A few of my girls started singing this week and I love it I have 4 layers all this week! My Red Sexlinks lay one daily! This is my first year with Chickens and I love every minute of it.
That's what I was thinking but I didn't really want to get my hopes up. I've been sitting here crossing my fingers that some of my chicks would be roosters:)
So I have just noticed how much larger as well as redder the comb is on one of my Buff Orpington Chicks does this mean that it is a rooster? They are 4 weeks old now. I'm sure you can guess the one in question by looking at the pictures
The shavings I had them on were fairly small, I have been reading and studying for over a month, I have no idea how I missed that and only happened to come across that they would die eating wood chips last night. I had everything set up before going to pick them up. I'm not sure maybe I just...
I brought my baby chicks home today, I really wanted them to be comfortable so I had pine bedding already in their brooder. Well of course an hour after I get home with them I read that they have a tendency to eat the pine bedding and it can kill them. I rushed downstairs and took all the pine...
I have also read that you can add 2 cups of brewers yeast to 10 lbs of chick starter. Also I have heard cat food but can't find anything on the rations of it to add...
My husband bought me chick starter seeing as the local farm store told him it would work for turkeys too. I read they need a higher protein amount than what is in the chick starter so my question is how much scrambled eggs should I add to their food for the right amount of protein, or is there...
Well I have poked around this site for a few years now. It has really fueled my want for poultry.
Any who my name is Jaycee I am by no means a people person lol. I have severe social anxiety and really tend to keep to myself. I am 26, a stay at home mom, and mother to 5 (two by marriage)...