i have a weird question and i have already posted this in the ..where are you... oregon... area but i wasnt sure where to post this at really. but i am looking for someone who will come to my home and go over my flock and coop (check for mites, look at their poop to look for any signs of, well...
I have a almost three week old red sex link. I have never had one this young and don't know if it's normal or if it's a great way to tell the sex or not. On both legs on the back there is a little bump... I am thinking they are spurs. This is only my second time having chicks and I don't think I...
One of my 20 week old leghorns head is torn open and i don't know what to do. i don't have "chicken medicine" and i have never had to deal with anything like this and i would rather not cull it
Its hard to tell since she is the bottom of the pecking order and has missing feathers, besides everyone is molting so that doesn't help any.
She lays the biggest eggs of any other chicken in my flock and she is on the older end i think closer to 5-6 years.
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My fingers, toes, arms and legs are all crossed. We have a broody BR! There hasn't been a successful broody chicken here in quite a few years I'm told.
Just last month one went broody and stayed broody for the whole time. however she got up to much and only one egg made it half way. As...
I'm afraid to candle the eggs, its really hard to get my chickens to go and to stay broody I'm afraid that if i disturb the eggs she will decide she has stayed on them long enough and get up and leave. i don't have any access to a incubator. she has been sitting on them for 6 or 7 days now (of...
This is my first time raising babies my aunt and grandma raised all the grown ups that we have right now. Neither of them remember how old the chicks were when they let them out with the rest.
I have eight 6 week old chicks and was wondering if it was to early to put them out with the big...
my 4 to 5 week old ameraucana chick is making a crowing motion with no noise. does that mean it is a rooster? the chick is also growing at a faster rate then the other chicks that are the same age.
this picture is about 3-4 days old but it is the gray/ white one staring at the camera
Hello :) I'm about 35 minutes west of Portland. I want to expand the breeds of chickens we have and was looking at some feather footed chickens. However, during the spring the run gets so muddy. We do throw grass clippings in there when it gets super bad but eventually they scratch at it so much...
hello, i am newer to raising chickens. i recently moved in with my grandparents as well as a few aunts and uncles and took over caring for the chickens. we have a mixed flock of 24 mostly laying chickens we are only getting 9-14 eggs a day, 1 rooster and 8 chicks 4 leghorns and 4 Americana's. i...