16 weeks in, we have the first two egg laying chickens! LuBu our Asian Black and Henny Penny our Speckled Sussex have given us eggs two days in a row. They’re beautiful!
Now, I have decoy eggs in nest boxes but they’ve got a nest in a corner they built. Do I put a nest box where they made a...
I have a Silkie in a mixed flock. It has been very caring and motherly to all the chicks it was raised with. One of our two straight run chicks was a rooster, so he and his favorite hen went to live on a real farm. I live in suburbs, I can’t have roosters.
Suddenly my motherly wonderful Silkie...
One early spring day our little family went to a pet store for worms for our Beardie and saw chickens. We fell in love and grabbed one. We knew nothing except that they need a coop and can’t be alone. So we got our brooder set up, got a bunch more chicks, and built a fortress of a coop!
Now, we...