I looked out the window this morning and saw a beautiful hawk sitting on the chicken coop. I was admiring its beauty when I realized it was checking out a way to get my girls. Thankfully they're in a fully covered & enclosed run with an attached coop. I usually let them free range in the...
My husband and I have a friendly bet going on and I know my BYC friends can help.
I've been a member here since my "ladies/red stars" arrived in May and I've read up on everything I can since I'm still an "out of the brooder". I say it's okay to feed chickens leftover meat/chicken scraps, etc...
This one didn't turn out well, but I was in a hurry. What is this? It's not an egg sticking out -- the outer layer looks like crusty poop but under that it looks like exposed flesh? Hard to describe but very yucky. And did I mention it stinks to high Heaven? It's a sudden on-set because I...
Found my hen looking like this this afternoon and good Lord it stinks. She's 4 months old and has been eating fine. I think she's been laying, too, but I have 7 others her age and I can't tell who's laying and who's not. I've been getting about 5 eggs a day for the last week. Can't figure...
We got our first egg a couple of weeks ago and ate it immediately. It was small and delicious and had 1 yolk. Since then it's taken a while for the girls to get going. Got a couple of soft shelled ones that we had to toss. Then they started 1 at a time. We're up to 2-3 a day now and I think...
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Trying to figure out how to post pix. If it doesn't work .... sorry.
If it does work .... this is the Before picture of our coop.
We re-purposed out daughter's wooden swing set.
My name is Sandra and I ordered 8 Red Star baby chicks yesterday. I have a young daughter and at Christmas helped my dad take care of the neighbors chickens and thought it was a lot of fun and the eggs were delicious! She asked if we could get some and I said sure. We also have a baby goat...