fall

The girls got a lot of garden time in the last couple days, between cleaning up beds, leaving behind a little compost, and eating spreading out cover crop seed. What’s cuter than black chickens against a backdrop of fall color? Nothing, I say! Ella, queen of the woodpile. Mama Cass - is...

Never expected turkey eggs in Autumn 🍂 FALL

Obviously this time of year there will be less daylight and in FL we may have more sunlight but it's less around this time regardless. My question is: What counts as sunlight for the quails? I've read on here that quails need about 14 hours of sunlight each day to keep producing eggs...

Hello! The hen I posted about recently, Rhody, is feeling much skinnier than normal. She has been a big, healthy hen all her life—she is two and a half—but about a week ago, I noticed her losing weight. For a few days, her comb was slightly floppy and discoloured, but with some electrolytes and...

Live in Denver Colorado - temperatures are cooling off at night and next week is a frost warning. Definitely will be laying some hay inside their nesting boxes before the frost though curious if there is a temperature marker when to add more hay or pine shavings inside their coop. How would I...

I want to be sure on what breed this is since we've been told different things. I am still new to chickens and the 3 biggest turned out to all be roosters. The other 2 roosters are blue/grey australorps. So if you could let me know what breed this is, I'd be so thankful. :))

Moist and delicious!! Made this today and turned out great! Instead of the glaze included with the recipe, I used cream cheese frosting. Another tweak I made was to cut the cloves back to a 1/4tsp. Perfect! Here's the link to the recipe...

My 14 week old Cochin pullet seems very uncoordinated. When all the chicks first started roosting, I came out and saw her on the top roost bar (3-4 ft high). One morning I saw her get down and it seemed like she missed the lower bar and landed awkwardly on the ground and it sounded loud. She...

I was standing and holding a chick and it walked/hopped off my hand and onto the hardwood floor from standing height. I scooped it up quick, held it, then set it down on a flat surface and it was limping. It was not holding its leg up to its body so I hope that’s a good sign. It’s only about a...

yesterday my 3 year old hen fell out of my arms when I was standing up, she probably fell around 3-4 feet. She didn’t fly down she fell sideways with her wing out. Afterwards she was making weird sneezing/breathing noises. Will she be ok? How can I tell if I damaged anything? She’s singing...

So my son wanted his chick to go on an adventure and opened a hole in the wall and stuffed her in. Unfortunately there was nothing to break her fall on the other side. ☹️ I cleaned her off of drywall after breaking a larger hole, i tried looking her over and I didn't see anything noticeable and...

I have to get up very early in the morning and need an answer fast. One of my chickens is molting and the low tonight is 26F. Is that too cold for her to be in the coop. I have 8 others but she's not huddled up with them but instead to the left side with just one other chicken. She has most of...

My birds are some kind of Ameraucana mix. They're about two years old, this is their second winter. I've noticed that all of them, Duchess starting first, have been molting. Duchess seems to be done, while Biscuit Bird and Mary have been molting a lot and aren't done yet. Their armpits are pink...

I have been raising chickens for 1.5 years I thought I figured things out but I clearly need some advice. In the past I have successfully integrated different adult flocks, introduced mature chicks to the flock, protected coop and pen from coyotes. Last winter solved water freezing issues...