first time chicken owner

Hello my name is Carleigh and my husband and I recently bought 2 week old chicks in which are now 5 weeks old! I know I have two assorted Wyandottes and the other two I am unsure. Tonight is their first night outside full time. I have been keeping them out during the day for a week. I live in SW...

Hello everyone! I'm a brand new chicken owner and proudly raising 6 hens ( 3 barred rock and 3 light brahmas ). I just found this website through a google search and am looking to share my story with other chicken owners and learn about how to best take care of these chickens . Thanks...

Order chickens online they said. It will be fun they said… So we did. We went to craigslist and ordered six starter pullet hens of two different varieties. Three Light Brahmas and three Barred Rock hens. We got our coop cleared of wasp, and set up an electric fence around the perimeter of the...

hi. we are first time chicken owners and when purchased were 99 percent guaranteed they were all laying hens. they are about 4 1/2 months old and one is laying eggs already. just cracked an egg open for the fist time this morning and from what i've read online, it looks to be fertilized which...

Chicken friends!!!:wee I’m so EGGSTATIC! :celebrateMy blue girl laid her first egg for us today!!!:woot It’s so tiny! Will they get bigger as she continues to lay? Pictures attached! :fl

My cousin recently give me five Easter egger and I'm new to the whole chicken thing. I've tried reading up one how to tell a hen from a roo, but in all honesty I'm more confused then ever. Can some one please share their opinion about what sex my chickens are? Any other tips would also...

Hello, My name is Katelyn and my husband is Erik. We are semi new to raising backyard chickens. He was worked on a veggie farm from the age of 9 till 18, I grew up in the city and know close to nothing about raising chickens. I've read a lot of posts on here and decided it was time to join...

Hi all, I am currently having my first experience with broody hens. My husband has been doing the main chicken chores of feeding, changing water, and collecting eggs. When he went to collect the eggs, our first broody hen (white bird) bit him and he left her have the eggs. That was a few...

Hi all! :love I have just been given the green light (a positive maybe) to begin my first flock! I just wanted to start a thread on breeds that will be good for this semi-first timer. My ideal traits are... Smaller breed; working with a pretty average amount of space Okay layers, will...

I've spent most of my time so far in the coop/run forums and I am so excited to make the jump over to here. I'm a first-time chicken wrangler and am set to pick my chicks up at Meyer Hatchery on May 28th (I'm lucky I live only 45 minutes away!!) Here is what I have ordered: 4 buckeye females...

Hey All, I have four 3 week old chicks. I was told the 2 multicolored chicks are Easter Eggers and the other 2 are sex-link Buff Leghorns. Can anyone help me confirm this, please? Also, is it too early to tell the gender? These are my first chickens-I am very new at this. I want to make sure I...

Hello all! First post on here, though I've been reading around and collecting some information! My fiance and I are looking into getting some chickens over the coming weeks but this is all very new to us! He's thinking he wants 10, but I'm thinking 4-5 is a much more realistic number for us...

Hi All! I noticed one of my leghorns and one of my RIR's are just starting to squat. How long do you think til they lay? One of my RIR's was squatting and laid her first egg about a week later. Not sure about the leghorn though. They are all around 18 1/2 weeks old. Any ideas or guesstimations...

Hello All! My husband and I just got our first flock of chickens this year! He has wanted them for a few years now and I have not, knowing that I would be the one who ends up taking care of them. I finally relented thinking, "okay now that he has permission, he'll give up and not want to get...

Hello all, I'm a first time chicken owner who is very worried about her birds! I have 12 chickens who are almost 11 weeks old now, all larger breeds. All seemed fine until a week after they moved out into their coop. I have tried vetrx and it doesn't seem to be doing too much. Will post a...

Hello! Im new to all of this but My husband and I are raising chickens for the first time and though we ordered a pullet run (knowing there is always a small percentage you will get at least one Roo) Im wondering if one of our Americaunas (which I'm pretty sure is an EE) is a hen or a roo...

Hi guys. I am a first time free range chicken owner. I purchased 1 black Orpington girl, a white (ish) polish girl ( I think) and 2 silkie/Polish mixes. They were 6-8 wks old when I got them which makes them currently about 12-14 weeks of age, the black Orpington (Matilda) being the oldest and...

Hi! I’m Meghan and I have had my girls since October 2017. I have 4 and love every second. Betty is a buff Orpington, Darla is a barred rock, Polina is a Russian orloff and Twiggy is an Easter egger.

Okay so maybe about three weeks ago i took home five baby chicks that were hatched in my biology class.One of them being a smaller one whose egg sac(or at least that's what I was told it was) grew on the outside of her body and dangled. It has then fell off and she appeared to be fine. She...

Hi everyone! So my chickens are almost 5 weeks (friday) and they have most of their feathers. I live in GA, and its warm outside right now. My brooder bulb blew. I was going to shut it off next week so they can acclimate to the temperature difference. My question is- would it be okay to put...