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UPDATE: I ended up putting up some chicken wire on t-posts and attached to the chain link of the run inside with the rest of the flock. I had a rabbit cage that I covered with a tarp and they were quite happy. Some of the older girls and eventually one of the boys flew in to hang out with them...

UPDATE: she seemed to be doing better, happily eating and drinking but no ability to use her legs. We sent her to my bf's grandma assuming she would have the time to give her proper pt. Well, she enjoyed a nice warm Epsom salt bath, ate a bunch of scrambled eggs, and quietly passed away. Thank...

I think I tend to forget(with the help of my boyfriend who's raising chicks for the first time and is horribly overprotective) that they could be perfectly happy living in the trees. The lady I got them off of said they were 9-10 weeks old but when I went to pick them up I realized they were...

You make a good point 🤣 but given the space that I'm using I don't think it's feasible, plus I'm trying to have a way to still shut them in at night which seems like it would be a hassle... but maybe I'm overthinking it. Also maybe I could combine both ideas, closing the ends off with chicken...

100% agree with most of what you said, and I was thinking of just covering a rabbit cage that I have with a tarp, which sounds closer to what you're saying. I planned on giving them a portion of the run separated with chicken wire, not just the tent. I just wanted the tent as the actual...

Okay, this might be a stupid question to ask but I've looked it up and haven't found anything that quite answers my question... I need a way to introduce my teenagers to my adults and I'd like to give them space inside the adult run. Sectioning off the big coop just isn't an option, moving the...

Unfortunately it looks like she likely isn't going to make it. I'm not sure if I didn't get vitamins to her soon enough or if something else is going on that I just can't figure out. I'm at a loss as to what else to do. She smells really bad, and not really in a normal chicken way. She's no...

I haven't gone out to look for specific vitamin b supplements yet, I've just been giving an all around vitamin supplement. But she seems to only be getting worse today. I've dealt with wry neck and it definitely doesn't present like that, but I'll have to keep that method in mind the next time I...

Well, I just finally got around to taking photos of her but the bruising is gone now😂 she's still suffering muscularly. She was doing better for days but I found her rolled over on her back again this morning(the dog actually barked to alert me to it) and then again when I got home from work...

3 days ago I found a chick flopped over on her back, "turtling" as I like to call it. She could not get up and was laying on a wing outstretched. I picked her up and she ran out of the coop but fell on her face and ended up back in the same position. So I picked her up and brought her in. We've...

Hi all! I've run into a bit of an issue... The only hatchery that I even sort of like the looks of their Blue Laced Red Wyandottes is Murray McMurray but they're already sold out for the season. The only breeders I can seem to find have either gotten out of BLRs in recent years, only sell...

Our daily feed stays exactly the same because our chickens really don't like/do well on other grains. But we have raised and slaughtered 3 pigs of our own who were very fatty and we have 2 other pigs in our freezers from friends and family and although they weren't quite as fatty we still have a...

Okay, so I've only been trying to post this for the last two days but it wouldn't upload pictures... These guys are between 4 and 8 weeks old. From how they look like this, do you think I've got a whole bunch of roosters? I know it's easier to tell from multiple angles, but there's just too many...

To me it looks like the first one is either splash or light blue(although they end up looking pretty much the same) and the rest look like typical blue.

It's not dumb at all. From my experience I can tell between blue and splash but I haven't had a black yet so I don't know about them.

This year I'm finally getting into breeding BLRs but now I'm running into a bit of a dilemma. Red wattle development right around and younger than 8 weeks should indicate it's a cockerel correct? It's been a couple years since I've raised BLR chicks and I keep seeing that early coloration is...

Thank you for everyone's input. I think I will keep the hen at least for now(one is definitely a roo, but I think the other is a hen). I should have specified a little more because all the other birds still have good lacing and overall coloration but they're leaning more towards the undesirable...

If you're breeding for color and rose comb would you keep a chick who's the perfect color but has a single comb? I've run into an issue where I have 2 single comb BLRs but they both have perfect dark blue and mahogany feathers... I was originally just going to sell them but now I'm not so sure...

First of all, thank you for putting all of the random ideas that have floated through my head over the last few years all in one place... Pretty much all of that is why I waited so long to start actually breeding my birds although I've been hatching for a few years. I'm glad to have a name to...

So, this year I've managed to pretty much only hatch chicks who've seemed extremely robust and healthy, or at least those that have made it out of the incubator... Most years I've struggled with sick chicks(pasty butt, what I'm pretty sure was coccidiosis, etc.), formed chicks, and excessive...