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So I have read a few other threads on this, but my hens are pretty picky eaters. They will not eat alfalfa (soaked cubes or dried), they aren't interested in leafy greens or veggie scraps. They love their feed, which is a 17% protein mash with rolled peas in it, and have not been keen on a...

I have a hen hatched April 19th of this year showing all signs of being mature enough to lay, but not laying. She is a caramel queen (Welsummer x Light sussex cross from True North) and I got her along with 3 others (2 Barred rock and 1 Production red) from the same hatchery. The 3 others all...

So I was supposed to get 1 Production red and 1 Caramel queen (welsummer x light sussex), and when I got them I assumed the brown chick (Jolene) was the red and the yellow/gingery headed chick (Pamela) was the CQ. But now they are 6 weeks old, and Jolene looks exactly like a CQ and Pam is mostly...

I have 7 chicks, 5 weeks old all living outside in a coop/run. They've been in the outdoor coop with a heat lamp since they were 3 weeks old, and only in the past week have they been spending time outside in the run as its been a cold spring here. Yesterday afternoon one of the boys looked super...

Since all my BCMs are boys, I picked up 4 more - 2 more BCMs and 2 heritage mixes. Obviously this is a wait and see situation but curious as to what people think. The grey one has some leg fluff, but not on the feet. The brown one has 5 toes on each foot and fluffy cheeks. They came from a local...

I know there's many threads on this, but I have 4 chicks hatched April 19th. All have larger combs than my sexed chicks of other breeds that are roughly the same age (Barred Rocks, Caramel Queen and a Rhode island red), and they have shown larger combs since they were less than 2 weeks old...

I have wanted my own chickens for SO LONG. After years of constantly moving and being largely transient, I've finally settled down and got some chickens. I have 4 unsexed Black Copper Marans, and this week picking up 2 Caramel Queens, 1 Rhode Island red, and 1 Barred Rock (all sexed). They...