I found a strange poop in the coop this am, have not seen one like it in the nearly two years we have had chickens. Googling hasn’t helped me understand if this is a sign of something to be concerned about or not. Has anyone had any experience with poop like this? We have 24 chickens right now...
Hello, one of my year old buff orpingtons was attacked by a hawk yesterday afternoon. She admirably fought it off and we scared it away and immediately brought her inside to the house and put her in a dog crate. We confined the rest of the flock to their coop and run and I cleaned her wounds...
Hi, ive read a lot about how the amount of white in a speckled Sussex chick's breast feathers might indicate gender. I have four 5 week olds and two have very little white :
And two have much wider and thicker white on their chests:
Other than that they seem to be very similar and...
Hello, this is my first go at raising chickens and in my mixed breed flock of 15 I have four australorps. Three look nearly identical and I suspect that the fourth maybe a he. Out of all 15 "he" is the only one with no real tail feathers yet and "he" has a very different personality from the...