Ok so we found this extremely large fully formed egg a week befor Easter. We decided to dye it gold "the chicken that laid the golden egg". We decided to count with our kids how many yolks were inside. We broke it open and found another fully formed egg! I had never heard of such a thing and...
We found one of our chicks this morning letting itself get trampled on by the other chicks. When we picked it up we noticed it felt lighter and it would just lay wherever we put it. When I looked closer at it I noticed it had pasty butt. I cleaned it off, gave it some sugar water and isolated it...
I bought a number of chicks from a breeder and now I cant figure out what chicks are the blue laced red wyandottes and which are the welsummers. I also purchased Penedesencas that look a lot alike the other two breeds right now. I think I can exclude the Penedesencas because they have the blue...
So, I bought 16 chicks ( 8 different breeds) from a breeder but she gave us 24 in total. When they came home I couldnt figure out which chick was which. Ive done some research and I think Ive figured out what most of them are. I read somewhere that the Penedesencas should have grey legs. I...
HI Everyone! Im new to BYC and a new mommy to 26 chicks living in Simi Valley, CA. My kids and I are loving it and Im trying to learn everything I can about chickens. We started with 4 chicks a few weeks ago (thinking that we wanted somewhere around 8) and now have....well....a lot! I guess...