I have a case of instant oatmeal & I wanted to know if feeding it to my chickens is safe. I've read some other posts about this, but I'm still not sure. Can it be given straight out of the package or should it be cooked 1st? The other posts mentioned oatmeal from the feed store, but what I...
We have 4 Leghorns & they are about 4mths old. Today, my daughter found our 1st egg. It was cracked & she said our hen, Butters had pecked at it til it broke. It was slightly soft, but well formed. A few hours later, she found another egg, but it was half the size of the 1st one, tan in color...
This is one of my in-law's chickens (foreground) & none of us is sure what it is or if it's a rooster or a hen. It's about 2-3 mths old. (Sorry for the poor pics.) Any help would be greatly appreciated.
This is our 3mth old rooster, Queenie. (We named him, before we found out he was a rooster.) We purchased him at The Tractor Supply Store & were under the impression he was a Sicilian Buttercup. As he got older, we realized he wasn't a Buttercup. After much internet research, we wondered if...
Hi, we are new to raising chickens and on 4-3 we got our 6 babies. We got 4 Leghorns, 1 Bantam, & 1 Buttercup. They all got along fine until 2 days ago, when the Bantam & Buttercup starting fighting. We separated them & have had no success in putting them back together. We were hoping we had...