Welcome to the board AmyLM
I am fairly new to.. And I tried gardening last year and I did a great job at growing weeds but not veggies.. lol ..dont know if I am going to try again this year or not..and I have recently got started in chickens this last year and trying my hand at hatching a...
I read somewhere that chickens who lose a lot of feathers at once during a molt are better egg layers.. Here is some information I found on a website.
" Different varieties and ages of chickens will molt at different times, though, so you may see one chicken molting in your flock while the...
Could your hens be going thru a molt? I know it sound weird but I thought the same of my beautiful rooster ....after almost 4 months my girls grew their feathers back and started laying eggs again. I actually thought I was going to have to learn to knit so I could make sweaters for them...And...
I have my Llamas, goats, and sheep, and calf running with my chickens.. except the chickens have their own house. but I always catch them sleeping in the barn on top of the sheep and goats during the day..
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A fellow chickaholic, so what kind of babies are you getting Thursday? I have lost many ckickens to wild animals . I'm really tired of MT lions right about now!!!
I have some more ameracana pullets comming and getting 5 silkies. My husband is the one that talked me into getting a few...
Thanks for inviting me to the Texas group of BYC.. I live near Lubbock.. I have 40 chickens or more and new babies should arrive Thursday from Ideal poultry...I also have 2 llamas, and lots of dairy goats and 2 sheep, 2 guinea pigs, 2 parakeets, 3 cats and 6 dogs and 4 puppies that will be...
Thank you for all the welcomes.. I am guessing chickens will be easier for them to show than goats right now.. lol ..Now I have DH building me a new coop to put my show chickens in so I have to hold off on ordering eggs for the incubator for a bit unless I can convince him they are living in...
I have been scoping out the eggs for hatching.. thinking I need to get me a 12+ of silkies and 12+ ameraucana eggs.. Just waiting on pay day.. lol... it is horrible how obsessed I am becoming with chicks.. hoping to find some good quality hatching eggs that might win shows here for my boys.. but...
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My name is Jennifer... I have 30 + chickens..I know for sure 9 of them are Ameraucana's and the others are mixed .... I want to start getting my 4 boys into showing chickens here at the South Plains Fair. (ages 7,5,4,and 2) I missed it this year but there is a spring show comming up I...