I bought six chickens from TSC in the store on March 8. All are doing well. It may well depend on your area. Several years ago, I bought some chickens from the local farm store and some from TSC. The TSC had a better survival rate.
Quite a few years ago, I purchased 25 from a hatchery and...
We also are outside of Seattle. I think in a week or so, they can go to the garage but I chose my spare room to put them in because I'm not so cold when I go to visit them.
Guess I am going to wait and see what happens. I know I can return it if it does turn out to be a male. I just hope that at least one of them is a female.
i just recently got this Wyandotte. I think it would be a splash. Over the last several days, the wattles have started to come in. I have also noticed that s/he is always trying to jump on the little Silky. Both were hatched around the same time.
I found it helpful to simply mix soft foods (yogurt, etc.) with the chick crumbles. They are use to the texture of the crumbles and I found that they were very hesitant with new textures.
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I like waiting about 6 to 8 weeks to put my chicks out - you don't want them to be able to go through the fencing and you want it to be warm enough. When you put them out will depend to a degree on where you live. On a different note, when I had hens hatch out chicks, they had them out...
I would say you have what is commonly referred to as "red star" or "red production" -- they are a hardy cross that will give you an egg a day. TSC often sells those and leghorns. The red star and black star can be sexed easily so if they were in the pullet bin they probably are pullets. Your...
They need to get use to you -- try picking them up for a little bit each day so they get use to you and the feel of your hand. Soon they will look forward to you paying attention to them. I would recommend that you go easy on the treats. If you do give them treats, provide some grit (dirt has...
My coop has a dirt floor. I add pine shavings and dry leaves. I use to have a poop board under the roost but have discovered that the birds will scratch enough to compost if I remove the poop board. Every 2-3 months, I take the entire coop back down to natural dirt, add more shavings and leaves...
I have 18 hens...one rooster and he is more than enough at his young age. For example, the older hens make sure they stay in the house first thing in the morning to stay out of Buster's way. A partridge that I have could take some lessons from them...she manages to keep a bare back even thought...
We chose a Buff Orpington. I actually chose the least aggressive one out of the spring roosters last year. I haven't been disappointed. He protects his ladies without getting aggressive towards us. And, he's rather pretty as well.
You might want to put this over in the emergency section. There is a sticky that will tell you everything people will want to know. They will want A LOT of info in order to help you. I would keep an eye on her -- some questions will be:
--what are you feeding her
--what does her poop look like...
If they don't crow, you can have roo's, right? Most of my roos were crowing by the time they were 16 weeks old. The one excection was the one I kept. He does crow but not very much. I rather miss the crowing contests...
I would wait for a crow--I've had some I could have sworn was a Roo...and I...