Hey guys, it's been years since I have been on here(when I first started chicken keeping) and I have now moved on too ducks!. I have 3 Pekin and 3 khaki cambell ducklings. We have two large ponds in our backyard that we want to use as a home for the ducks. I was thinking about a safe predator...
Hi guys. It's been a long time scince I've posted anything but I have had a great time with chickens. 2 weeks ago my leghorn went broody. We gave her 9 eggs to hatch. About a week ago one of our silkie went broody. She kept trying to sit but we were removing the eggs scince we already had a...
Hi there. It's been a while since I've last posted but I have had some problems recently. My Mille fluer hen seems to have injured here left leg. Long story short she and her "sister" were inseparable best friends who did everything together. The sibling died out of the blue a month from today...
I have chickens at 7 months old the silkie layed its first egg. It is the second chicken of mine thatbhas layed an egg yet. My leghorn was first. Still no eggs out of my 2 belgian bearded duccles and my barred rock bantam i just find it surprising!
Hey guys as you all know winter is coming and the snow will soon fall.. It should weve been having awfuly weird weather.
I am a first year for chickens and my flock of 11 bantam chickens consists of 6 silkies 2 duccles a barred rock a brahma and a leghorn. The leghorn is the only normal size...
Hey guys just thinking out a thought here.I was wondering if chickens are capable of going wild. While i know there a feral chickens in citys and islands such as in california and florida or hawaii but i was wondering could theoreticly chickens adapt to a lifestyle to that of a turkey in say a...
Hey guys as you all know not to much long until another long cold winter. Especialy if you live up north!
We have a small store bought coop. We were getting our first chickens and went with a small store bought coop. Lets say it went better than previously thought so now that there here to...
Hey guys! I recently discovered a new app for photoshop. I would like to share my skills with you guys. If you upload a photo of your chickens i can download it then photoshop it and repost it for you guys! Anyone interested its free!! Ill do other animals to!!
Here are some examples of my...
Hey guys! I recently discovered a new app for photoshop. I would like to share my skills with you guys. If you upload a photo of your chickens i can download it then photoshop it and repost it for you guys! Anyone interested its free!! Ill do other animals to!!
Here are some examples of my...
Hello there. I have never owned a pidgeon but have always been fascinated by them. I know people selectively breed them and it seems there are more varieties than alot of things. I was just theoriticly wondering is it possible to breed a pidgeon to look like the now extinct passenger pidgeon...
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Ive been on this site for about six months but never introduced myself. I own a small flock of chickens. I raised all of the money in order to build the coop and take care of my chickens. No help from anyone.I worked for all of the money myself and did all the research myself. All of my...
I have 14 bantams of various breeds and have a large yard to allow them to roam.. 20+ acres!! Its a family owned lot so we basicly own the entire street! We have variouse trees and other structures as well as several acres of hedge rows as well as lots of short grass and shrubs woods and a pond...
My little bantam mottled cochin is 12 weeks old. He has tiny waddles and a tiny comb but still. Shows alot of female charactoristics what do you guys think? Any help would be gladly appreciated
I have 8 week old chicks and have 4 more coming. Will there be many problems mixing these 2 groups of chicks because of the week age difference? Both groups are bantams of that says anything and while most are growing a few of them still seem simmilar size to when. I got them
I am wondering if there is any other foods i can give young baby chicks. I have several 3 day old banties. I have herd you can give them scrambled eggs yogurt and lettuce but wasnt sure does anyone have any suggjestions?
I recently got 8 day ol baby bantam chicks. I was wondering how long aproxamently until i can move them outside. I am also wondering if anyone has experiance with free ranging bantams and is it a death sentance tp them or not? :hu
I recently just got my first set of chicks today from meyer hatchery. All of them are acting normal except one.. She is not very respinsive and just sits there making quiet chirping noises.. She wont move and wont drink unless i dip her beak in water. No matter what i do she wont drink..she is a...
I have ordered 10 straight run bantams of various breeds. I was wondering if it would be a problem with multiple roosters scince straight run was the only available sex selection i ordered mainly docial breeds suck as plymouth rocks brahmas and cochins not sure if this would affct that at all my...