Recent content by JefferyEarl

I have RIR cross silkie They are 3 months old now and look like full grown birds now. Am I able to tell who the boys are and the girls from there combs?

What?! If you have roaster and laying hens together how would you keep them eating separately

Thank you I do belive I have done an introduction when I first joined tho :)

Thank you. How do I start a new thread

I know this probably not the spot to post this question.... So I have a bunch of chicks that have hatched at different times. All with in the last 3 and half weeks. I have them on a medicaded chick starter to protect them from diarrhea at the moment. Could I keep them on the chick starter till...

How often do they molt?

Another question for you. I always get an egg that looks like the pic I uploaded. Suspect it's the same hen who is bald on her bottom some reason the feathers won't grow back.

There is a sticky here that says to do the float test to see if eggs are viable. There is so much conflicting things in here. Can chickens lay bad eggs?

Pls help! I'm very new at this and am devastated with what has happened this morning.... I read here somewhere that you can do a float test to see if there are any duds in with her other eggs. We have 4 chicks now and nothing has hatched in the last 4 days. So I removed the sinkers thinking...

Thank you all for welcoming and kind words :)

Hello everyone! My name is Jeff and I live in southern ontario Canada. In a small community north of Hamilton. I moved into a new place this past winter that already had a chicken coop. I started with 6 road island reds then a few weeks later added 5 more. Short there after I got a pure white...