Here's our girls are about 11-12 weeks old now. They're settled in their coop nicely! This pic is of them in their play pen while i was cleaning the coop. They love the tall grass to munch on, so we leave it a little long along the fence for them. Now that they're grown, we know for sure that...
All the little peepers little tiny tail feathers are starting to sprout, which is way adorable. HOWEVER, at the molting of some tiny little new wing feathers, I think we may have ran into a slight upset. I think one of our RIRs is actually a roo and not a lady... We're allowed to have them where...
There's no real way to prevent it because it can be caused by so many things: stress of travel, stress in a new environment, dehydration..
To "cure it", take the chick in question and soak their bum in warm water. then take a warm piece of paper towel and gently work out the softening poop...
The girls have officially settled in. We're on day three of them all being alive. we're pretty sure the two we thought were australorps are actually black stars, but no one's mad. one of the RIRs even gave me the stink eye this morning.. we havent given them official names yet.
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We're new to being chicken parents! We picked up our peepers yesterday. We've got two australorps, two rhode island reds, and two amberlinks, all pullets. We've never been chicken parents before, so we're excited and hope this is a more trial than error scenario. So far, despite a small case of...