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It does seem to be painful for them- I notice roosters take a few days off crowing when they get frostbite. If you're still having cold temperatures, bringing him indoors for a few days while the worst passes may be some relief to him. Unless he's so depressed he's not eating, I wouldn't give...

Yeah there's a.. butchery smell. I always change clothes and have a shower after I've done processing, I find it helps. Once it's out of your nose, it'll be better- the cleaned carcass won't smell that strongly of it and the flesh won't taste any more like it than it always has.

If you have more money than time, you can have electric netting set up tomorrow, it's supposed to be very effective against ground predators, and as an advantage you can move it to give them them fresh forage. It does take a bit of upkeep to make sure the wire is always live. Hoop coops are...

Sometimes it just takes ages, especially this time of year when if you're in the northern hemisphere, light and temperature are acting against you. Could be tomorrow, could be not until Jan/Feb.

I find that the first eggs to start hatching take the longest to finish, at least it feels that way. How big is the hole? Sometimes they start it, then wait, then enlarge it, then wait again before they finish the job. If it looks like the hole is starting to go around the egg in a line, you can...

I had some feed store chicks last year and I gave half of them to a hen I knew would be accommodating. The brooder chicks did grow and feather faster(I usually run a cooler brooder) but by the time they were grown I couldn't tell the difference. It was quite noticable at three weeks though.

My Cluckles stickers came! He's the silkie rooster who has a few pages in the comic.

It's very hard to say! I find the air cell is a bit unreliable on its own, sometimes it starts out uneven and can look further along than it is from the wrong angle, or if the egg sits for a while before incubating, but there's one in your pictures that looks a bit big, day 17 maybe. The others...

The hen will usually stay on the nest for a day or two after chicks start to hatch- sometimes longer but it'll depend on her at that point. None of them are that close yet imo- you're looking for a drawdown on one side of the air cell, then the next day shadowing inside the air cell from where...

They'll be good on the nonslip for a few days, when they start to poop more you'll want to put up shavings. They are going to sleep a loooot for the first couple days, but most chicks(I've found with mine some breeds are better than others for this) will respond to you tapping and zoom over to...

Ah, she doesn't take it personally, she's just waiting for him to make her some of those good Chicken Treats🤮

Right now his most notable trait is that he's learning that my silkie rooster is the boss of him and sometimes he has to take that frustration out on a creature even further down the pecking order. He's one of those roosters who's mild and charming nine months of the year, you can pick him...

Boris! He's not in the comic but he might be in the next one.

My chickens always have a little nap in the afternoon, and sometimes they'll half put themselves to bed in strange places if they're not sure where they should go- if I've moved them from one coop to another for example, or if they're waiting for another chicken to go into the coop. But anytime...

I have a small cattle panel greenhouse in my run, it houses plants in summer and chickens on winter. They don't like going outside when it's snowy but once they learned the greenhouse was there they all rush over to it first thing, even on snowy days. I have a temperature monitor for it- it's...

If I run out of my own and still have steam I'll take some suggestions!

Thanks! This has been a really fun challenge from an art-problem solving point of view, figuring out how to draw some very complex and fancy birds as well as getting the body language really nice and expressive.

I think I'm going to repurpose this into a general art thread, I've been drawing a Lot of chickens! This is going to be a poster with all/most of the breeds I have. Or at least as many as I can get done before I get sick of how difficult chicken feet are to get right! I think the breeds of the...

Haha wow! That's definitely as big as any jerk I've done in. Thanks! You can do it! Truly it's not fun on the day but it is delicious after and when they've become a problem in the flock, a true relief for your other birds.

Bumping this because I got it printed! The PDF is still free at https://zednope.itch.io/bawk but now you can buy a hardcopy if you want.