I have five chickens: a two year old Welsummer, a Barred Plymouth Rock, a Golden Laced Wayandotte, each about a year old, and two RIR pullets about 5 months old. The Welsummer lays dark chocolate brown speckled eggs, and the other two adult hens lay brown eggs with no speckles, and lighter than...
I stumbled onto this website when searching for chicken related sites: www.drinkingwithchickens.com.
It is actually a blog about fancy drinks, and won a blog award from SAVEUR Magazine as best drinks blog. I know there are many folks here who do not drink or approve of alcohol, so I hope you do...
We have had some 9" of rain this week, and the fenced run which encloses my coop has turned into a horrible, stinking, muddy mess. The area has no grass, used to be a dog run, and I have been using wood shavings as a base, and have never experienced a situation like this in which the unrelenting...
I have three laying hens, a Wellsomer, a Barred Rock, and a Golden Laced Wyandotte, all brown egg layers. Today there were only two eggs in the coup, one dark brown with speckles from the Wellsomer, and a pure white egg from one of the other two. All three hens appear to be in excellent health...
My wife walked in yesterday to find that one of our two week old BR chicks was laying on her side squealing loudly, and her vent was blocked with feces. She used a warm wet paper towel to clean the chick, but the chick is still not acting like the other chicks. She is lethargic and her vent or...
I received a shipment of seven chicks yesterday, among which were three day old baby Sebrights. One of them is doing just fine, but two of them appear to be smaller than the other, and are having a hard time eating and drinking on their own. My wife and I fed and watered them with a medicine...
Hello everyone. I've had backyard chickens for a couple of years now, and have been lurking on this site nearly that long. Currently I have a very small flock of four girls, two Wellsomers and and two Black Javas. I've had other breeds including Barnvelders, Polish, and BRs, but had some...