My silkies are about 15 weeks and one of them is significantly bigger than the other. We think Ethel is an Ethan since he/she has been crowing but doesn’t do it every morning. At first I thought the silkie picked up the habit from my other girls who are older and like to yell at me if I don’t...
We have 6 chickens, two of which are silkies. The original plan was to free range but that is no longer an option for us. So now we are wanting to build a covered run. We are thinking 6 ft wide, 10 ft long. Does that seem like enough space?
We just picked up four new chicks from Family Farm and Home on Sunday. I noticed yesterday something was weird on the foot of one of the bantams we picked up but our new chicks are very skittish and run the minute we reach for them. I didn’t want to stress them out more so I waited to get them...
New chicken mom here! We have a little bit of a range of age between our 4 chicks with the oldest being somewhere between 5-6 weeks and the youngest being around 3 weeks. We’ve never had an issue with plucking or jumping on each other or pecking order between the ages either. The older one...