We had a flock of 5, which we have had for several years living happily together - one buff, three Amerucanas and one golden sex. 6 months ago, we woke up to find one of the chickens near death. The vet had no real explanation without expensive testing, but said the girl was very dehydrated...
We have 4 chickens (1 buff orpington and 3 amerucanas), they are all similarly sized. We found our buff orpington cowering in the corner the other day, with the other 3 girls attacking her.
We have 2 food sources on the floor of the coop, and any time the Buff comes down from the roosting box...
Hey all,
We've had chickens for about 5 years now - we keep 5 girls in a fully enclosed 2 level coop, with a run downstairs, and a roost + 2 nesting boxes upstairs.
From time to time over the years we get cracked eggs, and when that happens, I always remember to put out crushed oyster shells...
Hi All!
We have 5 girls in our yard - 4 new this year, and 1 legacy chicken (a survivor of the great raccoon attack of December 2016 :hit). Anyway - I am working on a project to build a planter/roosting structure for the girls - so they can chill out doing the day (they have a decent amount of...
Hi everyone!
We had 3 girls for 2 years, and then last month we had a racoon incident and sadly we only had one chicken left.
We decided to rebuild our flock, and got 4 adorable day old chicks this week, who are chirping away in the garage right now user a heat lamp!
My question to you: how...
Hi All,
This is our first year as BYC stewards - we have 3 girls that we got in February, all ameraucana (Peep, Pumpkin and Pepper!).
They started laying in June or so and by mid-summer they were up to 5 eggs every 2 days or so. As the winter came on, they slowed down, to about 1-2 eggs a...
Hi BYC Family!
We've had our girls for 6 months, and they are happily giving us Eggs every day - a'mazing! But now I have a new challenge.
We clipped their wings recently, using a youtube video as a guide - and that worked really well - but they are still able to "jump" to the roof of their...
Hi y'all!
We are a family living in the city of San Francisco. We've decided to get chickens (3 hens is the current plan) for fresh eggs.
We purchased a kit build coop+run from amazon (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007D8319O?psc=1), which we've assembled.
Now the question we have is this. We...