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For a few days. I know I should have probably done longer.

They said 16 months. At least they have more room now and are getting along great with my other chickens.

What is this? I just got 5 chickens that were said to be Bovans Brown. From far off I thought they were mounting. after inspection I find what is pictured below. If you zoom in you can see they are broken off and one has blood. Their necks are also like this. They were brought to auction...

i was told Red Sex Link were great layers and lay one almost every day. Mine are just over a year old. I had 5 and have never gotten more than three eggs in a day from them. I have one away that had a nasty butt since it was young. She much have been laying. Now I get one every few days and two...

My Silkie Rogelio was attacked out of the blue by my dachshund and died the day after the attack. A sweet friend showed up today with these two seven week old Salmon Faverolles today! I thought it was such a nice thing for her to do. I named them Sophie & Josephine and we will call them So &...

Rogelio died just after noon today. 🥲 I loved that silly chicken. Before pics of her with one when she got too wet in the rain and I wrapped her in a towel, rocked her and fed her strawberries. 😂 The other two pics are of her wound. The actual hole in her skin isn’t as big as it looks but it was...

Our backyard is fenced and our chicken coop with an attached large run is in the backyard. We were never letting them out of the run at all. I picked up a few more chickens and I decided to see if the dogs would be ok with letting the chickens out in the yard. It has been going great. One of...

If they are red sex Link, they are hens. They are cross between a Rhode Island Roo and a Leghorn Hen. Hens will be red and Roos are white. (Backwards from their parents) That is how they can sell them to you as hens and bit straight run. You can tell when they are babies. Are they getting...

Is it a tad ironic that Teriyaki and Marsala will only lay in the roasting pan?? 😂 (It doesn’t sit on the floor right inside the coop door, it sits up on a shelf.)

Her four ‘siblings’ have perfectly fluffy butts and are healthy. My Japanese Bantam roo and 2 hens are also perfectly healthy. I don’t see how Little Red’s problem would be anything contagious. I’ll get her fanny feathers clipped tomorrow. Two of those hens laid yesterday!

She was definitely the runt. I called her Little Red from the start because she was so much smaller. She is about as tall now as the others (they are BIG birds), but skinnier and not much comb at all. I read something that if she has a nasty butt you don’t want to eat her eggs. Thoughts?

One of them started laying! another of my 5 Red Sex Links I posted about a while back about having a nasty butt. Still nasty! They are 24 weeks old and she has had a nasty but from the time she was a few weeks old. I have wormed and bathed. And bathed. And bathed. Her comb is also very small...

I had 5 Red Sex Link that are 22 weeks old and still no eggs. They are fed layer pellets and get plenty of grit and egg shells (baked). Ant ideas why they are not laying? My Japanese Bantam and a Silkie are laying fine.

Ok. I will do that. I have seen her poop... it’s not stick.

I have 5 Red Sex Link girls that are 8 weeks old. I got them when they were 2 weeks old. One was the runt of the batch being noticeably smaller, but not ridiculously tiny. Now, the small one has a nasty butt and seems to be at the food a lot more than the others. She has grown, but is quite a...

Thank you for the input. My chicken enclosure is also inside our fenced yard. It is fenced with what mom and dad always called hog wire. Will hardware cloth jeep out snakes? What else can get in through the chicken wire?

I really want to know if my Silkie is a pullet or a roo. How can I tell?

I’m new here! I have been wanting chickens for quite a while and my 20 year old twin daughters decided to just do it. We built an area that is 8’ x 16’ total. The north 4’ x 8’ section is the coop which is 2’ off the ground, 2”x2” roosts along with a branch stuck in there that they like best...