I am a novice urban backyard chicken keeper looking to expand my flock. Assuming we can figure out the quarantine thing, a friend has offered to share her rooster with my girls to fertilize some eggs but I have more questions that we can answer so far.
1. How long would the rooster need to be...
We re considering spending the 6-12 weeks in another state this year. I would prefer to take our 6 chickens with us but not sure it's realistic. Has anyone travelled with their chickens for an extended time? Any tips to making it work?
My chicks are about 13 weeks old. To date, I have blocked the nesting box off to prevent them from getting used to sleeping in them. (I have two of the backyard pre-fab coops for my 6 pullets). I have 2 questions:
1 - When do I open the nesting boxes? I have 2 spangled hamburgs which supposedly...
One of my chicks has had very minor pasty butt. When I cleaned off the vent today, I noticed that there is a hard bump about a centimeter down from the vent. Is this normal? The other chicks don’t seem to have it, though it’s hard to tell because I have only soaked the one chick’s rear.
She also...