I have two Silver laced Wyendottes that are a little over a year old now and got two Rhode Island reds this spring. The RIR's are now about four months old and for the last four days I've been putting them all in a large-ish dog kennel (approx. 5'x10') in preparation for putting them in the...
Actually their not really chicks anymore, but it rhymed. The silver laced Wyendottes are a little over a year old and the Rhode Island reds are about four months old. I've been putting them all in a large dog kennel during the day so they can get used to each other before I put them all in the...
Well, my RIR chicks are about ready to make the move to their permanent home. This is the first time I've added chicks to a pen with grown chickens. I don't have another pen that I can put them in next to the chicken tractor. I have them in a laundry basket with a hardware cloth top on it. I...
The fam and I started a small backyard flock this spring and got 3 "pullets" from the feed store. Well, we had suspicions (like the growing ever longer tail feathers) that one of these things is not like the others...long story short, he started crowing this morning. While we thought it was...