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Awesome! I’ll do that and hopefully we’ll see some eggs soon!

Most ofbtheir combs are red. The hen on the left is 7. The two on the right are from earlier this year. The black one is the only one afaik whose comb is black. The second picture is how most of the black australorps’ combs look.

I have 14- and 16-week pullets that aren't laying yet. Can I go ahead and switch to layer feed? Feed them oyster shells? With my previous flocks, I waited until they started laying, but they're pretty close, and I'd like to go ahead fully integrate them with my older hens.

No worries! I'm not in a huge hurry. My dad reminded me that DE works on slugs, but I still want to know about this breed. It would be intriguing pest control. 😁

I asked about slug control in a homesteading FB group, and someone suggested this breed. They said these chickens hunt all the bugs and don't eat the garden plants. So I'd like to know more about them for anyone who has them.

Will it hurt the chicks? I know daily layer pellets probably would, but what about a one-time accident? Edit: They're 4 and 6 weeks old.

My extension cord isn't long enough to make it to the coop and run our heating pad. There's 17 of them, and they're half feathered out. They've been in our house until today, and I stepped down their heat at a week and turned it off at 2ish weeks. Here it will be mid-50s to high 40s for the...

I doubt I could get her to do that, though I agree it would be worth an article or even a series. She said she didn't think the different wings of government talked to each other. So maybe it would be fine?

My county uses Municode, and I tried searching for penalties and checking the Permitted Uses section for consequences of violations and turned up nothing. I work for our paper, so I'll try asking around there. I feel like calling zoning and asking about it would be kind of obvious. Especially...

https://www.agr.georgia.gov/cottage-food https://rules.sos.ga.gov/gac/40-7-19 So part of the licensing requirement is to get in touch with local government about septic/well suitability and any business licensing requirements. It's the local septic inspectors I'm worried about. I don't think...

So I originally got chickens to just have our own fresh eggs. County ordinance says that's fine, as long as any permanent structures are 100 feet from all property lines and 200 feet from any offsite residential structures. Well the coop is 125 feet from one neighbor's house (they don't care)...

Well, she didn’t make it. 😞 She was dying when I came back, but she’d laid an egg. It looked like she'd had some diarrhea, too, but I discovered that the waterer I left in the crate with her tilted, leaked out, and soaked the towels I had under her. And right before she died, she had very...

I’m not sure; I don’t have experience on this front at all.

I've given syringes of calcium and water as well as water and ACV. I gave her a warm soak for 20 minutes and rubbed EVOO around her vent. And I left her scrambled eggs in a little dish. I'll check on her again when I get back home. 🤷‍♀️

If she's egg bound, is Tums ok to use as calcium? Or can I grind up some oyster shell for the calcium shot?

Like I put a dunce cap on her. She's not favoring either foot. Just now, she was laying down in the run like she was nesting, but it's raining, so I moved her to the coop, and she went to the corner and stood there for a minute, then sunk down to the same position she was in when I picked her...

Today my usually flighty Ameracauna has been standing in the corner of the run and coop, or wandering over to the waterer/feeder and just staring at them. She's laid an egg in the last 24 hours, her comb is nice bright red, and I can't see any external signs of illness... mites, injuries, etc...

No, now it's 12 on March 29, 12 on April 12, and possibly 12 more either mid- or late March (I'm still waiting to hear from the breeder on that). The set dates are feed store chicks from an in-state hatchery. I'm hedging my bets since everyone wants chickens right now. So if I had an indoor...

Well they sold out before I got there anyway. So I’m getting 24 at the end of March instead of 12. That will give me time to arrange a setup, at least.

I’m just the queen of flukes, so I play it safe, but I’ll look into getting a weatherproof box for my outlet. That’s my biggest concern. So could I start one batch this weekend, move them to an outdoor brooder at 2 weeks then repeat the process with the March 30 batch, with all chicks ending...