She walks and perches and scratches bedding just fine, but her legs have turned blue gray. She is a delaware, and her feet used to be orange. What is going on with this chick?
How old do chicks have to get to be able to do the following:
perch
eat vegetables and fruits like lettuce, corn, grapes, etc.
forage outside for the first time
fly several feet
be trained (I'll go into detail on this later)
stay in an outdoor coop (warm climate)
eat dried corn, not cracked...
My chicks always peck at my freckles. I have 3 freckles on the arm that I always reach in to play with them with, and they climb up on my hand and peck at them. It's actually very cute. Am I the only one with freckle-pecky chicks?
One of my chicks pasted up overnight, and when i woke up it was really bad. I tried to wash it out with water, but that didn't work. Then I tried pulling out the poop and got a bit of it out but the chick complained loudly, so i tried to cut it out of her feathers with scissors, which was...
Hey, BYC. Post pics of your chickens here and tell us their names! I think of chickens as family and I name all of mine. Cool names, aptly named chickens, or stories about how your chickens got their names, please!
I will start with a story.
I started by hatching 3 EE eggs. One hatched...
Hey, BYC. I was wondering if anyone happened to have a wellie + marans hybrid. I've heard that the hybrids are really sweet and excellent layers of chocolate brown eggs. Cool, thanks.
I'm new to the site and sort of new to chickens. One of my friends had a sick relative out of state, so I took care of her three newly hatched chicks for a week, from 1 to 7 days old. I now visit them weekly and they are now almost fully feathered. I also ordered 3 day old chicks from...