My guess for the black chickens breed would either be a Jersey Giant or a Black Australorp. Once it gets older you can decided since a Jersey Giant would stand much taller.
I have this hen who sits on the eggs all day long and appears to be broody(puffs up and growls when approached) but at night is going into the roost, leaving the eggs behind. It's very early in the cycle and I was wondering if this is normal or if this hen isn't broody at all and I need to...
im trying to figure out the max number of chickens we can have on our 1.86 acre property. I know that we are aloud to have poultry on this land im just not sure how many cause reading through all this stuff online is kinda of fuzzy. We currently have 13 chickens and im curious if we can expand...
Well he it passed away during the night, his feet looked to be normal, im hoping he was just a runt. I'll keep a close eye on all the other chicks for any similar symptons. The ill chick was a lot smaller than the others.
i have a total of 27 chicks that are 4 days old. One of the cornish chicks is very sleepy and has slow breathing. Its been doing this for the past 8 hours now and isnt very responsive when pecked at by the other chicks. walks VERY slowly if does walk at all and only goes a few inches before...
trying to get an idea on the best demsions for a heavy bread of chicken such as brahma's and wydonettes, also while were at it whats the smallest door size i can make for the chickens to get out into there run? Thank you
what would be the best design for making cleaning the floor of a chicken coop easier. I was thinking of maybe a floorboard that i could slide out and clean or somthing or maybe 1 inch spacing in floor the floor boards the droppings could drop down through the cracks?? any good ideas????
I plan on getting chickens this spring and im not sure whether or not to vaccinate them? I plan on ordering them from murray mcmurrays chicken hatchery. also there has never been any chickens on our property, is there a need for vaccines for mareks disease and new castle and such chicken...
would 10 full sized chickens be able to live in a coop that was 20 square feet with a fenced in area for them to roam which was 125+ square feet.... Trying to figue out demesions for my coop.
i got to wandering over the pass couple days how many chicks per year i could get with 5 RIR hens(hens being at there peak production off eggs) and 1 RIR rooster. This would be with lighting during the winter, and i would put fertilized eggs in an incubator during the cold months... Any ideas on...