I'm also in the SF Bay Area, I'm getting my chicks Feb 26th, That's when the variety I want come into the feed store. The last two years we have gotten chicks (in Feb) and it's never been too cold for them. I kept mine in the house longer because I was a first time chick owner but now that I've...
My 7 year old doesn't realize they are girls so we have Jake the Production Red, Token the Barred Rock, and Zachary the Black Astralorp....then we have Mama/Gimley for our Amauracana, and bunbun X2 for our silver sebright.
I thought the same thing! Our first set we got a few weeks old but this last set of three we got came at 2 days old and we had lost one of them (had 4 to begin with) and after losing one I was afraid to step away for more than a few minutes at a time. It gets easier as they get bigger though. :)
Uh, my husband said the same thing about our chickens and my stomach dropped...I couldn't imagine eating our chickens unless zombies took over and it was our only food source....then I might be able to part with one or two of them.....
I wasn't expecting my chickens to enjoy meal worms so much and after seeing how much they cost, I decided to start raising my own. Any suggestions on how much mealworms to feed the chickens is too much? I get a kitch out of watching them eat them and I don't want to feed them too much but they...
When I was a kid we would go to the local marina and feed the ducks and this mean flock of geese would come and bully the ducks away. One of them had a broken wing and was mean as heck....I'm 29 and when I take my kids to feed the ducks the same mean flock of geese are there and the same one...
We picked up a grown chicken and tried to bring her into our flock and I was amazed at how the flock treated her. They literally turned their back on her, every single one of them. (picture below) but what we did was we kept the new chicken in our dog crate, she was used to free ranging so we...
We just lost our first chicken, Our dog got her also. I put a remote controlled shock collar on him and when he even goes near the chicken coop, he gets zapped. We're going to be putting a fence up around the chicken area on our side yard but until then...he gets zapped.
Recently our dog (queensland heeler) broke into our chicken coop and he went after our little Sebright bantam, Luckily she was okay. I made my husband strengthen the coop but a few days later I was standing in our dining room and my mother in law said "Duke's out there chasing a chicken" (Duke...
Here are my babies.
Hamburg Bantam and Black Australorp.
and here are my older ones
Gimley
Jake (red)
Token
and last but not least, my dear sweet bunbun who we recently just lost :( My heart is still broken over her.