I am about to have a few silkies hatching soon. I think most will be black and white chicks. One of the hens is a painted so hopefully some will be also. These will have wonderful crests. 3$ a chick, live in central ky. Chicks with large crests are 5$
Hello backyardchickeners.
I'm at three months with my new chicken flock.
I bought several candy corn Polish chicken eggs off ebay. Out of those hatchlings two are beautiful polish with (used to have) nice puffs. Two others that hatched are large, darker colored and looks more like "normal"...
I finally got my chickens in their run/coop. They are 9 weeks old and most of the
Are silkies, 14 birds total. This is their second day in and I am having trouble getting them to climb their ramp. They don't seem to understand it at all. Last night I put them up in their coop by "walking them...
Hi we live right outside of lex ky and we have 6 pekins that need a new home. Four 7 week old ducklings and 2 adults mom and dad of the duckling. We realize ducks aren't for us as we have fox roaming 24/7 and need to keep the ducks In a impenetrable enclosure absolutely no free roaming. It just...
I have 5 week old pekin ducks and I just put them outside. We couldn't stand the smell as they get everything wet and throw their food around and it rots really fast. We put them in a small chicken coop with a plastic box with a hole in the side so they can have shelter but they don't seem to be...
*chip* please help us get out of this plastic box *chirp*
Hi I have 15 chickens as well as 6 ducks that need housing. I am pretty handy but am not very experienced in framing and building with wood, although I have no doubt I could do it. I have been looking at coops and I could probably make...
Basically my poor silkie chick who is only 3 or 4 days old is now plucking her butt fathers. So far I can only tell it is that one chick out of the 15 others. I isolated her and now she is having a fit being away from her friends .
What am I dealing with? Mites or a behavioral thing? What can I...
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I bought 4 pekins and 2 hen chicks at tractor supply during the spring. We took care of them and they grew into happy healthy adults. just a few weeks ago I came home from work and noticed only two...