Recent content by JED19

Hello, Our Buff Orpington has gone through her molt this fall (started beginning of October) and now has a bald spot below her vent. The feathers appear to be growing back in some areas and other feathers have been broken off for awhile and are not growing (see photos). She is the dominant hen...

Ugh! We got 5 chickens and we know for sure we have a partridge rock cockerel so looks like we may end up with only two pullets out of the bunch. Much appreciated!

Two chickens in question. The first is an 8-9 week old Dixie rainbow that started crowing recently. Because Minnie, her current name, is huge and is the dominant chicken, we wanted opinions before we decide to re-home her since we can’t have roosters where we live. The second chicken is an 8-9...

My is Jeremy and we live just outside the Portland, OR area. The chicken thing started recently when our two daughters (10 and 14) wanted a pet. We settled on chickens. My wife and I talked about it before, but never followed through. We now have five 8 week old chickens. Two partridge rocks, a...