Hello, So we are in our first year with chickens and have been enjoying the fresh eggs.. We bought them as day olds in early april.. Well just today we let a hen out and she went running as fast as she could to the hay shed and jumped way up to a little nest of her own she has made. There was...
So we just found our Bantam Roo dead under a tree.. It is where they all hang out during the day in the heat.. Rigamortous had kicked in so he had been dead for a while. He was only 4 months old and fiesty yesterday.. No damage could be seen just looked like he layed down there and died...
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First off I just joined today but have been reading for months now.. my Intro with a couple questions is here https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/698652/intro-and-some-questions
WAY surprisingly I got my first eggs yesterday morning. They are only 20 weeks and it has been near 100...
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100% completely new to chickens and farm life even. April 1st me and my wife bought our 5 acres in Central Oregon. April 7th we bought 12 chicks. 2 Barred, 2 Bantys, 2 Ameraucana, 2 Golden Sex links, 2 Brahma, and 2 Rhode Islands.. All from a local ranch store that...