I know this is a long story, but I have been following this website for 2 years and kept hens for 18 months, and only now, after my utter initial failures and more recent successes, do I feel I have a story to tell. Hope you enjoy, and thanks for reading!
In Feb 2016, I thought it would be cool...
A little less than two weeks ago I bought my first flock of 5! We ended up with two Brahmas, two Road Island Reds, and one Americauna (so excited about blue eggs!)
I am still trying to figure out how to repurpose an old dough-boy pool frame into a chicken run. Any ideas helpful!
Right now the...
Strangest thing happened today between a certain 3-month female chick and my 2-month-old turkey
So I'm sitting there and pick up my white americauna. She's a noisy, skittish chicken, and she is the only chicken I have that makes the weirdest chattering noise when held. She just acts really...
Hi all! I'll keep this introduction short and sweet :-) me and my husband live in a small town in Oklahoma out in the country. Back in April we bought 4 barred rock chicks and four brown leghorn chicks all pullets ...at the time they were three weeks old.
Then when those were around 8 weeks...
Hey there BYC'ers! I got three lavender americauna chicks back in April and they're about 10 weeks old now. Any ideas as to what gender they are? I'm afraid I have all roosters...o_O
Birds 1 and 2:
Bird #3:
All three:
I'll try to get better pics later, thanks!
my husband and I are new chicken owners so I have been using this as constant resource. We got our chickens from a friend who could no longer keep them. We we have an Americauna, Brahma, 2 RIRs and a Cochin. Wanting more eggs we found young black americauna and introduced it to our coup. It...