The other day I noticed that there were alot of boll weevils throughout my bag of chicken scratch. I believe that there is about 25lbs of the scratch left in the bag. I wasn't sure if I should throw away the bag of scratch or is it ok to give it to the chickens still? I know that chickens eat...
Thank you. I give my 3 adult chickens and my rooster all kinds of goodies. I just wasn't sure about my six 19 week old chickens. I thought I read somewhere that you couldn't give chickens anything other than starter/grower feed until they were a certain age. That's good to know.
I appreciate the...
Wow, its been so long since I've been on here. So much has changed. I started raising chickens last spring (2012.) I have learned quite a bit since then. I learned not to buy straight run chicks if you just want hens. I played the guessing game for so long. It turned out that out of the 6 chicks...
Hello, my name is Sandi......I am new to BYC.......like only a few weeks new....last night I was just looking around for pictures of chickens and roosters because I am still having a hard time figuring out the sex of mine......I just happened to see the title of your thread and started to...
#1 Here you can see the green/black tail feathers. They look more black in the 2nd picture, but in the sunlight you can see the greenish color.
#2 This one also has a couple.
#3 This one also has a few on the top tail feather area.
Ok, I went out and got a few more pics. These pics are focused on the body and tail area. Two of the red ones have a couple of black/green feathers on the tail. It was hard to get the camera focused good enough to show them. The picture above shows how this buff colored chicken has like a puffed...