I just added 3 standards and one bantam to my flock of 10 standards last Sunday. Naturally there has been some fighting but the chickens have shared a fence for years so its gone quite smoothly. However this morning I found the bantam (Olivia) had a patch of skin missing on her neck. She seems...
Hi. I have 3 Easter eggers and 1 gold laced Wyandotte that are all 3 years old. I am trying to get rid of them because I need more room in my coop and I don't know if they will lay next year (they have all stopped for the winter). I live in the country outside of Wilsonville and would prefer to...
I am looking for a hen to buy for fun. She can be expensive but not too much more than $100. She needs to be a really pretty hen that doesn't fly too much either. I also don't want a bantam. Any one have any ideas of pretty breeds that I should check out?
So I got a little blue egg on Saturday. My "chicks" are about 14 weeks old give a little I have 2 sex links, 1 cuckoo maran, 1 barred ock and a "giant cochin". The egg I found was small and my Americana and auricanas normally lay more greenish eggs so I thought it must be my giant cochin because...
So my 3 year old golden sex link is sick again. The first time she stopped laying eggs and was a little lethargic but she had no problem eating and drinking. (I call her the pig) I had chicks so I started giving her medicated chick food (As often as I could but she still was having her normal...
I have bought two batches of chicks from a store before but I've never had eggs before. I'm thinking about ordering 12 ayam cemani eggs and giving them to my hens to raise but I have no experience with hens laying on eggs or with shipping eggs. I want to know if this is a bad or good idea or if...
I just joined and someone said to introduce myself and my chicks so here it goes: My name is Daisy, I live in Oregon, I am 15 and I have 10 chickens. 5 of my chickens are around 3 years old they are: Carl (I got her from my aunt... apparently my uncle forgot she was a hen when he named her and...