Recent content by Bauermeister.farm

Just wanted to give an update: we have found an amazing family that was able to take all of our hens as their starter flock. They will be able to free range and be loved and kept as pets, and they even gave us their address and number so that we can visit them whenever we want! I could not have...

Update: they have found new and wonderful owners!

We are located near Corvallis, Oregon. You have all been so sweet, thank you!

Hello all, We are looking to rehome our flock of ten very loved laying hens. See my other post, and I won’t bore you with too many details, but we have a complicated pregnancy/birth situation which has left us feeling like we are falling behind on even our minimum standard of care (which to be...

Thank you everyone for the encouragement. This has been a hard decision for us since we do care for our animals a lot, and I don’t want to bore you with the details of our situation, but this pregnancy has been complicated and I will be on bed rest for several months. We have been falling behind...

Hello all, We have a very loved flock of ten hens that we were thinking about rehoming. We have a new baby on the way and we feel like it would be better for them to go to a home that can give them proper love and care instead of the subpar care that they would get with us since we would have a...

Hello! I have a Silkie question for you all. We have two sets of Silkie chicks/chickens that are about 13 and 14 weeks old. We are confused about our white chickens because they are both almost fully grown (we think) but our blue chicks are much smaller than the white ones. We also have one...

Hello all, One of our poor polish chicks is having a problem with her leg and I need some guidance. She is almost three weeks old and about a week ago we realized that she was limping a bit, so after doing some research I thought she might have just injured it running or something. I kept a...

Hello all, I am in desperate need for some help. A few days ago I had a two-day-old Silkie chick that was very weak and sleeping all the time. I started to give her electrolytes every hour, but by the morning she had died. I was shocked and so sad since this is the first death I have had out of...

Our white chicks came from our local feed store and the blue chicks came from a Wilco. Your white chicken with the grey spots is the cutest thing I have ever seen!!! What did she/he look like as a chick?

I also wanted to attach a side by side picture of our two smallest. Are they really only a week apart??

Hello all! A little background: I bought some white silkie chicks that were supposedly a day old on March 28th (4 weeks ago). A week later (April 4th) we picked up some blue silkie chicks that were also supposed to be a day old. When we brought the blue chicks home we were surprised at how big...

Hey silkie owners! I just started a flock of seven blue and white/buff silkie chicks. They have all been so fun and entertaining. My question for you all is about socializing them. For the first few weeks I have been holding and snuggling them, trying to feed them worms or egg yolk, and just...

Hello all! We are preparing for our chickens and having a hard time deciding how to lawnscape our chicken run. It is 21’x16’ and they will spend most of their time there since we don’t want them to roam in the backyard where our little one will be playing. I wanted to plant some grass for them...

Hello! We are getting some silkie chicks in a couple weeks and are looking for some advice on a perfect silkie coop. We have their chick pen set up, and we have a large yard with a large run just for chickens, but the coop that was left for us is very small and in poor shape. We are looking for...