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We have been raising our most recent batch of layers and I ordered a Pearl Star cockerel in the mix. A friend has one and it came out with a rose comb and the typical brown leghorn coloring. At this point in time mine, which is younger than his, is white and black. Do they change colors as they...

At 7 or 8 weeks what do you feed your chicks? Had very good luck with purina but local places keep raising the price. We have 38 chicks currently that are all feathered so we go through quite a bit of feed.

Our fifth batch of chicks is arriving in a day. We have them set up in our garage at the house we are moving into in a couple weeks. The heat lamp is concerning me as the garage isnt insured right now(because of one curled shingle). Do the brooder heat mats carry the same fire risk as a heat...

About half of our flock is cinnamon queen. They lay lots of big brown eggs but the last two weeks they've decided to peck eggs and either eat the inside or just leave a spider web crack on the end. We have roll away nests. The other 30+ hens in our flock are fed the exact same thing and dont...

Last night we had something come into a pen and maul two ducks. Didn't eat them. My brother says it seems to have went through the flight netting. I was thinking weasels. It beheaded them whatever it was. Any other ideas? We've been at war with rats but got them at Bay finally and now this.

What would cause a hen to seemingly just drop dead? None of them were acting strange when I left for work this morning but when I went to collect eggs just now one was dead in the coop. No signs of foul play. It looks like she just fell over.

There are a few varieties of chicken I wanted to add to our flock, but they won't be available until June from the hatchery. The plan was to raise them with the ten I currently have so they are only a week and a half apart. So if I continue to raise the current chicks and then raise another...

So I know this is probably a game breed. But would a brown leghorn be closer to this coloration, or a Welsummer?

I saw a page for the Henlight. Very cool, but not affordable right now. I am curious to see if anyone has found an affordable solar powered light to supplement shorter days in your coop? I've been trying to find one that can be used with a timer. There are alot on Amazon but none that I have...

For those who sell their eggs, how would you go about increasing your eggs value? I plan to try to do this next spring for the new market season so I'm just curious as to what other people have done or ideas they may have had. Obviously it could be a region specific solution.

We have fed our chickens Purina layer crumbles as long as we've had them. Except when they were on the starter feed. Today I went to the local elevator to see what they had to offer that was similar as TSC is going to get very costly for us to feed from soon with over 50 birds. We can save about...

I'm making the final touches to my newest coop before winter and am adding in brand new Nest-O-Matic boxes. I have three so far but will need to add three more before they start laying.y question is, do chickens care how the boxes are oriented? As in all in one straight row or stacked? I know...

I just thought I'd share my two coops I use one is built from an old steel shed I got from my boss for the low cost of free. I repainted it and added the run I bought from TSC on clearance. It houses 16 chickens currently. The other one we just moved and started remodelling today. It was a seed...

Does anyone else offer their chickens sunflower heads along with their normal feed? I've been doing it for a few weeks now and they seem to like it. It takes them a couple days to finish off a head.

We got our new chicks today from cackle hatchery. All of them in perfect condition. These thirty some chicks will take our current flock to the next stage for our egg endeavor. We are very excited!

My mom keeps ducks and has for awhile now. A little over a month ago she got two more Pekin ducklings from TSC. One of them was doing fine walking around and then later that day could only hobble around. I checked to see if it had broke it's leg and couldn't find anything. No odd angles or pain...

I'm from Sanilac County in Michigan and I currently have 8 Black sex links and 8 Rhode Island Red, one being a rooster. In about a week I'll have another 31 chicks, Cinammon Queens. We raise chickens for eggs to sell at our farm stand and the local farmers market. My fiance also has another 15...