Egg customers are increasing for me and my girls cant keep up. Wanting to buy 30 more hens. I normally go with cackle hatchery or murry hatchery but they wont have any till early summer at best. Ive checked a few others as well but theres like a 2 month waiting period. So who has female chicks...
I buy my chicks from cackle hatchery. They guarantee you will get them alive and well during shipment. They also add a couple extra chicks in the shipment to make sure. Never had a problem. Last time I ordered 20 chicks and was sent 23. All alive and well. Plus they have the biggest selection of...
Id say all 4 of em are somewhere in the middle of pecking order. 2 of my dominickers are the queens of the coop ! While most likely one of my cinnamon chickens is on the bottom. They are all the same age. Theyll be 2 yrs old in march.
I have a mixed flock consisting of golden comets, dominickers, cinnamons, rhode island reds & americanas (easter eggers) . Got 4 of each except the cinnamon chickens, i lost one of them as a chick. Anyway so out of 19 hens only the americanas are anti-social with me. We have handled all our hens...
Unfortunately if shes already to the point of waiting on other hens to lay so she can eat their eggs she is too far gone. She wont stop. It happens sometimes. Just a rouge chicken. Make chicken soup out of her.
I was told years ago to provide 1 nest for every 3 hens. That being said I built my coop with 10 nest boxes in it. I currently have 18 hens who use exactly 3 of em lol ! I have NEVER ONCE seen an egg in any of the other boxes. The hay is not even disturbed or mashed down.
Hello, im new to this site but not to raising chickens ! I grew up around chickens and currently have a mixed flock of hens consisting of 4 cinammon's, 4 Dominicker's, 4 Rhode island reds, 2 Golden Comets & 3 Americana's (easter eggers) my chickens are hilarious at times ! Ive got 4 perch swings...