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This is my first round keeping chickens. I had something like 9 males in my order of 30 chicks. All of them were aggressive to some degree except 1.

The problem is chicks getting out of the the run early in the morning before I let them out. Need smaller wire for the little cheepers.

Are cats known to leave the gizzard? The neighbor has a bunch of feral cats. I kind of thought a cat would pluck more feathers though.

Something at one of my 4-6 week old chicks this morning. The only thing left behind were the wings, feet, and a very cleanly removed gizzard. I’m thinking feral cat but I really don’t know.

Something ate one of my chicks this morning. She was about 4 or 5 weeks old. The only thing left was the wings, feet, and gizzard which was very neatly and cleanly removed. I’m thinking a feral cat but really don’t know.

you need to get rid of all of the males except 1 or 2. many ways to go about it but it needs to be done and dragging it would only makes sense if you plan to eat them. It is important to remember that you have a flock of chickens, not a bunch of individual chickens. too many males is a big...

in the summer a normal lightbulb will probably be enough. with no draft they can generate a lot of the heat they need themselves by packing together in a corner. Chicks are tougher than you would think! just watch them the first few hours, you will be able to tell if they are too cold.

Get some stuff the little ones can hide under or in but the big ones can’t. I use old mineral tubs with holes cut in them for the chicks to hide in. They will get used to each other. The little ones might get terrorised for a week or two.

There seems to be a lot of demand for BCMs that lay super dark brown eggs. I would focus on that first then add the legbars in for olive eggers.

I am going to start holding back and breeding my cream crested legbar x buff Orpington crosses in an attempt to make my own back yard breed. How hard will it be to make them autosexing? What will the gen 2 crosses look like when they have 2 copies of the cream gene? Any advice on breeding...

Get a bowl and mix up a couple tablespoons of mayo, some sliced garlic, seasoning salt, and soy sauce. Stuff this concoction under the skin, and smear it all over the outside of the bird. Bake in the oven as usual. Catch the drippings and make a gravey.

Also your coop looks super clean! I would be thrilled to have such a nice set up

What about a thick layer of chunky wood chips

Hey everyone. I am looking for tips on how to breed for egg production. So far my attempts have been to simply hatch the largest best looking eggs I have. I have 14 hens and I suspect 2 or 3 of them are not the best layers. Also many of them lay medium size eggs and I am looking for large or...

toss all the suspect eggs in a bowel and nuke them for 2.22 minutes then feed em back to the chickens

I think I would like to always keep a couple of buff orps. I like their color. I like how friendly they are and I like how they go broody. On that note a whole flock of buff orps sounds like a nightmare lol.

the only danger i can see of one being too big is if multiple hens can fit in it. I think this is only a problem when one is trying to brood and another wants to take over the nest.

2 orpingtons is a small sample size, if you like them i would say get more. 3 of my 5 went broody their first year. I wouldnt be surprised if the other 2 will also brood at some point.

I have a blue rooster and buff orp hens. None have been sex links. All black with buff leakage so far.

Danzig. Blue Australorp.