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I know chickens are supposed to be smart. But are they smart enough to go back to the coop to eat when they are hungry? Here is our Fall routine now that it is getting a bit colder and I go out a little bit later in the morning: Around 9am I go let the chickies out of their coop (I have 5...

I called my local feed store to clarify what I got and they now tell me they sold me Ross Broiler Chicks....I'm so confused and disappointed in what I thought was a reliable place to buy chicks :( I really have no idea what I have. They DO look like what was suggested above (Sexlink) but the...

Oh my, they looked nothing like them! Here is one of them at 1 day old.

Thanks for all the replies! I will cross my fingers and hope they will acquire a taste for them!

3 weeks ago I bought 5 day old Brown Leg Horn chicks in the hopes that they would forage in the back yard and help us battle our Thatcher Ant problem. So far I haven't seen them eat a single ant. They readily eat blackflies and moths. When they see an ant, they just watch it walk away. I saw...

Awesome :) I actually got them because they were extras that came into the local feed store as someone cancelled their order. I didn't care what they were, I was just told BLHs but then they started growing feathers that weren't brown lol. They did have chipmunk markings though, when they were...

I bought what I was told to be 5 brown leg horn chicks from my local feed store, and I'm just wondering what you all think. Do BLH generally have this much white color to them?

Hi all, I'm extremely new to raising backyard chickens! I bought 5 brown leghorn laying chicks 2 weeks ago and live in Nova Scotia. I'm doing my very best to raise them chickies right so they live long happy healthy lives and hopefully clean up the ant problem in my yard and give me eggs as a...