backyard chickens

Hiya! I would love to paint some of yall's cute animals (doesn't necessarily have to be chickens tbh)! Send over some cute reference photos, and I'll post the results here : ) They might not be super realistic, but I hope you'll like them! (Example of my art style below) 💕 tyy~

Hey y’all, I have 2 black australorp hens in my backyard and they are currently in a 10x6 run with 2x3 coop. Although it’s said to have 10sq feet of space per bird, even having triple that with each of my birds getting 30 sq ft, they seem to always want more. Now I know this is normal and...

Hi all! I currently have 7 chickens in total, Cochin rooster, Rhode Island Red rooster + his mate, and the 4 others I think might be a silkie/EE mix? Or Maran/Silkie mix? Not too sure and would love to know your guesses? Also if you all agree that I think I might have 2 roosters out of the cross...

Hi everyone! So excited to be a part of this community! My husband & I started our adventures in backyard chicken keeping in October 2020, when we acquired 6 Sexlink pullets (3-4 months old) from a local breeder. As of today, we currently own 19 hens. We have 5 of our original Sexlink hens, 2...

Hello all you backyard chicken people! My family and I live in the Olympia/Lacey Washington area. We inherited four chickens from a neighbor who liked the idea of raising chickens but soon realized it wasn't for them after all so we adopted them. We never thought we'd raise chickens but we...

Hi everyone, We are a family in Fort Mill,Sc and recently received a notice ordering to remove our chickens. This “removal” affects our family deeply since we love our hens and consider them our pets. Could you please sign this petition to help change the ordinances in my city that prohibit the...

A little while back I lost a hen, This was in June of 2020, for a few months the chickens were just using me as a tool to get food. Well later in august of that year the hawk came into the yard. Fortunately I was there and well scared it off, ever since the chickens are coming up to me, letting...

Hey Y’all ! I am a backyard chicken mom and I have two human kids too. Just joining this group after having a few questions over the last 3 years of raising chickens. Here’s to healthy chickens🐓

Watch Commissioner and Chicken Rancher Emily Bonilla explain the benefits of keeping chickens in your backyard and share her own experience as a chicken rancher. Orange County residents, the hearing and vote for the Backyard Chickens Ordinance will be August 10th after 2:00 PM at 201 S...

Hi everyone!! Just got our first chickens 3 weeks ago and I am INLOVE with them. We have 11 chickens but some are straight runs, so it’s a gamble. We have a Brown leghorn, black Jersey giant, black star, blue andalusian, Australorp, silver Wyandotte, 2 gold Wyandottes, 2 black silkies, and a...

Hello! I live in London, Ontario, & im hoping if you all have a couple seconds to sign this petition. http://chng.it/55SxSPsV I am very actively trying to talk with city council to make them amend these laws as the last time this was brought up in 2017, talks of a pilot project never got off...

Constantly finding yourself trying to use BYC emojis elsewhere!? Cause I am. Like... I’ll be on Facebook or Twitter or texting someone and I will literally type out : lau or : love (without the spaces of course). Or I’ll be wanting to use this one :ep or this one :hide because 😱 or 🙈 just...

I came out back early in the summer to check the chickens as we do every AM. I found that overnight something had tried to dig under the coop and appeared to have been successful at entering. We have had chickens for a few years and it continues to be a fun learning experience. The predator had...

2 months later, our chicken coop is done! Man, what a process. Early in the quarantine, we started to talk about getting chickens to fill our summer a bit, knowing we weren't going to be running around with friends and family. After lots of research and budgeting, we targeted a coop style by a...

Hi there, New Chicken mom here. We live in NYC and after reading up on backyard chicken keeping, my husband and I decided to try our hand at raising a few. We purchased 4 Production Reds when they were 10 days old. They are now 7 weeks old. We have a coop that is designed for 4 chickens. The...

Hello all, Yesterday I woke up to the worst news a chicken owner can receive - a fox made a meal from 4 out of my 6 chickens. I was devastated and am having trouble moving on. I just set up the coop and moved them outside about a week ago. I blame myself for letting them out too early in the...

I have a question for ya'll. This is the first time I'm raising backyard chickens and I have at least 5-8 roos around 6-7 weeks old. Obviously, I can't keep them with my flock, it's not big enough. They are BR and RIR. My question is, should I find them homes NOW or wait until they're bigger? I...

HELP PLEASE!!! So, if you’ve read any of my previous posts you’ll know when we got our little chicks we got what we thought was a pleasant surprise when we found out our Favenrolle was a male. Well we have recently seen the dark side of our handsome boy and I just don’t know what to do 😓. First...