My husband and i have always wanted to have a small farmstead and this year we were able to add chickens to our lovely garden !
This is our first time owning chickens, but we've raised parakeets and other birds before.
We currently have 11in our small flock 5 Easter Eggers, 3 black sex links...
Yesterday, we were surprised by our first egg. It was a small, brown egg and it was laid just outside a nesting box. Today, we found another egg. This one was slightly bigger and a lighter brown, laid inside the nesting box. We believe that the first egg was laid by our Black Sexlink and that...
Couldn't find the exact month i bought our 3 black sexlink and 3 amberlink chicks at a Tractor Supply in spring, but they're all at sexual maturity now, though the hens haven't begun laying yet.
However as the chicks matured, 2 began to display every male chicken characteristic, and yet every...
hi I’m new here. I’m Laura, I live in Sheboygan Wisconsin. I have 8 chickens and two ducks in my back yard along with two dogs two cats and four kids! We got them all last year so I’m still fairly new but an obsessed bird mama already. I’d LOVE to keep adding to my flock but our yard isn’t big...
Hi everyone!!!
We bought a home 3 years ago that came with 5 RIR after I begged the owners to let me keep them.
I fell in love with chickens and so we bought 5 more baby chicks this past St Patty's day 2018.
I got 2 black sex links, 2 buff orphingtons and one Dominique. They are growing so...
So I probably can't get any more chickens right now and even if I did l, I have other breeds I want to try first but when I first got my chickens two years ago, one of the breeds I was considering was sex links. I decided against them because I read they don't tend to live long and tend to have...