I bought 6 pullets and all are growing fine and are all the exact same age except for one chicken already has a comb. It doesn't act different than any of the others but I wanted to know if anyone could tell if it was a rooster?
I have 3 white Plymouth Rock hens in an enclosed run/coop who all lay brown eggs. 1 has been laying for about a year, the other 2 started fairly recently (past 3 months). I went out to feed and collect their eggs today and 2 were normal and brown, the other was a bright white egg which had been...
So last night was our first real gust of winter. Our youngest spring hen didn't make it to the coop fast enough and froze.
With Thanksgiving approaching and this being the first chicken that we've ever killed, it is safe to process it and eat it?
She froze fairly solid, should I toss her out...
I'm a new chicken owner and we just put the chicks out in thier coop today. And as I expected my Dachshund will stop at nothing to get to the chickens. We went to the store and got a shock collar to try that. Total bust! It didn't even make him pause! It was set on the highest level it could go...
I'm a new chicken owner and we just put the chicks out in thier coop today. And as I expected my Dachshund will stop at nothing to get to the chickens. We went to the store and got a shock collar to try that. Total bust! It didn't even make him pause! It was set on the highest level it could go...
I have two week old chicks from TSC and I was womdering what I could do to help make the transition to outside easier for them. I know to wait until the feather out but I want to start exposing them. My chicks seem to look at nature like it's a scary. Of course I understand they're babies and...
So I recently got 4 red pullets (all are Golden Comets) from my local TSC. These select chick were older by 2 weeks and on discount so I bought them instead of the younger ones. Well I recently moved them into a bigger brooder so they could have more space. And almost as soon as I did they...