It seems that common wisdom suggests that grit should be supplied free choice but when I put out a small bowl of it (a full measuring cup full), it is gone by the end of the day. I have 6 chickens that are using the grit right now. How long do they hold it in their beak? I don't know if they...
the white (perhaps buff) guy in the front is super runty.
cut to a few weeks later...he's about a 1/3 the size of his siblings. He's a feisty one though. love him or her, hopefully her.
so now i'm wondering what he'll look like when he's a 'big' chicken. any adult runt silkie pictures...
Maiden voyage for my homemade incubator (thanks for all the instructions/ideas forum members).
It's super ghettofabulous.
So I threw in some fertile eggs from Henry's Farmer's Market after reading about people hatching out the Trader Joe's chickies. I figured if I totally screw it up at...
I have multiple questions that I can't seem to wrap my chicken-sized brain around.
1. Is long and skinny ok for a coop? I rent and I want to be able to take the coop with me when we eventually move. Problem is the fence door leading out of the back yard is only 3ft wide. I was just going...
Bought this chick at a feed store. They said it was a Rhode Island Red but all the pictures I've seen of RIRs, they are actually very reddish. Can this be a RIR? Just curious.