This is my barred rock, Gravel, I'm thinking roo but I have had multiple people on a facebook group tell me otherwise, let's settle this. He's very timid and at the bottom of the pecking order, I've always thought because he's younger than the majority of the hens, he also pays them no...
This is Bandit, I'm pretty sure he's a cockerell but I have a barred rock that I'm 100% positive is a cockerell, so I'm holding out hope that Bandit is actually a pullet, can anyone confirm or deny if this is a valid hope?
I would like to get a chicken harness for one of my chickens, Calla, but I'm looking for advice, what I'd like to do is put it on her and leave it on her so that I could tell her apart from the rest of the flock easier, she's an australorp so there isn't much variation physically between her and...
I need a little help sexing my three delaware chicks and one of my australorps.
Delaware 1:
Delaware 2
Delaware 3:
All 3 Delawares:
Australorp:
I know they're terrible pictures because they're under a heat lamp and in a brooder so pictures are impossible, but hopefully someone can help...
I checked on my chicks today and found one of them wasn't running around like she usually does and when I picked her up I saw that her whole butt was missing all of it's feathers and it was bloody
I don't know what happened! I had to put her out of her misery and it was so sad. :( I have two...
needing a little advice; I have an old shed on my property which I previously used as a chicken coop but my chickens weren't laying, presumably because there isn't very much light, and there isn't much ventilation. It's completely metal except for half of the side facing their run, which is wood...
I have had chickens previously but after having some nasty problems with predators (mainly raccoons, but some fox problems as well) I was without chickens for a couple years, I just bought some chicks on Monday and I'm excited to start fresh and hopefully have a much better experience this time...