chickens

Hi everyone! Fairly new to chickens and my neighbor had given me 5 chicks he had thought were pullets. They will be 6 weeks Saturday 10/29. I'm in denial but my guess is Janet and Fiona are roos - thankfully neighbor said he'd take the boys back if so... But have gotten attached to them...

We have a speckled sussex who has been acting weird for a few weeks. She hasn’t been showing many symptoms, but she has been distancing herself and changing her sleeping spots. Her wings have been a little droopy as well. Today we went down to their pen to find her laying down & the other hens...

I took an old carport frame and installed metal roofing on top and upper sides, with chicken wire down lower. 6'x8' insulated and heated coup building for cold weather.

Hello everyone, I'm John. I'm new to this site, and my family is going to start raising their first chickens and ducks in just a few weeks from now. We are getting them as day-olds from Metzer Farms and My Pet Chicken. For the chickens, we've decided on getting some bantams and standard size...

There's a shortage of chicken feed in my area and some one has 6, 50# bags of Ostrich feed for $120. I am considering it since I'm almost out of feed for my laying hens. Will this hurt them??? They do free range a lil bit (2 flocks at separate times) but it's to cut down on flies and...

Mostly decided to join the blog to see about rehoming a couple of roosters. I’d keep them if I could but don’t think it’d be feasible. I had chickens growing up but this is my first flock on my own. We started with 6 and 2 ended up being roosters. I’ll probably stick around for any future...

In honor of the new school year, I thought it would be fun to do picture day for our hens/roosters. all entries must be in portrait form, preferably a picture of their head, rather than their tail. you are required to have a short caption, that includes their name, age, breed (including barnyard...

show me your hens that are over 6 lbs! ps. I've never done a poll before so @moderaters please help me if anything goes wrong!

Does anyone have any success at treating/curing cancer in chickens? I was told mine has it and she has lost all movement in her legs. Has been in a sling for the last few weeks. She seems to keep getting worse and I'm trying to do everything I can to slow/stop it. Have been giving her alkaline...

I'm willing to take any laying hens, any ages(even retired old hens). I love the 5 chickens I have now and would love to get more. I have a large coop that can hold 12+ chickens, so looks quiet empty with only 5 Thank you

I recently got 2 young female rouen ducks along with 1 female pekin. Ever since I’ve got them the rouens bully on the pekin. What could I do? I’ve tried separating the mean ones from the pekin etc. any advice will help! Thanks!!

Hi everyone I own a very small flock (2 turkeys, 4 chickens, some quail and recently newly hatched chicks) I am very new still to owning poultry and theres alot i do not know, but when i initially decided to get them i did alot of researching of what they needed, diseases, common problems, how...

Chilling under the shade cloth roof.

Have tried the usual methods, keeping food stored in metal garbage cans. The use of mint family sprays, even live plants, sometimes that does attract them more, than repel. Use sticky traps, unfortunately a couple small birds got stuck. Poison works somewhat, the good stuff the environmental...

So to start this post it needs to be clear that this is my first time owning chickens, and although i’ve had them for over a year i’m still learning. So i have three hens, and two female ducks who are peas in a pod(?). for the last year that i’ve had my chickens and the last 5 months i’ve had...

I have 15 hens (which is my optimal number) A) 10 pullets | 5 months old B) 3 hens | 1 year and 2 months old C) 2 hens | 2 years and 3 months old So I want to rotate out my old hens by selling them, and buy new chicks every spring. I have been trying to figure out a good schedule…. Which...

My folks and I are in the middle of moving, stuck at an AirBnB, while my dad's boss takes care of my 6 bantams (Silkies and Barbu). Our new house has a shed + attachment that I got to see today, and my babies will be staying in the attachment, which is about 8ft x 8ft, roughly; it might be a...

I have my coop hooked up with lights and timers right now. I have read around a little bit and done some experimenting myself. People say it's best to give the chickens a natural sunset. So, don't have the lights come on in the evening/early night. Is that true? Right now I have the timers to...

Some raccoons got in our coop and we lost three of our four ducks and a chicken. We are all traumatized but we still have one chicken and one duck. The duck is very upset and quacking a lot when I leave her. She also follows the chicken around. Do you think she needs another duck companion...

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...