First birds this year. 8 weeks into the experience and love it! Anyone else in the area to meet up, trade insights, see each other's coops, and potentially trade chicken-sitting on vacations?
My flock: 4 regular sized birds (though if 2 are males like I think they are, it'll be 2 regular...
For my first foray into chickens, I bought 4 chicks: Black Australorp, Golden Lace Wyandotte, Production Red, and Black Sex Links.
They were sex-ed runs, so I know I had a 90/90/90/100 chance of females. I think the first two are males, but I'm inexperienced. They're bigger, but that could...
New to chickens. I have 4 6-day-old chicks: 1each Golden Lace Wyandotte, Production Red Black Sex Links, Black Australorp. I know handling them is good. I pick them up several times a day. They're not used to me yet, but we'll get there.
My question: Do chickens have favorite ways to be...