Search results for query: *

Requesting opinions on a rooster breed. I have a mixed flock, and my rooster died this past winter. I’m trying to decide what breed to replace him with. I like brahmas, barred rocks, and speckled Sussex the best out of my flock for all-around gentleness, size, foraging, and good layers. I’ve...

For several years I have kept about 9 to 12 hens at any given time. I love having a mixed flock for a lot of different reasons, easy identification being one. But I had a rooster accidentally sip into an order of hens and am going to let him give us some new chicks this year. It made me start...

I ordered a hen, but its looking more like a rooster to me. It’s barely past four months old. Anyone know? Thank you :-).

My ten month old Wyandotte hen was limping two weeks ago, and I have been watching it ever since thinking it might be bumblefoot. There was never a black spot or open area but there was swelling in her back toe. She doesn’t really limp at all now, but the toe remains swollen. Can anyone tell...

I have had my chickens for almost a year and have really enjoyed them. I stopped by Tractor Supply because I was thinking of picking up a couple more, but I happened to see ducks there. I have thought off and on about getting two or three just to see how they suited us, and I have done a little...

Hello all :) After a hawk killed one of my chickens, I now have 10 pullets. They started laying around Valentine’s Day. And gradually it went up from there. We had more eggs than we could eat. I was getting, it seemed like, 5 to 6 eggs a day. They often free range on our farm but seemed to...

Is this normal? I noticed my two week old chicks feathering out in various places, some quicker than others. Several have fully feathered wings and tails and are hodge podgy looking in other spots. I have noticed two almost with a completely bald stripe straight from the chest down to the...

hi, I have two week old chicks that have almost completely shunned the ecoglow except for the first couple of nights. It has been really really hot here in Tennessee, even at night until recently. They are a mixed group of 12. They used it the first maybe three or four nights, but now every...

Hi! I have chicks that are about 10 days old and I have off and on been trying to teach them to use my nipple waterer system… it is a horizontal one… and they get the idea of where the water comes out, but they seem to not peck the nipple. They instead went to grab onto the stem with their beak...