Search results for query: *

  • Users: Bawkinghen
  • Content: Threads
  • Order by date
  1. Bawkinghen

    The beginnings of a second coop...so far mostly upcycled.

    So, our first coop (the clean coops daisy design that you can see in these pics) was quite expensive to build, but I also think we needed the plans and to follow it exactly to feel like we knew what we are doing. Now, we are adding another coop for our newest flock members and have designed it...
  2. Bawkinghen

    9 week old Black Copper Marans...gender guesses please.

    These chicks are about 9 weeks old now. Any guesses on gender? I am hoping for at least one hen. Please please please!
  3. Bawkinghen

    Barred Rocks with no bars?

    This barred rock is over two weeks old now, along with her sister who looks almost identical (got them from the feed store). Problem is, their feathers re growing in totally back. Everybody else's barred rocks at this age that I've seen are already starting to look like barred rocks. Am I...
  4. Bawkinghen

    4 Week old BCM gender and a WTH happened Polish question.

    So, first up, I have a couple 4 week old Black Copper Marans. I was hoping they were both girls a couple weeks ago when I got them because at 2 weeks old there was one chick in the batch who already had a big, bright red comb already. But, now that they're two weeks older I have a feeling that...
  5. Bawkinghen

    3 week old polish chick with "perfect hair" :)

    I just can't get enough of this chick. I bought 4 buff laced polish last week at 2 weeks old and for some reason this one has the fullest head of feathers already. I don't think she could possibly fit another feather in there...and they are so thick. The others still look kinda scraggly. We...
  6. Bawkinghen

    One chicken losing feathers, but still laying regularly.

    I have an EE about 14 months old who I have noticed is losing feathers on the base of her tail (where it meets her back) and all under her neck. Her neck looks quite bare, actually. She is the only one and she's still laying just fine, which tells me she's not molting and I don't think she has...
  7. Bawkinghen

    Buff laced polish with a BLACK feather?

    I just got 4 buff laced polish chicks at 2 weeks old last week. Two are frizzles...super cute. I noticed this one had a tiny light gray spot in its fluff on the back of its head. Now its crest feathers are coming in and it looks like it is going to have a BLACK feather on the back of its head. I...
  8. Bawkinghen

    Chicken waterer nipples getting clogged?

    Has anyone had an issue with their waterer nipples getting clogged before? I have a five gallon bucket with the nipples screwed into the bottom and just the other day we had noticed our egg production had dropped off and I, by chance, discovered that the nipples were not letting any water out...
  9. Bawkinghen

    12 eggs from 12 hens! 23 weeks old

    I'm sure that someone layed two today because I have two Easter eggers and one of them is not squatting and I'm still only getting one blue egg and the rest brown and white. But, at weeks start we were getting 7/8 eggs per day and now today, 12!!! Unless my little weirdo buff orpington mutt...
  10. Bawkinghen

    Silly chickens...

    So, we have 12 hens in a coop with 6 nesting boxes. And, as I've heard is normal, they ALL want to use the same box. Don't know why, they will even pile on top of each other and lay on top of each other in it. Weirdos... Anyways, my question for those more experienced is, is it normal for a...
  11. Bawkinghen

    A runt chicken

    Meet Buff. She's supposedly a Buff Orpington, but after posting a pic of her a while back next to my other buff Orpington, I'm pretty sure she is mixed with something other than that. But besides her yellow feet that make her not likely a buff Orpington, I'm now getting really concerned about...
  12. Bawkinghen

    Chickens pecking me!

    Is there a way to teach the chickens not to peck me all over when I bring them treats. I try to hand out treats to each one when I come in and some of the more dominant hens will sneak up and peck me because they think I should only give treats to them. And I mean they will peck me hard on the...
  13. Bawkinghen

    First eggs have stopped?

    I'm new to chicken raising this year. I have 12 hens that are 18 weeks old. Last week we got our first little egg, the next day none and then one tiny egg every day for the next 4 days. Now, it has been 2 days with no eggs. I'm not positive on who has been laying, but I'm pretty sure it is...
  14. Bawkinghen

    8 chickens sleeping in one nesting box?

    Hi, still new here. We have 12 pullets that are about 12 weeks old now. Chicken behavior is completely baffling to me, so I'm not sure if this is normal, but 8 of my chickens are coming into the henhouse for the night and piling on top of each other in one little 12"X18" nesting box. The...
  15. Bawkinghen

    Is this a Buff Orpington?

    So, I got both of these chicks on the same day from the same batch of Buff Orpingtons at Family Farm and Home. One looks like all the Buff Orpingtons I have seen online and one looks kinda strange. She is small, her tail turns down like a duck, she has yellow legs and her neck is really short...
  16. Bawkinghen

    Hello from Michigan!

    Hi everyone! My name is Siobhan and I live in Southern Michigan. I am originally from the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia though. Michigan is still somewhat new to me after 6 years. My husband and I just bought our little 2 acre dream homestead in the country last fall and a couple months ago we...
Back
Top Bottom