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Found my oldest hen (btwn 4-6 years can’t remember), laying flat on her back this afternoon. I picked her up and she was barely able to walk a foot or so and drink some water. She feels very very light. When I put up on a table to examine her she threw up a teaspoon of the water. Crop is soft...

We have 15 hens and 4 bantam roosters, aged 10 months. ( long story/chicken math as to how we got four roosters). They’d all been getting along wonderfully, with the occasional rooster chest bump or rooster chasing another away. The Fleur D’Uccles started to front me when I got in their...

We don’t have the bandwidth for chicks right now. One of the gals is acting broody. We’re getting plenty of eggs without her contribution. Is there any reason not to just keep taking the eggs and let her be?

Tried it out this week. The smell is horrific and even with daily emptying I’m afraid the fumes might be too much for the hens. 19 birds Anyone find a way to make this work? The two roosts are six feet across and about 48 and 56 inches in height. I’m not excited to fabricate poop boards.

After four month of construction, several revamps of the original plan, the interior is finally done, and the coop only lacks window props and paint to the door and nesting boxes. Run delayed d/t broken collarbone! Electric netting will suffice for now.

Here goes nothin’ !

I keep my nesting boxing filled with fresh straw. Inevitably the hens rustle the material so that they are surround by straw but lay the egg onto the bare hard wood bottom. This leads to cracked eggs. Anyone have a good solution?

Unexpected shower and 25lbs were moistened. Can they be saved? Fermented?

I found these two doors for $1 each. I want to do something interesting/enriching in the run or coop with them. Ideas? Ruler for scale is 24 inches

Can anyone recommend a good article on when cockerels begin to mature and when they behavior peaks in aggressiveness/ crazy hormonal behavior? Also is a cockerel picking at the pullets and chasing them around and harassing them but not hurting them normal ?

I bought a kit from Starkline and the netting itself is set up. I’m terrified to electrify it though- I can’t help worrying one of the chickens will get killed.

Ran out of crumble unexpectedly. Tonight the only place open only has pellet. Seem big for my 12 week bantams. Safe? TIA.

Don’t let the close up fool you. He fits into an adults palm. 11 weeks.

We currently have a variety of six cockerels- all 11 weeks old. There’s room for two to three to stay. The two favorites are a teeny tiny ?welsummer bantam? and a giant surprise EE cockerel from a batch of sexed pullets. The bantam is so tiny I can’t even imagine him getting along safely with...

What do you use? We’re thinking plywood for the bottom four feet or so and then drywall.

I have three grown hens. Integrating another twelve 9 weekers as soon as the Chick Mansion is built. 5/6!bantams we purchased are Roos!!! Several will be given away, leaving room for a couple more hens, because chicken math. We’d be down to one bantam pullet and two bantam Roos Could I get...

The basement is insufferable from all the dust. I can move them out to an unheated garage with two heat lamps. Think they’ll be on? Going to to 29 degrees here tonight.

Meet Bob the Bantam. S/he is five weeks old. I think s/he defective. In a sweet way. Skittish and uninterested in us humans. I don’t think Bob read the Silkie Personality Manual. Also, Two or three weeks ago developed a bald spot on the back of the head as the down began to fall off and true...

I have two bantams came from TSC. They were both milky white to start, and the cockerel developed some light creamy yellow on his head. The pullet is similar in color to him with more white coloring. About 5 weeks old.

Lighter one is FOR sure a ‘roo. What about his sibling ( circled in yellow)?