I temporarily moved out of state and rented out my house to a friend but she's vacating so I need to find a good home for the hen. Please let me know if you have other chicken friends for her and can take her! Or if you know of any good resources in the area to find a good home, that would...
I've obsessively read all there is in these forums about the cold, coop ventilation, water freezing, frostbite, everything about precautions to take with the cold. I know I'm being neurotic but it's going to be 12F where I am next week and thus far my two buff orps (both about six months old)...
I currently own my home and have two pet chickens. I love them and don't want to have to give them up! But my husband and I will likely have to move across the country soon and will have to rent. We won't be buying in the new place because it's out of our price range and we also aren't sure it...
I adopted two buff orpington chicks from someone who was about to get rid of them, and couldn't bear that thought, but had (and have) no idea how to raise them. They were probably about three or four weeks old at the time. I would guess they are about 24 weeks old now.
Anyway, when I first got...