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Greetings all! I am thinking this is a little roo. He/she will be 8 weeks in two days. Not sure if it is an Ideal 236 or a Leghorn. I ordered a total of 30 pullets; 8 Ideal 236's, 8 Silver Laced Wyandotte's, 8 Ameraucanas and 6 "assorted standards". I have 9 white bird s, so this may be...

I finally finished their enclosure and they are happy ducks!

I have decided to attempt my hand at ducks, as well as chickens. I ordered 4 Khaki Campbell hens and 2 Magpie hens from Ideal. They arrived safe and sound today, along with 8 packing peanuts, which I think are RIR's. All are happy, healthy and settling in nicely. So, I failed at chicken...

I am pretty sure this is a roo, but looking for confirmation He/she is 4 months old, but sure doesn't act very roo-ish. He/she runs from everything. I am waiting to hear the crowing and then chicken soup it is.

I have ten 8 week old Ameraucana's and need some input on their gender. I purchased them from a local exhibitor that delves in color experimenting. I think I have 3, possibly 4 roos in the bunch. One of them I knew was a roo when he was 2 days old when his comb was clearly there. Any...

About a week before Christmas, I replaced my 3 year old layer flock with young pullets. I bought three 8 month old Barred Rocks, an 8 month old Rhode Island Red, an 8 month old Banty Golden Laced Cochin, a 4 month old Aracauna, a 1 year old Blue Orphington, and two 1.5 year old Arcauana's. I...

I just bought some new layers and they threw this little sweetie in for free. Any thoughts on what she is other thane adorable?

My son and I will be processing the remaining 26 meaties in a couple of weeks. We did 4 last week, and surprisingly only took us 30 minutes from kill to fridge. Plucking was much easier than I thought it was going to be. They weren't as big as I had hoped at 6 weeks, so we are letting the...

I was outside about 20 minutes ago sitting on the porch and all six of my girls were fine. I came inside to feed the cats and went back outside to feed the girls and found one of my girls dead! I am devastated and have NO idea what happened. She wasn't egg bound, we got 6 eggs today. She is...

I just changed over the calendar and added up the eggs for last month. Am I weird writing how many eggs a day we get on the calendar?!?!? Our six girls gave us 137 wonderful, fresh eggs last month!! WE LOVE OUR CHICKENS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm not sure if this is the correct area to post this, but I tried to narrow it down to what it pertains to. I got a "survey" in the mail today with the title listed in my subject line, along with a letter from the ISDA. The letter states that the survey is required by law and if I do not...

ARGH! At least one of my Plymouth Rocks is moulting and she is just barely 8 months old. Not to mention it is December, almost January. Why oh why can't I have normal chickens! The temps right now aren't bad, but things can change quickly in eastern Washington! I guess I had better...

Ok, so how long do I give 2 of my girls before I make chicken soup out of them? Four of our 6 girls have been laying for 11 weeks now; but not these two. They have an insulated cop, with extended lighting hours in the morning are only free ranging when I am outside with them. They are all...

The past three weeks I have been sitting at home recovering from knee surgery. Having all this free time, I began the quest for ideas on a winter watering solution. These boards are an amazing source of information and there are so, so many wonderful ideas. I don't have a big flock...

Four of my six girls are laying fairly regularly now and the eggs are AMAZING!!! Only one girl is vocal, the other are quiet as Church mice. I came home to this huge egg! I felt so sorry for whoever laid it that I checked their fuzzy butts to make sure they were OK. Thankfully, they were...

I was just outside and after checking the nest boxes and finding nothing, I began to clean the coop. Ellie, one of my white Plymouth Rocks, joined me inside. She walked right over top of my hand, hopped up into one of the nest boxes and began digging around. After a minute of shuffling the...

I was unloading groceries from the car and I heard one of the girls making the most God awful racket! I thought for sure she was hurt and somehow she had gotten caught behind or under something inside the coop, so I ran, ok hobbled as fast as I could, dropping bags as I went to save her!! As I...

It's official, my neighbors now think they live next door to a crazy woman! I was outside today, cleaning the coop, filling the bird and squirrel feeders, watering the garden, etc. When I was finished with my chores, I grabbed a cup of coffee and sat outside by the girls. As they were...

I broke down and bought eggs while shopping today. While I don't think any of our girls are close to laying, I am going insane waiting!!!! I have worn a groove behind the nesting box, pacing and listening for the ever elusive "egg song". Two of our girls, the Plymouth Rocks will be 20 weeks...

The girls are 17 and 18 weeks old now and today I fashioned a temporary fence for them so they could get out and forage. They had such a grand time and now they are plum tuckered out and are sound asleep in their coop. I guess I will break down and buy the Premier portable fence for them so...