Hi all, this is our first flock, we started out with 6, added 4 and then added another 4, all within the same age group. None have started laying yet. They are all creeping up on 6 months old. We had 3 roosters and 11 hens. A couple months ago, the second batch of 4 hens we got, from a...
Hi all, we had a chicken die last week after we took her to the vet for a swollen eye/sinus infection--she had a weird lump on her side, too, and gradually her body just shut down despite medication--about 2 weeks after we found the swollen eye.
Two days later, one of our other chickens started...
We have a mixed bag of 11 week olds - one we've known as a rooster for a while, and he just started crowing. All the others look like hens except for 2 we're not sure about - any ideas? We were resigned to 2, but don't think we can handle 3 in our yard, so it's disappointing:
The barred one is...
disclaimer: super new to chickens.
Pretty sure I know what the answer's gonna be, but we picked out 2 bsl girls and one is feathering in barred and has a much bigger comb than the other - rooster or not a bsl? neither of them had (noticeable) white dots on their heads, but I don't know how...
First time chicken mom here: I got 6 days-old chicks for Mother's day. Now we're at our 4th week, the coop is delivered, and we're just waiting (to get them out of my house)! The kids picked out 4 girls - an olive egger, a welbar, and 2 black sex links - and 2 lavender ameraucanas which we were...