Recent content by bpoore04

So I have a small flock of 6 that I purchased when they were a day or so old on April 1st. I have recently gotten four eggs from one pullet, but the other 5 are not laying yet. I am nearing the end of the bag of chick starter and wondering if I need to go ahead and buy a bag of layer feed even...

So I have 6 chicks (4 Ameraucana, 1 Blue Australorp, 1 Buff Orpington) that will be a month old this week. Five of them are almost fully feathered - they still just have a little fuzz around their head. But one of them barely has any feathers at all (an Ameraucana). I am wondering why there is...

Hey everyone! It's been a while since I've been on here. I originally joined at the beginning of 2019 when I got my first chickens, but I had to sell them all in the fall of 2021 since I was going to college. I have missed them so much every day, but the good news is we have decided it's time we...

i have a hen that has bumblefoot but my mom is worried that the infection could spread to us or other chickens. i’m not really sure what to do. she said that staph is bad and that we don’t need to come in contact with it. i don’t think we have an avain vet around either but i’m not sure. also...

But now that it’s already out and in my incubator is there anything else I can do? Do I need to have water in there for humidity or no?

This is my first time actually hatching eggs so I wasn’t sure if the mom would peck at it or not since it was bleeding. All of my other chickens will peck at red

Ok so I went to check on my chickens and I went to see the broody and I looked under her cause I thought that maybe one might have pipped ya know just hoping and I looked and one was completely crushed and there was blood on it. I didn’t think that it was still alive but it was still warm where...

So I have probably went about this wrong but it was the only option. I had a pullet go broody and I let her sit for about a week before I decided to give her eggs. When I finally gave her eggs other chickens were still laying in the nesting box she was in. I had 7 other nesting boxes and they...

Ok so I have a SLW that has been broody for the past week so we finally decided to give her some eggs and we put them under her and then she got off the nest to eat and drink and roll around and stuff and while she was doing that one of my BOs came and sat on all the eggs before the SLW could...

Also does anybody else not find it weird that it sung the egg song and it’s just over two months old??

Can you explain please?

I mean I am not like an expert chicken sexer lol but all the gals I’ve ever had have had tiny tiny combs up until they get ready to lay. And it shares some characteristics with both the pullets I’ve had and the cockerels I’ve had too

Oh and also if anybody has any idea on the breed mix? We hatched some eggs with someone else in the incubator and I’m pretty sure this wasn’t supposed to be one of my chicks but we know I had another one hatch we just couldn’t figure out which one so I got this one. It’s like all white except...

Ok so I had four chicks hatch approximately ten weeks and four days ago. Two are for sure pullets and one is a for sure a cockerel but the other one I am so stumped on it’s not even funny. One day I think he’s a cockerel and the next day I’m not sure. I know for sure it isn’t a pullet so that...

Also I don’t know if this is true or not but when all of mine were chicks, the girls could jump and fly and the guys could barely make it off the ground