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Thanks to an ordinance change, I now have my first little flock. I started with 20 due to having to order bulk to get what I wanted. I eventually sold off 12 to 2 of my husbands co-workers once I picked my favorites. That left me with my favorite 8. 4 from the mail order, 2 silkies from a local...

I wrote a letter to my township board, last summer, requesting a change to the township chicken ordinance after reading in the local small town paper that someone else was also asking for an ordinance. I didn't get any feedback. The same summer our township was asking for a $19 bond proposal...

No no no!!!!! My Ms Frizz the polish frizzle is crowing (possible polish cochin mix). I am broken hearted. She is somewhere around 12 - 14 weeks. Recently a friend (who has had chickens since she was a child) assured me she was definitely a hen from her small pale comb and no sign of wattle...

I have 5 Columbian Wyandotte chicks. 1 had a more charcoal marking than yellow, 2 had some dark marking but not as much a the first. And two were mostly yellow with soft grey rumps. The hatchery chick video shows that Columbian chick can look very different and, honestly, when I opened their...

I got all 20 of my chicks (hatched May 18) through cocci and a 7 day course of Corid. I am still seeing a lot of healthy firm green and white poo but still see some runny peanut butter colored diarrhea. I have also seen an otherwise healthy poo with just a spot of blood on it maybe once a day...

So here we go again. I've got my first chicks ever, hatched May18 and arrived May 20. 6 Dominiques, 5 Salmon Fav's, and 5 Columbian Wyandottes. 3 days later I added 2 silkies and 2 polish that I bought locally. The brooder is made from 2 huge Costco potato crates, ends cut off and joined...

Raising my first ever flock here. Chicks are 3 weeks old now. I discovered last night that one of my silkie chicks has a crossed under toe. Not sure if she came to me this way? They have been on a bed of wood shavings covered over with paper towel to prevent splayed legs. She has been quite shy...