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I know this Q gets asked a million times, but it looks like folks are usually blending younger chicks. I'm a first time chicken keeper - I got my elder 4 in May, splitting them off from my friend's large flock, so this is our first time raising any chicks. I've read a lot, but I still have...

All of these are within the last week. There aren’t any good body ones over the last week. I plan to take full pics on Monday, they’ll be 10 weeks old then. This one had a bright red crest at 6 weeks. They looked identical at arrival! Buff Orpington are Supposed to be autosexing, so I keep...

I'm quite worried about that, honestly! There are 11 females in the other pen, after we lost ten (10!!! That was a horror.) to raccoons over the summer. The pen is quite massive, and it would be nice to have a second defender in there, but I really worry about the ability of the 1 year old...

(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? - I've been helping with my friend's flock for about 18 months now. She gave us 4 of her hens in the spring, once we built our own coop. I ordered 3 more females from a hatchery in August. Four arrived, thrived, and here we are! (2)...