Today my chickens are 13 weeks old. I started with 10. Two died within the first couple days. They were small and weak and some of you might have been able to save them, but I am new to chickens and didn't have the knowledge or probably the time to spend nursing them back to health. Of the 4...
I bought 4 pullet Orpingtons and 4 straight-run bantams from Tractor Supply. I took these pictures yesterday, and they were 5 weeks old on Monday. Any idea what the smaller ones are (breed/sex)?
In the above picture the third and fourth chicks are a couple of the pullet Orpingtons.
Howdy folk!
I was doing some genealogy and realized just how very many of my ancestors were farmers, and decided to get some chickens for my backyard. I ran down to Tractor Supply and got 6 bantam straight-run (2 died within 2 days, one was really small and I think he was just going to die...