Hello BYC!
I have a teacher friend who's class incubated and hatched eggs (February 14-17 hatch dates, so they're about 10 weeks old) and it's time to send the cockrels back to the farm as they aren't allowed in city limits here.
She has 7 chickens, two are obviously male, but we are...
In our multiple attempts to get our girls set up with a non-frozen food and water for the winter, I found horizontal nipples on a thread here, and they work great! The only problem is the chickens WILL NOT drink from them! They had been using vertical ones, but they leaked.
For several days they...
My introduction is long overdue... I'm on this site daily and have learned SO MUCH and gained confidence from everything everyone has shared - thank you so much for a great community!!!
We picked up our ten chicks on Mother's Day 2016. Our coop was partially finished and knowing how we...