Hi, all! A week later and my girls are still healthy and growing. But they are doing something I think is unusual. Every morning, they wait for me to carry them outside to their little temporary pen. Once they are all together, they practice flying and stretching their wings but occasionally...
Hi! As a chicken newbie, I think I'm doing pretty good. The girls are growing and showing more white. In thinking about the way the brooders were set up at Rural King, I remembered the sign read "BLACK BUFF ORPINGTONS" I thought it was an error and that they were either black or buff. Is it...
Thanks for the tip - I will head back over there this week and ask. They did have separate brooders for australorps and barred rocks, also. It doesn't really matter what I've got, since I just love them - but I would like to know. I will go explore the site you suggested and see what I can...
Hi! Thanks for allowing me to join your chicken world. I used to run a horse farm in SC and had hired hens - guineas - to work in my fields. You would have never convinced me pre-guinea that I would be a bird woman, but the person who said it was an addiction was right.
I did all kinds of...