Hey all just got my order of chicks yesterday from Murray McMurray hatchery, I opted to have them include the free rate exotic chick and I'm stumped on the breed.
It's yellow and has a really cool pompadour. Here are a couple pictures, any ideas on the breed?? And I'm crossing my fingers for it...
I have 40 chicks all right at a month old now (all to be laying hens) - I bring them food in the morning and they about mob me before I can get it in their feeders. It has me concerned I'm not feeding them enough. (Or is that behaviour normal? This is my first time raising chickens)...
That is the question :)
I'm new to raising chicks - we got our 40 babies - originally 43, but sadly we lost 3 in the first three days...very hard on this first time raiser (my husband had to handle a crying wife after the third one died and hadn't a clue why) We figured out with help from the...
Here are a few pics I took today of my babies - they're almost 2 weeks old I started to give them treats last week Thursday, and today is the first time I've given them grapes - they loved them! At first they were all like having nothing to do with them, but as soon as one of them figured out...
This is fantastic - thank you for writing this article! :) My baby chicks are coming next week, (first ones ever) and I'm trying to learn what I can before they get here.
When you say out since 3 weeks do you mean outside but still enclosed, or what do you mean exactly? I'll be getting my baby chicks next week (first ones ever!) and I'm planning to keep them on the back porch with heat lamps and such until we're finished with the coop, but then what is the...
Maybe adopt one and probably end up keeping them all as outside kitties
WWYDI your inside cat starting conspiring with the outside cats to make a raid? (You decide what they're conspiring about and what they're planning to raid)