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I'm dealing with that right now, it seems like 1 in particular hates the chicks and has killed 3 and injured another 3. I'm going to be trying to separate them next weekend, but I have a trip this weekend.

Do you plan to get anymore chickens this year?

Thank you both for your replies! I will look into it again, I thought I read that last year, but I can be mistaken.

So in the rules for showing chickens in my state, Missouri, the roosters are not allowed to have spurs. How do people manage this? I'm asking because I would like to start showing, and my birds are still very young. So if there is a process that I need to start, I can.

Just writing in here to show off a pretty mixed bird. I think she is Columbian Rock and Whiting True Blue. Or she might be Lakenvelder instead of Columbian Rock. I will know more when she starts laying. And then some pictures of my Orpingtons. I'm really loving how round they are all becoming...

I realized I misspoke on the age of my birds on Monday. The Bresse were 9 weeks old, not 9.5, and the Freedom Rangers were 8.25 weeks old.

There's a guy on YouTube that has some videos about that. They looked like really nice looking birds. I would be interested to learn if there is a noticeable difference in taste between a pure Bresse and a 1/2 Bresse. I'm still growing my Bresse, so I have no idea what the difference is...

Alright, Had a busy weekend, but I do have an update. I sold off 5 of the freedom rangers over the weekend, they were roughly 9 weeks old. I did get some weights before they were sold. The meat birds were in ounces: 72, 67.5, 79, 65.8, 81, 80, 79, 50, 66.5 =640.8/9 =71.2/16= 4.45lbs, biggest...

Wow it's been a minute since I did an update here. I've been super busy with getting my chicken tractors build and working on a new coop with breeding pens. From the first group I have separated out all the boys, and they are now in a Suscovich style chicken tractor. They are around 11 weeks now...

I was wanting to update earlier but wow had it been busy. The first batch of meat birds were moved to a Suscovich style chicken tractor. I added my own swing on it by putting in a roosting bar and a couple of nesting boxes. These guys are ranging from 2lbs to 3.5lbs right now at just past 6...

I had my tomato starts outside and lost about 1/2 of them even covered *sigh* I really knew better. We always seem to get a late frost in April when I try to garden.

The chick is roughly 1 day old now, in the picture it was roughly 6 hours old. If it's still like that when I get home this evening I will. The picture was from last night, I didn't think to check it this morning.

The next batch hatched! This batch is a mixed bag because I just grabbed a bunch of eggs from the chicken tractor that had the freedom ranger hens when I thought my freedom ranger rooster had hurt himself. Luckily he recovered, but the eggs had still been set. So this is a mix of Freedom...

This chick that hatched has a weird bump on their belly. It's not around their vent. Is there anything I can do to help, and will the chick live?

I took a whole day off on Friday to try to catch up on chicken stuff and chores around the house, and I only got a few things off my list. Hopefully can get the chicks moved this week. The average weight for the Freedom ranger chicks was 426.8g, the lowest being 350g and the highest was 496g...

I've decided to take off a day at work and get my garden set up. I have some peppers and tomatoes that want to be outside very badly. And I would love to get my beans and vine plants planted.

Got the weights for the 3 week old Bresse and the just slightly younger Freedom Rangers. The egg layer I weighed that is being raised within the group weight 3.31oz. The Bresse were averaging 6.47oz. The biggest being 8.28oz and the smallest 4.51oz. The Freedom ranger chicks average was...

I'm glad she is doing well.

What about black solider fly larvae? Those are suppose to be pretty high in calcium.

That's when I can move chicken around. I need to collect eggs from the chickens currently in there for my next hatch. Once I get the eggs the space opens up for the chicks. After I clean it up first. Next weekend I have my sister and BIL coming over to help me build another chicken tractor so I...