Recent content by CrashingPines

Thank you all! My AC died last night. 😢 I do feed layer food. But the majority of their diet is from free ranging

Thank you. Never treated for parasites except dusting coop floor with DE. My first rooster was vaccinated but the Cemani I got from a fellow backyard chicken owner who probably did not.

I lost my flock rooster a couple months ago to a weird, wasting illness. I checked all through these forums and couldn’t find anything described that fit. He was a year old, perfectly healthy and had fathered a clutch of ten eggs that hatched. He suddenly stopped crowing, then seemed lethargic...

She has already laid two eggs, that I know of. She focused intensely on this one chick and wouldn’t tolerate him in the coop. Fine with the others. As far as I know he was okay, but she did peck him.

My broody hatched 10 chicks and had been a devoted, fierce mother up until today. Chicks are nine weeks old and I’ve been letting Mama Sith and her brood free range successfully with the rest of the flock every day for the past week. They are in their own coop at night. Tonight when I gathered...

Hi all, these chicks are 7 weeks old, all hatched by a broody Orpington. Only one (black and white chick) is her own. My rooster is a Buff Brahma. The other eight chicks are full Brahmas and Easter Egger/Brahma crosses. I’d love to know if any ideas can be made on their sex. Their combs seem to...

I’m sorry for your loss! I had read something warning of that and use a chick waterer.

I thought that I read sometime on here that the chipmunk color pattern on an Easter Egger chick indicated a pullet. I hope so.

Really? Can you tell this soon? 😊

Thank you all so much! This morning I moved them all into a dog crate while I cleaned out the “condo.” out of 11 eggs, 10 hatched! I’m amazed.

I had a big learning curve when a young pullet I had purchased last Fall went super broody. This site has been of course a huge help! The hen is an Orpington and began on two eggs, one not her own. So I moved her to her own condo and gave her those, and nine others I had kept on a counter in the...

There has been a sudden loss of eggs lately in my coop. Chickens are fine, not molting. I have a LGD so predators are staying their distance. And he can’t get into the coop and he isn’t an egg thief anyway. But I have many many squirrels. Can they carry eggs away? No broken shells or any other...

There are so many cool breeds and I’ll definitely want more - but for now I have a mixed flock. Buff Brahmas (three hens and a rooster) all nice chickens, raised from mail order chicks. I also have Easter Egger hens raised from Tractor Supply chicks. They’re wonderful, steady blue egg layers and...

I love EE’s. I got four chicks from Tractor Supply last year. All hens now. Beautiful, good layers of blue and green eggs.

My little holding is four acres named for the frequent and terrifying crashing down of giant pine limbs ( despite loads of $ trimming and outright removing.) My first flock is nearly a year old and is composed of a buff Brahms rooster, three same hens and three Easter Eggers. I just added two...