My order of baby chicks coming on Wednesday will be padded with ~8 RIR baby boys. I raise my chickens for eggs, not meat, and therefore have no desire for the boys.
While I realize male chickens are mostly unwanted (even free), I thought I'd give it a shot. If anyone is interested in them...
Most of my chickens are now 22 weeks old, and a few have started to lay eggs. I'm trying to figure out who is laying, short of setting up a camera inside the coop. Most of them I've figured out (I think), but this dark egg is still really confusing to me.
Whoever it is has now laid 6 eggs...
Hatched Feb 18th (so about 3.5 months old).
This guy used to be fairly friendly but has entered his teenager mode. He runs away like a crazy chicken if I try to touch him. *If* I can catch him, he will sit quietly in my lap.
Previously he was challenging the other roosters in the bunch...
First, a little background, then I'll do the 12 questions. I'm a registered vet tech, but no one at my hospital knows about chickens.
About 2.5 weeks ago I noticed one of my d'Uccle bantams (~3 weeks old at the time) falling over sometimes when she walked. At first I thought it was just...
My husband and I live just outside the city of Austin (SW of it), and we just got our first chickens a couple of weeks ago.
I've been stalking the forums for a while, but decided to finally make a profile.
Neither of us has ever owned chickens before, but we're the new parents of 35 new...
These guys are 12 days old in these pictures. I got 2 different assortments (bantam and "rare") at the same time and have spent a lot of time in front of the computer the last 2 weeks comparing pictures to try to get everyone sorted out.
I think I've identified everyone I was sent other than...