So I am trying to get some better pics of the birds. One of the questions I have is that I was looking through the pic of the week on this site and saw photos of hens (at least the caption said they were hens) and they had bright red combs and wattles! I am totally confused!!
I got 6 chicks and I was told they were all sexed and all females. I have two RIR and I think I am beginning to wonder if I dont have two roosters on my hands. I really hope not, I have theses ladies for eggs only NOT meat. I am going to include a couple of photos if that will help. They are...
Hello all,
From reading other posts I realized that I did not know to ask if the chicks I got were vaccinated upon hatching. When do you administer vaccines to chickens? Our ladies are strictly for eggs and not meat. Do you vaccinate chickens in the same manner in which you would your dogs...
Hi there! I am brand new to this forum and brand new to raising chickens! We have 6 beautiful chicks now and I had a question about putting electrolytes in their water. I mixed it up this morning and noticed that it said to make a new mixture each day. It is one packet per gallon of water...