I went to check my girls yesterday evening and low and behold in the middle of the coop was my first beautiful egg.
The picture is my egg compared to a store bought large egg. I believe this was possibly laid by one of my Delawares.
I have 9 hens roughly 5 months old (5 Brahmas, 3 Delawares and 1 cochin) everyone had a pretty good molt and seem to have recovered well however I have one brahma who still hasn't grown back her tail feathers and I notice a little blood on one feather.
It looks like it is slowly starting to...
Last Friday I picked up 4 pekin babies and will be adding 2 muscovies in a few days. I searched high and low for a duck starter feed and couldn't find one. I found one store that carried duck grower, but they told me my babies are too young for that, and sold me the purina flockraiser. My...
Looking for a trio, or close to that, of pekin ducklings. We're located in Chesterton, Indiana can travel reasonable amount. Straight run ok. Just let me know price.
So my chicks are 5 weeks and 6 weeks old. I've been trying to offer them new foods/treats and their just not having it. They like when I throw handfuls of fresh grass in their run along with some organic romaine I'm growing. So I gave them cucumber skins and cucumber slices and they wouldn't...
I just noticed this today, it's very small and just on one side of the lower beak but it's bright red, I don't think I see one on the other side.
This is also the chick that I thought was a male so is it possible he is starting to show male characteristics? It's a hatchery buff brahma.
Ok my babies are now 3 weeks and almost 4 weeks old. My 4 week old brahmas are doing great, although I'm still fairly certain I have one roo in the mix. Anyways we have some delawares, 4 of them, who are 3 weeks old. There is one who is extremely small, at first we didn't think anything of it...
So my batch of 5 buff brahma pullets came in Monday and right away I noticed one looked different. I wing sexed them after unpacking and it seems I may have gotten one male. Do you report it to the hatchery for reimbursement or will they say "to bad so sad we're only 95% accurate." It's just I...
So my flock will be predominantly brahmas, with possibly 2 australorps(as long as they are both females). We will have a total of 6 hens. I love brahmas so I don't care how many eggs they produce but I was just curious people's experience with them. I read they lay about 3 a week, so more than...
I just got my first batch of baby chicks, they came home a week ago. Last night I switched them over to pine shavings(they had been on paper towels previously), they are very light and small shavings which is all I could find in the 3 stores I went to. Now they are constantly picking...
So I'm in the process of building my very first chicken coop it's 5x4. This is just the beginning, after about 5 hours of work, I'm hoping to have it done in a few weeks. Tomorrow I will be painting the inside and we will be putting in the ventilation and windows. We are building this from...
So this is my first attempt at chicken raising and I ordered my babies (5 buff brahmas) to be delivered beginning of May. Now I have been told this is late in the season to be ordering chicks, especially my specific breed. I estimated they would start laying around 6 months (November) but with...
I am located in northwest indiana and have been considering buying a few chickens for a few years and this year we finally did it. We ordered our chicks (5 buff brahmas) from a local feed store and they are set to be delivered around May 2nd. I was hoping to get them a little earlier but this...