We started with 6 hens a few years back and now have a flock consisting of 3 Australorps, 2 silver laced wyandottes, 2 lavender orpingtons, 2 blue orpingtons, a buff orpington, 2 buckeyes, a barnevelder, 2 speckled sussex, a columbian wyandotte. For the most part they get along fine (other than...
We ended up losing her the following week. Not sure why, but if there were externally visible issues I can only surmise that there were internal issues as well.
I've read about one hen being much smaller after a couple weeks, but this is now going into the 18th week. I have a buff orpington hen that can walk underneath the other hens she hatched with without having to duck. She's not much larger than a 2-3 week old hen. She has flight feathers but...
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We're fairly new to chickens and have a question about introducing new our 5wk old chicks to 9 week old chicks.
The older group consists of 2 black australorps, 1 buff orpington, and 1 silver laced wyandotte.
The younger group consists of 1 black austalorp, 1 silver laced...