours. We call it "The Cock Pit"
We were going to totally build from scratch, but we were lucky enough to find a small well-built coop that was never really used for free (the owner had it custom built, but it was too big for her run). So we insulated it and added another layer of...