Yesterday we had a lot of yard work to do so we decided to let the chickies out of the coop. It took a couple hours for them to get used to being able to go where ever they want. At first they wouldn't go more than a foot away from the door with out me being there with them. By the end of the...
I am in need of some help! I saw somewhere that if you hold your chicks when they are a little older you can gently tilt them forward and if they fan out their tails they are female and if the don't they are males. Well when I tried this the first time on what I thought were all pullets to begin...
When I bought these two at the feed store they told me they were Buff chicks... But now one looks like it may be a Red sex link?
And then form the same feed store i bought two yellow chicks. One is starting to look like a Leghorn (maybe?) but this one started to develop little black spots on...
After years and years of wanting my own flock and studying them in school, I came home to three wonderful surprises from my boyfriend! They spent the night in our bathroom (making quite a mess haha) so we could get their "new" brooder (a chick proof pigeon trap) ready for them! We went back to...