Faith is a 22 week old Seckled Sussex pullett. I noticed that she has seemed listless and not interested in treats over the last week and I saw her "heaving" like she was trying to throw up. Today she was up in the coop and I was petting her and noticed that her crop was huge and felt like it...
My SIL was looking for a rooster and was given a rooster/hen pair that are supposedly the same breed. Here is a picture of the rooster and the hen (usually hiding behind the rooster). They are smaller than her leghorns so possibly a banty. She just wants to be able to tell people what they...
Overheard my daughter telling a friend that she helped put pretty anklets on our chickens today - LOL multi-colored leg bands do kind of look like anklets and that is a nicer way of looking at it.
Okay, the prior sexlink thread is closed, so I'm starting a new one! I have 2 hatchery pullets that were sold as "Gold Sex-links". Their names are Goodness and Kindness (all of my current pullets are named after fruits of the spirit). They hatched on 3-28-11 and haven't started laying yet...
I have 2 daughters adopted from Ethiopia, so our chicken house will be called Doro (Chicken) Bet (House) - original, eh?
My first step was designing a coop with the local preditors in mind - this is Nikki, a lab mix with a "history" of confusing pet chickens with wild pheasants
The next step...
Okay, my chicks are all 3 weeks old. I'm starting to be concerned that one of my delawares is a roo-let. The first picture is the suspect, the second is a picture of the suspect with the other same age delaware. The suspect chick is bigger, has thick legs and acts much bolder. The last...
She knows how to drink and drinks some water from the ice cube tray and then dunks her head it in and takes a bath like she's a robin?! Anyone else's do this? She's a cute little chick (how's that for redundant!) from the Speckled Sussex bin.
I gave up on chickens a couple years ago after getting tired of feeding the local raccoon, hawk and coyote populations. When coyotes came and wiped out half of my girls innocently free ranging in my yard in the middle of the afternoon, I gave the survivors to a new home with a LGD to protect...
It's my fault, I have a cold and I'm kind of out-of-it and forgot to close up the coop last night after the girls were freeranging. This morning, my daughter came in yelling that the coop was open and 2 chickens were dead.
Zilpah was outside the coop, surrounded by feathers.
Deborah - my...