Hello BYC! I usually try not to make a post about the problems I have especially if something like this has happened before with someone in the past but I couldn't dig anything up so I thought maybe someone has had this kind of problem happen before and worked a way through it and had advice or...
Hello BYC, in a recent post I had mentioned about adding new hens, gold laced wyndottes, to our flock of 6, making our total 9. Well now it's been a few weeks since we got them and about a week ago one of our BOs was acting very weird. Wasn't moving very much and had her feathers all fluffed...
Hello BYC! Just yesterday afternoon we bought 3 chickens, GLWs, and we had them in a large dog cage as I know you can't just add them to your flock. Their cage is inside the pin with our other 6 chickens, 3 BOs and 3 BRs. They are all, including the 3 new ones, about 2 years old. When we got to...
Hello BYC! I currently have 6 chickens, all a little over a year old. 3 BOs and 3 BRs. This is the first time we have raised chickens and everything has been going smooth over the past year and some months that we've had them. Well here recently we noticed a Buff started missing her feathers...
Hello! We currently have 6 chickens, 3 SLWs and 3 BOs and here in the past couple of days they have been sitting in their home because we recently got 5-7 inches of snow. We cleared most of the snow so that they could still run around but they still rarely come out, we even have tarps around...
I'm not really sure when I should stop using a heat lamp, I had it turned off for the whole day today and they seemed to just be laying there. I went out tonight (they are in our closed up garage) and they were still just sitting there. I got their water out to re-change it and they hadn't had a...
Hey guys, a friend came over the other day and was going through telling us which ones are females and which ones are males by flipping them on their back in her hand and the ones that pulled up and flapped a little she said were our roosters and the ones that just kind of kept their head down...
Hello everyone, I happened to be looking around for a forum about chickens and I saw a bunch of nice and helpful members here so I thought this would be the place to be. I am brand new to raising chickens and have been reading a book and much more to make sure I am raising my new chicks the...