We ordered 22 Red Sex Link and 3 Ameracaunas (I know probably Easter Eggers, but Ideal Poultry calls them Ameracaunas).
They are almost 3 weeks old and the sweetest set of birds we've gotten.
One is very interesting. Under the red light we thought it might be a sex-link rooster sent as a...
Our chicken coop arrived today!
It is the largest coop (36 chicken, 8' x 12' x 4') from Ranch Coops out of Quinlan, Texas
It has 4 double nesting boxes with egg doors on each end.
There was a very level spot to put it near but not under a nice oak tree and we only found two spots that we...
Several of my white chicks. I suspect they may be leghorns, which I'm not keen about.
They are active and flighty birds compared to my red chicks.
One of my sweet red girls. Would love to know what breed she and her sisters are.
Their other sister turned into their brother :)
My red...
I got 30 keets today from Ideal Poultry. One was a little worse for wear, but is coming around.
My question is this. Are keets normally so mean to each other?
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There seems to be two sizes to the keets that arrived. About half seem smaller than the other half.
The bigger half are...
Very new to Guinea Fowl and Chickens here.
Only experience was raising guinea fowl as I high school biology project :)
My husband was so anxious to get guineas to combat the pests with the warm season fast approaching.
We ordered the keets we want, but the chickens I want won't be available...
We live on 25 acres in East Texas. We built our house last year. Now that our living arrangements are complete, we are moving on to the "farm" portion. The barn was done last week. The garden was fenced the week before that. Now we are moving on to the chicken yard and coop.
I grew up...