Hello everyone,
Welcome to Desert Cooping! This is the page for the Desert Valley Chickens! All of the @Desertvalleychickens chooks reside here! 🏠
My Chicken Story:
From 2018, chickens have been my passion. My first flock was made up of sussex and white leghorn hens. Sadly, they got killed by...
Hello all- I was given this chicken as a baby and was told she would be a welsummer , clearly that is not the case. All of the other spring chicks have doubled & tripled in size and even the bantams are larger. She is so pretty and very friendly, but I would love to know if anyone knows what...
Hello, my pekin cross silkie is around 20 days old. I bought him/her from a straoght run and noticed its comb turning orange/red. He/she is really calm and isn't noisy and likes being held but can be quite skittish at times,does this mean it's a cockerel?
It is currently about 60 degrees and sunny where I am. I brought my almost 5 week old chicks out to play and a few of them were laying like this in the sun. I assumed they were overheated and brought them to a shaded area, but I’m not entirely sure. They’re doing fine now. Thoughts?
I have some 4 week old chicks, I know all the other breeds except this one chick who I can’t seem to tell exactly what it is. I thought she was a golden laced Wyandotte but she looks nothing like our other one. Can anyone help out and tell me maybe what breed she or he is? Does this one just...
Hi everyone, thought I'd make a little introduction post since I just made this account. I've had chickens my whole life, but got more in to them recently during Covid. I have somewhere near 40 right now, but that number will be growing shortly. I have many breeds, standard size, bantam, and the...
Not sure this is the right category for this but I wanted to share our DIY brooder! The property we own looked like a hippy commune dump ground when we bought it. There was random junk everywhere and a little 2 room A-frame cabin that needs A LOT of TLC so ignore the mess and the graffiti on the...
Hello,
Figured I'd start a little thread here as I grow my flock. I warn you though this will have ducks too. I will begin by welcoming my newest additions. I just got in some Belefielder, Welsummers, Andalusian, a silver wyandotte and a mystery chick courtesy of the hatchery. In the duck...
OMG! thie morning at about 9:20 i got the call from my local co-op. OMG! ALL PEEFECTLY HEALTHY BABY GIRLSSS. All the right breeds, and all alive! Hoovers hatcher was great! Cutest babies too. I was wxcited to find i got a black turken! I have two adult turkens but both brown. Heres them all...
I ordered 15 chicks from hoovers hatchery and they will be here next week. I own chickens already but i have never ordered them. Ive heard a lot about them dying in shipping. What do i do to help them survive once i get them? I have a homeade brooder, and i am getting medicated chick feed...
HI Friends! I just picked up some new chicks as my flock is getting older. I picked several breeds but three are dark in color I am supposed to have barred rock (love this breed!) Silver laced Sussex (new to me I have speckled Sussex and love them!) and Black Australorps (also new to me) From...
Friday February 14 2023
10:50P.M
Hi all!
So first beginning of this hatch-along, I'm going to fill you in a bit, about what its about.
I have three eggs going into lockdown in two days. Today is almost the end of Day 13.
I can see definite movement in two of the eggs and just pitch black on...
Hello all,
I hope your evening/morning/afternoon is turning out well.
The egg is a coturnix quail egg!
I have 1 egg due tomorrow, my plan is keeping humidity around 50-55% (because I have 11 other eggs (NOT DUE TOMORROW) ) and I think when it starts a pip, I'll raise to 60% as max.
I will put...
HI All,
I posted earlier trying to see if anyone had some guesses on gender of these chicks they are silkie mixes so I know that can be hard one of them is 14,5 weeks the other two are 12.5 weeks. I am hoping that if it is thought these are males that I can rehome them while they are still...
HI ! I had two broody hens this fall and one of my Barred rocks managed to hoard 3 eggs (long story) she hatched one and then left the other two so my very good always broody silkie took over the nest and hatched the other two. I know who the dad is but not sure who the actual momma is, two of...
Hey the last two hatches I did in my Brinsea Incubator have hatched early day 19 and 20.
I didn't think about the temperature possibly being wrong till it reached day 21 and no pips.
Found out the temperature has been sitting about 35.8 Degrees
Is there still a chance they will hatch? I'm...
Good morning from Texas. Just an update on what is hopefully four girls and not cockerels. Too early to tell they are only about 1wk old. TSC was selling them as Lavender Orpington sexlinks time will tell. I love them regardless and if they are boys we will just have a bachelor pad Lol. We have...
I am hoping to find something that could help me tell the gender of my black japanese bantam chick. I'm new to the breed and I want to be able to tell what the gender is and I could only think of maybe someone knowing on here. Please and thank you 🙏