I have limited information at the moment, I've just had this lovely girl given to me because she's a serial brooder. Sure enough she immediately set upon getting to her new home. Fab news for me as I love hatching chocks with a broody. But it's really upsetting me I have no idea what breed she...
I have recently aquired a good 404sqm meter piece of land for my chickens as well as a substantial hutch capable of holding 40 chickens to a high standard. I was very excited about this so naturally I immediately went out and bought another 20 chickens bringing my flock up to 25 birds. Last year...
Hi guys!
Okay bear with me here...
I have a largish flock of ten hens and 7 chicks currently. The mommy hen and her chicks are in a seperate hutch and run inside the main run. I then have two other hutches - one in use and one empty. On top of this I have 4 seperate outdoor nest boxes in the...
Myself and my partner are in need of a broody hen or maybe 2-3! We have one already that is "expected" to go broody, but if you happen to have one go broody on you in the Birmingham (UK) area and you would rather not raise some chicks we will buy the hen from you and let her fully indulge in her...
After building my mega fantastic run complete with see through plastic roofing for the girls. We ran into a few problems one after the other. This is so that perhaps others do not make the same mistakes! :D
Considerations we made while building the run:
Roofing had to be see through...
Okay here is the original thread which started out as a breed check over here:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/938227/i-was-told-this-was-a-light-sussex-true-just-wrong-age
The consensus seems to be she is a light sussex but something is definitely wrong with her and not just a younger...
Before a picture here is the background story:
Okay one of my chickens I got from a local farm - but they didnt raise her they got her from another party. They told me she is a light sussex, large fowl, and she is 16 weeks old on oct 5th so thats around 23weeks now.
She was purchased with...
So this winter was our first with our new run. We used to have a small run and hutch but then we bought more birds and built them a larger area to themselves out of most of the garden.
To our horror we discovered it was a magnet for water. A broken gutter system above it on the house and...
So, since my last post here we've had a few addition to our flock now. Currently we have Light Sussex, Cuckoo Marans, Blue Lace Wynadotte and Rhode Island Red hens.
One light sussex and the cuckoo marans are 2 years old.
The rhode island is 26 weeks
the rest are a mixture of younger birds...
So I saw this a little after i posted asking for my chick breeds so I thought whoops! Better say hi. :)
SO I'll let you guys know a little about myself and hopefully you won't mind me and my chickens.
First off, me and my partner have aspergers, and we are into sustainable living in a big...
So, I have got my own guesses on this, but since it's my first time with chicks I really don't have a clue and would like some opinions. Unfortunately I just can't seem to get pictures of them all properly so here is what i have managed to snap so far. It's a bit higgldy piggldy I'm afraid...