We are not sure what else to do. One of our RIR has been sick for a while now.
We initially thought that she might have been broody as she was staying on the nest. Then after about a week we noticed she wasn't looking to well and had lots of nasty poop on her bottom and started to wonder if...
We live in southwestern Washington and I would much rather rehome this guy then to slaughter him. Right now I am just looking to see if there is an interest in him. We will decide by the weekend if he stays or goes.
I don't know what to do. We live in the country, moved here to do what we are in building a homestead. We have a rooster and 9 hens. The rooster is a crower who is waking up our neighbor (a day sleeper.) He says he has foam in his windows, fans on, you name it. This morning was the second...
I have no idea what is wrong everyone seamed fine yesterday.
I was late getting out to our 7 weekish old chicks this morning they had run out of water, I filled them up and everyone came running over.
I have one that is kinda shaking and it looks like a shiver. That same ones crop feels...
As I had mentioned a while ago we have two newbies that we will be adding to our flock when they get big enough. A friend of ours got 3 chicks as well so we decided that we would keep them all together until they got older (I am thinking until they are 2-3 months) Our friends had them until...
I am so excited! We just got two chicks that we will add to our current flock of 5 but until they are old enough they are going to need a coop of their own.
Well look at what I just got for free...
Let the building begin!
Well I guess really I need to make a final decision on what coop...
Here is one of our girls, she was all black as a chick and my hubbies favorite. From everything that I have seen I am guessing that she is an Easter Egger. Do you agree?
So I have been reading about adding our new chicks to our current flock. I do not plan on adding them right now but trying to figure out when and how to add them the most peacefully as can be done with chickens.
So our current flock is 5 hens that are this springs chicks, about 27 - 28 weeks...
We just picked up two chicks to add to our current flock of 5. One is a barred rock and we are not sure what the other one is. They are just getting tail feathers. They are currently at a friends house who also got chicks from the same place and I just want to hold them.
Any ideas on the...
I posted the other day about a hen we have that has been keeping to herself. Well tonight we went to lock up the coop and she was on the top fussing. We took her down and checked her out, nothing we can see is wrong. When we put her in the coop the rooster goes for her so I scared him off...
We are new to chickens and have our first flock of 6. 4 RIR's and 2 Americanas (one the Americanas is a rooster.)
We have had them all since they where couple days old, not had any problems that have stood out to us. One of our reds is suddenly always trying to escape, or will sit on top the...