Recently, I've started a little series of pictures that I jokingly refer to as "Dramatic Chicken In Barn" with my 10 month old "twins" Memnoch (male) and Mercury (female). Thought I might share some of them here.
(Memnoch and Mercury are Silver Sebright/Golden Laced Polish mixes...
Hello! So, I found this fellow in my chicken pen yesterday evening when I got home from work. He stayed the night & is still in the backyard now & I figured I should take care of him. Unfortunately for him, I know nothing about peafowl. I barely know anything about chickens since my rooster just...
Hello! My mom surprised me with a year-old hen over the weekend and I just wanted to double check the breed. The seller said she was a Sumatra - I don't have much experience with chickens in general or Sumatras at all. Like I said, wanted to ask the knowledgeable people here to double check. :)...
I have 3 1 month old chicks of breeds that I'm not too familiar with (to be fair, I just started tending chickens in October, so I'm not too familiar with much at this point) and was hoping someone might be able to help me determine what sex they are. If it's not still too early, that is...
Recently, I had to move my flock of 5 (4 hens, 1 rooster) into our barn area because it finally decided to be winter here. With this move, my rooster has started to develop a runny nose and sneezes sometimes. These are the only two symptoms he has (no rattling in his breathing, no lethargy, no...
I know there are a bunch of these already posted and that each one has that really great picture with the bullseye on the yolks, but I'm still not sure if I'm reading my hens eggs right (right up there with reading runes and tea leaves it feels like). So, this is my first time tending chickens...
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My name is Summer and I've fallen into taking care of chickens just this week! A mystery little rooster (that the Internet tells me is a Silver Laced Wyandotte) showed up on my grandparents' front porch last weekend. No one claimed him and he wouldn't leave, so I decided to name him...