Our chickens are 21 weeks old we have 2 roos and 19 hens. This past week or so the dominant roo started trying to mate with the hens. Some of the girls will let him and some fight and scream bloody murder. If they are letting him on them does it mean they are gonna start laying soon? I have...
Well, our flock got off to a rough start. With sick chickens, chickens smothering each other in their sleep, and most recently a double dog attack.. we gave lost maybe half our chickens. Now down to 22 we have finally gotten them to roost instead of sleep in a pile in the corner and got the...
We have lost a few chickens and I am not sure what is wrong with them.
They act all lethargic and won't eat or drink and get big globs of poo on their bottoms. I clean the poo off and they just lay there then they are dead the next day. This all happens in a day or two.
They have been eating...
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I have these chickens we got from a guy who said we go icelandic blue chickens and some others mixed in. I don't know what any of them are.
Pic#1 is shiny black chickens 2 hens and a rooster. They have a green sheen on their feathers and the rooster has red through his in places...
That pile of feathers is 42 chickens... they have perfectly good perches in the shed but choose to lay on the ground in a hot wet mass. Is there a way to teach them to sleep on the perches? I have picked them up when they are asleep and set them on the perch but they just hop down and climb back...
I have some pure white chickens about 7 weeks old and some have yellow legs and some have green legs
I couldn't get a better pick of the yellow legged chickens... they look the same as the green legs just yellow.
These are all EE right? Is it possible to get pure Ameraucana chickens with EE...
Dose any one know what kind of chickens these could be? We bought silver laced wyandottes and "Ameraucanas" though we may have EEs. We got some icelandic chickens from a local farmer but there could be some other breeds with them.
could these be a different kind of wyandotte or something...
I have a sorta gray and buff chicken with a mohawk... our chicks were Silver Laced Wyandottes, Ameraucanas, and so called "Icelandic Blues" anyone know what this is?
I also have two chicks that seem to be really slow at getting their feathers. Is that normal? All our chicks are pretty much...
Hello from Iowa! We have been trying to raise chickens for a couple years now and it always ended in disaster. cwe have ordered chicks from Metzer Farms Hatchery twice and bought grown laying hens once. When we got chicks they would grow up but never lay eggs and then my husband or I would...