I have a 10 week old EE pullet bought from TSC. Amongst a flock of EE, orpingtons and australorp.
Went to let her out and she would not stand. Do I picked her up and she was limp. I checked her butt and had a nugget of poop stuck to feathers about an inch from her vent. Otherwise vent looked...
Okay so we got this beaut from TSC as a Blue Australorp. I was sceptical from the get go as a day old. Now it's around 2 months old and I'm still befuddled. I've asked opinions elsewhere and had, Sapphire Gem, Blue Andalusian and Blue Rock as guesses and most saying Hen.
I figured I would...
So looking into meat birds I have obviously come across the ever present cornish cross. Which seem to be a Cornish and Plymouth rock? Not sure if that's right or not. Either way where do the fast growth genes come from? I've seen the multiple different ranger breeds that also have a relatively...
So my wife and I are chicken newbies. We just got our set up running and have 3 australorp, 2 buff orpingtons, 2 Ameraucana (probably EE, sneaky TSC) and lastly an unknown, maybe sexlink/ maybe EE/maybe actual Ameraucana we got from our Co-Op. All this being said, chickens were in the pipeline...
Hey everyone, I'm Dan, a 27 year old British army veteran now married to my darling wife Torri and settled with 2 kids and one on the way in rural East Tennessee. We recently moved to what we hope to be our forever home on half an acre with land next to us we hope to acquire in the near future...