We have a Silver-Laced Wyandotte, 6-week old chick here. This is our third year of ordering 6 'pullets' in the spring. The first two years we got one roo with each order. We think we may have another roo with this year's order. So much for 95% accuracy. Any thoughts on if this little one is a...
A recent order of chicks was botched and I believe we have identified all except for one. Based on our internet search we think that what we thought was going to be an Australorp may be a black sex link. This chick started getting brown feathers on the chest and head. Based on the pictures, can...
Good Evening! I have a question: Is there any way to stop our rooster from attacking our shoes? We inadvertently were given a rooster when we picked up six chicks last April. He's very good with our hens, he likes to eat food out of anyone's hand and he's generally a very good bird, but he...
Our five chickens are just under 7 months old and we are planning on getting another five in the spring. We have just under two acres and the chickens have just started 'migrating' over to a neighbor's yard (we prefer to let the chickens free range during the day). We have decided to put up a...
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We are new to BYC and new to the 'chicken world'. Just over a month ago we picked up six beautiful chicks. Within our flock we have three 'Ameraucanas' or I'm suspecting Easter Eggers. The one pictured is a beautiful silver and black with a different type of comb than the other two (our...
Good Afternoon BYC community! This site has already been very instrumental in helping us to get started with our small flock of backyard chickens. I thought I better join! We have already combed through the coop pages and designed our very own coop and run that we're extremely excited about...