My beloved chicken Thelma died today. She was a 5 month old Buckeye that just refused to grow. She had several health crisis that I nursed her back from but she just wouldn't grow or keep weight on. All of my other chickens rejected her, so she spent a lot of time with me. I'm heartbroken...
Help! I have 3 hens and 4 8-10 week old chicks. The chicks are in the coop with the chickens but seperated so the chickens can not get them. Last week, 1 of my chicks died. The chicks had food, water, normal poop, no watery eyes, or sneezing. The other chicks had pecked the chick that died...
Well, sorta done. Of course, the coop project is never ending and I keep revising it... but it is much closer to done and looking good enough to share pics!
Here is the coop. I like bold, bright colors so I couldn't stand the idea of doing the coop barn red, like my husband wanted!
Here is...
Hello Fellow BYCers!
I work at a feed store and have been selling chicks for nearly 10 years, but this year is the first time I have ever ventured into chicken ownership (Side note: I am loving it!). Although I could recite everything you needed to know about brooding chicks, I knew nothing...
I have been trying to handle my chicks a lot so they can be nice and comfortable around me; I want pet chickens and I can't wait until they are old enough to be bribed with food! Since being comfortable around me inevitably will require being comfortable around my dogs I decided we needed to...
Although my girls are still many weeks away from their coop, my hubby started building today so it will be ready in plenty of time.
I came home today to a very nice start! But, of course, my DH won't work on it again until next Saturday and I'm so anxious I can hardly stand it.
Here is the...
Hi BYC!
I work at a feed store and have been selling chicks for nearly 10 years. I decided that we needed to raise our own chicks, and my DH is going along with it, building me a wonderful coop and run, too.
Just thought I'd say hi to this awesome community; I have 2 chicks now (the other 2...