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  1. LowLady

    Sick chick? Eats and drinks but listless otherwise

    I have a RIR that’s coming up on 2 months old. She’s growing slower than the other RIR that’s the same age and not being a chicken at all. She just lays under a heat lamp all day and peeps if anyone touches her. I do see her eating at drinking but othe wise she just lays there when she isn’t...
  2. LowLady

    Soooo idk what I have....

    Hoping those who are more familiar with breeds can tell me what I got. We were in tractor supply (for two solar lamps) and left with 6 chicks ( idk what happened ). I asked for 2 golden laced Wyandottes, 2 barred rocks , and got talked into 2 Orpingtons. I got home and thought the barred rocks...
  3. LowLady

    Because 12 Rescue chickens last month wasn’t enough....

    So after a drunken discussion last weekend about wanting “ a few more” chickens eventually ,and missing our RIR who had passed , and seeing chicks at the feed store , I was told the magic words “get them if you want” Soooo I added another pair of Barred Rocks, a pair of RIR, and a pair of...
  4. LowLady

    Duck breeds?

    So my bf wanted ducks and me having had mallards as a kid growing up was all about it. Did a little reading and figured hey I can handle this. Then I get to the feed store and almost backed out (but I didn’t). So after observing them a few minutes I picked a few I liked, and a black one for him...
  5. LowLady

    Random pics of my flock

    I’ve had them out of the pen more since we’ve had some nice days. Here are some pics of my newly increased flock. All birds in my flock are rescues.
  6. LowLady

    3 hens + 4 months = 16 hens and a rooster

    Picked up the last 7 chickens being added to my flock today! Ahh good ol chicken math. It started with 3 Rescue hens in sept and 3 chicks from an old coworker (we lost one sadly ). The coworker who gave me chicks then could no longer care for her flock of 12 anymore due to health reasons so I...
  7. LowLady

    Breed guess?

    I’m new to the chicken game still so I only know a handful of breeds. I adopted my friends flock of hens and most are either EE/Phoenix mix or silkie crosses from what I was told but this hen is different so I was wondering if she looks like a mix or is a specific breed. She’s the tiniest of...
  8. LowLady

    And then there were 10

    A friend of mine who I got my two mixed bantam babies from has decided to get rid of her flock due to her and her husbands health issues and she was tired of hawks taking them. So I agreed to take 4 as I could only afford a cheap quarantine coop which is small. So me and the bf went to pick up 4...
  9. LowLady

    The many faces of Lucy

    my Lucy is very photogenic and I find some of them amusing so I thought I’d share
  10. LowLady

    New from NJ

    Hello my name is Krissy. I just acquired my hens in the end of September in a Rescue situation. Then I acquired two more from a friend who bred her chickens. Currently I have a flock of 5 which is growing soon. So I’m here to learn even more than I have in the past 4 months !
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