Don't use the stinky water ones in the run/coop. You can put them around your property, but don't put them somewhere you want flies to not be. It attracts flies for like a mile.
Well I previously thought I had a mille fleur hen and rooster. Now I’m thinking I have 2 roos. :/ previous post on here said one roo and one hen. Only 1 has crowed so far. Hatched 3/1
Bird 1
Bird 2 (roo who crows)
I’ll post them in separate replies. Hatched 3/1, purchased from TSC from the bantam assortment bin. All have feathered yellow legs.
I have no idea what breed or if they’re hens or roos.
Chick 1
Got these as part of the bantam assortment at TSC, but I’m not sure what they are. Hatched 3/1, feathered feet. 4 toes.
Chick 1, who I think is a rooster
They’re still chugging on. Peep, the one with the eye issue, will wander some, but the other doesn’t really do much. Got them in a separate container so the bigger birds don’t run over them. Big difference between 2-2.5 ounces and 9 ounces.
Got some (hopefully) better images this evening of...
I got 10 Silkie chicks from a lady. The night I got them I noticed one was keeping an eye shut, by the next day it was both. I used antibiotic eye drops, and I’ve kept the eye cleaned off. The area around its eye and beak are constantly “matted” for lack of better term. I’ve recently added Tylan...
These two chicks are 3.5 weeks old now (right at 3 when these pics were taken). The yellow one is Saffron, and the brown one is Chippy. Chippy's beak seems to have been growing in crooked for a week or two, and Saffron has had a bit of a mismatched beak for about the same length of time. I...
We got our first chicks today. This is one of them. Our's are a "barnyard mix", crossed between Wheaton/Blue Wheaton Ameraucana and either Silver-Laced Wyandotte, Gold-Laced Wyandotte, or Black Copper Marans.
They're straight-run but I'm trying to figure out what to sacrifice to the pullet...
I bought the plans for The Basic Coop from the Garden Coop (also available on My Pet Chicken). However, I'd like to have an external nest box instead of the nest box inside that the plans call for. The Garden Coop website blog has a tutorial (no plans) of how to add an external nest box to The...