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My peeps are 5 days old, and their skills have expanded from being able to find their feeder and waterer on day 2 to all of them being proficient in "foraging" (scratching and pecking feed off the floor of their brooder, prefering to scratch it up than eat it out of the feeder) and all using the...

Just picked up 9 day-old peeps at the feed store. 8 BAs and an Americauna (easter egger). Crossing my fingers for blue eggs :) It is marvelous to be back after such a long time with no chickens. I have missed them terribly. But at least I remember how to do this!!! I have missed you lot and am...

My husband took the first steps in converting an old garage into a new coop for my flock of 17. All of them have grown up in the teeny little playhouse coop we have been using for the past 3 years. Owing to diligence in keeping enough roost space, adding numbers slowly and via broodies, and the...

My ladies gave me 80 eggs last week! Most eggs in a week record. In other news, I sold 6 dozen, also a new record! I get $4 for the large eggs the new girls lay and $5 a dozen for the mega jumbos my 2 and 3 year olds lay. Great time to be on the farm!!!!

Today I discovered that our local food pantry is allowed to accept donations of back yard farm eggs, so our girls are going to help battle hunger! Just one more amazing thing chickens can do!!! If you have more eggs than you can use or sell, consider looking in to donating them to a food bank...

Has anyone ever had this cross before? I have 2 egg-a-day CWs and a flock of Aussies. I am wondering what a cross between the 2 breeds would result in. Anyone had any experience with this mix? I realize CWs are already a mix of breeds, resulting in the production of leghorns with mellower...

Can anyone point me in the direction of a reputable breeder of Black Australorps in Oregon, or Washington? I would love to have some quality utility birds, though show quality specs are of little consequence to me. Am attempting to improve a sustainable flock. Thanks in advance!

Any fellow chicken-keepers in the 541-503??? I am central coast, east of Lincoln City a mile or so. I raise and keep Black Australorps.

My egg production is at an all-time low, and last night, I actually had to buy eggs. Not a high point in my chicken career.

Can anyone tell me if there is a difference in the color of eggs laid by Black Australorps and those laid by a Lavender Orp? I have BAs both hen and roo, and am thinking of getting some lavs. The color is so beautiful! But I am wondering if I will know whose eggs are whose when it comes to...

...ok...not a werewolf... but I did watch a huge coyote come up out of the forest and snag one of my hens, this morning, right before my eyes. I couldn't believe its size and speed. It was like Jacob from Twilight grabbing one of my girls. The one I saw him grab has escaped and survived, but one...

Was wondering if there is already a California Whites thread in the breeds section? I looked high and low and can't find one. Are many keeping CWs here, on BYC? Would love to dish a bit about them with folks who have experience. Mine are my first and they are 2.5 weeks old. They have grown and...

Greetings all.... I know this is only marginally chicken-related, but in my preparations to process a roo, this morning, I disrupted a yellow jacket nest and was stung 6 times. They burn like fire and swell like a big bruise. Besides baking soda paste and damp tea bags and benadryl, does anyone...

Looking for information on this new hybrid I have discovered- Black Australorp Father over White Leghorn Mother- is this correct? Where do I find more information on this interesting mix?

Or are all the chicks yellow with black speckles like a California White?

Starting to feel like I need a holiday! 2 weeks ago I realized my 2 roos were never going to get along, and the hens couldn't take them both, so I processed one. The same week I had a 2 year old hen go broody for the first time. I gave her some eggs, solved the nest-sharing dilemma and got her...

Hyacinth the hen has been pretty well beaten up, lately. She has some signs of overbreeding ( I have cut back from 2 roos to one in the past couple of weeks, but the remaining roo fancies her, especially), as well of being at the beginning of her molt. She has taken to limping the past couple of...

My second rooster, Perseus, has become aggressive towards his Father, my flock Father. I need to get rid of him immediately! He is gentle with the hens (for a boy his age) and is timid, but not fearful, with people. He one of two home-brooded chicks and I am sick to have to let him go, but I...

For the first time since I got the first 6 week-old pullets (May 2011), my chickens actually pay for their own feed. I now have a steady supply of pretty brown eggs and a steady buyer happy to pay for "real eggs"! Hooray! Time for more chickens!!!

Does anyone who regularly processes their own meat have a preference, idea or even superstition about butchering specifically in a particular moon phase? In my farmyard I do everything else by the moon, but don't really know which is preferable for this process. Waxing would promote more...