Just brought home these two lovely ladies... The one in the front was ordered as a RIR. Previous owner thinks she might be a wynadotte. I think she's either an EE (puffy cheeks and green legs), or a gold star (her coloring's right). What do you think? Would love your chickeny wisdom. :)
Hi all. I have a small flock of 4 hens. They are all about 9 months old and laying like champs right now. One of my hens, Sweet Cheeks, has some majorly icky diarrhea, it's super runny, mostly very dark green or black and very watery. She's always had sort of runny stools, but it's gotten...
Hi there! I have an urban flock of 4 hens. One started laying about 3 weeks ago, and 2 more started laying in the last few days. When we go out to collect the eggs, one of them is always cracked. It's not a hairline crack, it looks like it got dropped or pecked and it's always on the end...
So this is Sweet Cheeks... I just noticed "her" pointy feathers. "She's" a 7.5 week old EE. No wattles, no bright red comb, no crowing (I have heard some squacky sounds in the AM, but can't pinpoint where they are coming from), just lots of pointy saddle, hackle and tail feathers. What do you...
Hi there! I write a blog every week for Sacramento's CLUCK - campagin for legalizing urban chicken keeping. On Wed I've been doing a coop/urban chicken feature that we call the "chicken wire". I'm looking for URBAN coop and flock photos for use on the blog. The address is...
Hi there! Thought I'd follow up on some earlier posts. : ) For info on CLUCK - campaign for legalizing urban chicken keeping- check out www.eatsacramento.org. We are having a meeting on the 28th at 6:00. Please feel free to convo me if you have any questions! Also, I'm looking for photos...
It's my chicks first night outside in the coop and I'm a nervous wreck! They won't stop chirping their "hey!!! Danger!!!" chirps. Usually I go out move them into the brooder box about now, and they go to sleep, so I think they are trying to get my attention. I put their first brooder box in...
This is Nugget. S/he is supposed to be a pullet, but is almost twice the size of our BO who is the same age. Nugget is almost 5 weeks old his/her comb is just starting to show. What do you think? Is Nugget a girl or a boy and is Nugget a Buff Australorp or a Jersey Giant? Thanks!
Nugget...
I'd like to preface this by saying that I am new to chickens.
I went out to check on our 4 week old chicks tonight after work and noticed that one looked like she was pasting up... I freaked out and ran to get the DH who I insisted take care of the problem right away. He picked up Nugget, our...
All right chicken experts:
We live w/in city limits and don't want to deep litter because of our proximity to our neighbors. Is there a way to keep the yard from getting too stinky and to be able to reap the benefit of the tractor (bugs and weeds gone, chicken poop in soil)?Should we line the...
all right chicken gurus... can you help a newbie out? I brought home 3 almost week old chicks yesterday a little ahead of schedule... I planned to do 6 week old birds, not little guys but totally couldn't resist those chicks. Anyhow, I was doing some reading last night and the chicken book I...
Hi there. I'm starting a city flock a little later than I planned. I'm looking for three ladies and prefer that they be in the 6-8 week range.
Here are the breeds I'm looking for
Orpington
Australorp
Brahma
Delaware
Americauna/easter egger
If you have chicks that are younger, please...
Hey all! I'm near sacramento ca and wanted to say hi! DH and I are going to get a coop together this weekend and hopefully bring some month old pullets home on Monday.