Search results for query: *

  1. MissouriChick

    Disease or molting that went bad?

    I have about three laying hens that have horrible bare spots on their backs. I know that, for the first one at least, it was a spot created by one of our roosters being overly friendly. Well, those roosters are long gone and now I have at least two other hens who have developed the same bald...
  2. MissouriChick

    What to do with frostbite?

    Well, I have a Rhode Island Red rooster who seems to have gotten frostbite on his tall comb. The tips are black so I'm assuming that is what happened. Do I have to do anything about it? Will leaving it alone cause problems? I can't imagine clipping it off as this rooster is the meanest thing...
  3. MissouriChick

    Desperate for suggestions

    We have gotten ourselves into a situation where we will be out of town from Saturday morning through Sunday night and we don't have anyone to look after our chickens. What would you do if you had to leave your chickens (36 of them) for 36 hours and they weren't going to be checked on during...
  4. MissouriChick

    found eggs

    I just posted another question a few minutes ago. I've got a lot of questions.... So, my hens just started laying and I'm working on improving their nesting boxes so that they can have a cleaner and easier to access place to lay their eggs. Today, when snooping around my chicken area, I found...
  5. MissouriChick

    will I totally confuse my hens?

    The nesting boxes that we put into our coop were quickly adopted as sleeping quarters for many of our chickens. Now, just in the last week, my chickens have begun to lay eggs. Fortunately, they are not laying them in the nasty "nesting boxes", which are full of poop but they are laying them on...
  6. MissouriChick

    electric fence and fox

    well, we have an electric fence up, it's just not hot yet b/c I ordered the wrong kind of charger. The fence is working to keep our chickens in (for the most part--some are still able to squeeze through the squares somehow!). Well, the solar charger is ordered and on its way but in the...
  7. MissouriChick

    really stupid question

    If you keep hens and roosters together (in the right proportions), once the hens start laying eggs, how do you know whether they are fertilized or not. Does it even matter if you collect them everyday? Is eating fertilized eggs bad? I know I should know this stuff and I should probably just...
  8. MissouriChick

    flys

    I'm new to all of this so bear with me. I was feeling really good about myself, thinking that all of my caretaking practices was keeping our coop and run amazingly free from odor and annoying pests. Then this week hit with VERY hot temperatures and suddenly there are flies everywhere! Does the...
  9. MissouriChick

    Cleaning feeders/waterers

    I was curious as to what kind of brushes you all use to scrub your feeders/waterers? I got this thinish brush that you can use to scrub your grout with, thinking that it would be good for the tight areas but the bristles are too rigid and it takes forever to get the bigger areas really clean...
  10. MissouriChick

    Tell me the truth about hatcheries, please

    My husband and I just watched a fascinating documentary on PBS the other night titled The Natural History of the Chicken. It was very interesting, in so many ways, and it truly went from the ridiculous to the sublime. They actually have it on YouTube if you're interested. There were parts...
  11. MissouriChick

    Storms and chick safety

    We've had a couple of days of severe weather around here and since my chicks are ranging freely during the day, they have inevitably been caught in the rain. My question is this, if they have access to their coop via their little chicken door but they are outside, huddling under their coop with...
  12. MissouriChick

    Could this be a Buff Orpington?

    I hope that you can see the shading in this picture. This was my favorite baby chick. He/she was the yummiest pale brown, not yellow like a lot of the others. As it has grown, it filled in with "white" feathers but they always seemed tinted to me. Now, it seems whitish on the bottom but all...
  13. MissouriChick

    Eating feathers?

    Is it okay for my chicks to be eating the feathers of other chicks that have fallen out? They are not pecking them off one another, just picking up ones that are on the ground and running around with them in their mouth like they are a prize. Is this a problem?
  14. MissouriChick

    Very weird chicken dream

    Well, I don't know about anybody else but ever since I got my new chicks a month ago I have dreamed about them constantly. I know it's just because this is new and my brain is trying to work out everything that I need to do to take care of them and to absorb so much new information (thanks to...
  15. MissouriChick

    Organic feed

    To claim that your chickens are "organic", what exactly is required? Organic feed? Particular grit? If I feed my chicks DuMor chick starter (non-medicated) but then switch to something more "natural" later on, would they still be considered "organically raised"? I'm not trying to be certified...
  16. MissouriChick

    what could it be?

    What kind of breed would be a very very light peach color that you only really notice when it is next to truly white birds? It looks very much like my White Wyandottes (what I've determined myself, not 100% sure but pretty sure) in terms of plumpness, amount of feathering, etc. It's just that...
  17. MissouriChick

    A chick that can't make sound?

    I've noticed that one of my 3 1/2 week old chicks does this thing where he/she opens his mouth as if to "cluck", even sticks its head forward a bit, and then closes its mouth again. It really looks like it is trying to make noise but nothing will come out. The only other idea that I had was...
  18. MissouriChick

    Deep litter system

    I've decided to use the deep litter system for my chicks/chickens, but I've got a question. When stirring the bedding, are you supposed to just stir the top of the bedding to keep it from being matted down or are you supposed to go down deep when you stir? I've just been breaking up the top...
  19. MissouriChick

    Hello from middle Missouri

    Hello everyone. I'm new to the forum and to chicks. We got 50 chicks two weeks ago and what an adventure it is! My two boys are excited for them to grow up. My youngest "can't wait to be woken up by a rooster!" We'll see how he feels about that in a couple of months! We have recently moved...
  20. MissouriChick

    New to the Forum and to Chicks--anyone want to guess about these?

    Hello everyone. This is my very first post. I've been lurking for awhile as I prepared to get my chicks and now that I've had them for almost two weeks. Since this thread exists, I thought that I would throw my pictures into the mix and see if anyone had any ideas about these boys and girls...
Back
Top Bottom