Recent content by TheOrrs

Wow. Never thought of cancer. Thanks so much for all of the information and sharing your personal stories. Im silly i guess ill always be sad when i lose one of my chickens. Lots of great caring folks here at BYC. :)

Thank you all soo very very much. I am so heartbroken . I couldn't figure out what was wrong and we were too late to help her. This is our first time raising chickens and were learning as we go......we have suffered a lot of heartache.. ..I guess the hardest part is that I couldn't do anything...

Past week our bantam. 4 months old has been walking funny. Checked her feet no damage. Husband noticed she looked WET especially under one of her wings. everywhere else was fine. Today she was all lethargic and we found her on her death bed in teh coop, with what looked like a 'decaying black...

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How pretty what breed?

We introduced " Bernie" to our 3 month old Bantam and " Bernie" displayed dominant behaviors...pecking at bantam and jumping toward her which kinda makes us think its a rooster?

Updating a few more recent pics. Still probably to early to tell however its interesting to see how the progression in how they change so fast.

Thanks for the welcome! were planning on making a trip tomorrow to hopefully pick up a few more chicks, and get busy building a more permanent coop ! ;)

Hello! Fellow louisvillians here too!!! Husband and I started about two months ago with two bantams, lost one to a racoon and now we have a baby silver laced polish !!

well.. whatever it is..... well just have to keep it anyway its way to attached to us and we are to it!!! LOL

Thanks everyone! Will repost pics....just to be helpful too to others needing info.... they are silver laced polish....so we were told from the seller.....they are soooo sweet we really enjoy.them

The top two brown ones are some type of bantam....I'm thinking the coloring looks like a puncheon.....the bottom fellas are silver lace polish....they are all sweeties!

Sorry for the terrible grammar and typos...!!

Husband wife new to the BYC community and to urban chicken raising.....but loving the journey. Already had two losses :(.. but were still going heres our babies

We sure do love "it" already ....silver laced polish( we were told) any ideas what sex it is? The tall one is the bird in question the little one died :(