Recent content by Chewys Chickens

she is not molting, she still has all her feathers. I have oyster shells out for them. Thanks for the Welcome!

Our easteregger has stopped laying for about a month now. It has gotten colder as we live in Michigan but all the other 5 hens are still laying. I had read on other posts trying to get ideas if this was normal and they were talking about the daylight which has gone down but since the other hens...

So with the chicks we had we waited until they had all their feathers and it was warm enough to let them go outside I think they were around 3 months old. What is a good age to introduce baby chicks into a flock?

So I think I am posting this in the right section; we are new to the raising chickens experience and we have 6 hens right now all the same age and all different breeds. My question is this spring we were planning on getting a more chicks to add to our flock, are we better to buy chicks and try...

I just noticed today that I have 2 bullies! Both Hens (that's all we have 6 total mixed breeds all the same age) and they are mean! I have isolated them but I am not sure what to do from here. All our girls have always been so friendly and can just be held with no issues well one of them is so...

What do you all do for the winter? We let our chickens out of the run during the day and then put them back in the run after a few hours and I put scratch in there for them. I have also used the block and have things for them to climb on and they take dust baths. What I am wondering about is if...

I can't believe all the great info on this thread! This will be our first winter with the chickens and I have been reading the post and making a list of things to do. After last winter in Michigan I want to make sure we are totally prepared for anything! Thank you all so much!

It's actually my son's nickname. His name is Matthew and his baseball coach nicknamed him Chewy and it stuck! And since these little hen's were his 9th Birthday gift they became Chewy's Chickens.

I just wanted to say Hi, I am a new member but have come to this site over the last few months when needing help for things going on with our Chickens. We got Chickens for my son for his birthday back in March. We have a mix of breeds. I have gotten so much helpful info from these boards, its...