ALABAMA!!

[alabamariver]

I have black sexlinks and partridge Plymouth rocks , they are so sweet my black sexlinks are more sociable they are even getting on my shoulders already when I get into the pen to feed them lol I love it

 

[earlyacres]

How fun! When I go out with the feed bucket to fill their feeders, we have one that jumps into the green feed bucket every chance it gets. Cracks me up!

 

[alabamariver]

I have always wanted chickens and this is the first time I have been out far enough I could have them and I am so happy . I never realized how much fun they could be and they even make your breakfast for you lol

 

[earlyacres]

So true! We have more fun in the evenings just sitting outside with the chickens and watching them! They all have their own little personalities and it's so interesting to watch them!

 

[roostercantrell]

and to the community a lot of really great advice and people i am new to chickens as well i have 7 silkies and 2 duucles

 

[roostercantrell]

Hello everyone! Pleasant Grove, Alabama here!
Easter Eggers, Buff Orps (48, 9wks old), Silkies (28, 5wks old), and some wee little 2 week old Iowa Blues (27). Needless to say, we have to thin the flock out, but I had a free range flock of over 50 RIR and barnyard mixes that dwindled down to one lone surviving hen while I was going through my cancer treatments. So now that all of that is behind me, Daddy built me big coop out in the pasture and I turned my daughter's old swingset into another smaller coop in my backyard have become the crazy chicken lady in my neighborhood. We also have a little donkey and a horse and a bloodhound.

sounds like you went chicken crazy after your cancer. congrats on beating cancer and good luck with your renewed chicken adventures

 

[Tomtommom]

I have 3 that have combs and one is behind on everything it still looks like a fluffy little chick and they are all supposed to be the same age. Is it normal to have one that far behind my EEs are 2 wks old and are the same size as the little Buff the buffs turned 4wks old today!

I had one with a weird butt

It looked like an outie, and would get crusted up often. I had to clean it all the time... anyway. That chick did not grow as fast as the others either, took longer to feather out. It has caught up now, still a tad smaller, but otherwise normal.

Any chance yours has a similar problem?

Hello everyone! Pleasant Grove, Alabama here!
Easter Eggers, Buff Orps (48, 9wks old), Silkies (28, 5wks old), and some wee little 2 week old Iowa Blues (27). Needless to say, we have to thin the flock out, but I had a free range flock of over 50 RIR and barnyard mixes that dwindled down to one lone surviving hen while I was going through my cancer treatments. So now that all of that is behind me, Daddy built me big coop out in the pasture and I turned my daughter's old swingset into another smaller coop in my backyard have become the crazy chicken lady in my neighborhood. We also have a little donkey and a horse and a bloodhound.

My husband is from PG, he always seems to know everybody there

We're in Montevallo now, though.

CRAP!!! My little cockerels are starting to crow! I thought they do not usually start until 3-5 months old? Some of them are just reaching 8 weeks. Does Bantam mature faster?

I had one start really early (7 weeks) and I've had some start really late (20 weeks). All depends on the hormones I think.

Hi everyone I knows it's been forever but I have been in hiding since my grandmother passed away she was sick for a few months well now I have a chicken problem. I could really use some advice anything really.


Ok I have had my duccle now for about 6 months. He was a little sick when I got him but it seemed to go away. After a while my large fowl birds started picking on him so I separated him. I noticed he was having a hard time walking straight. I kept him inside until I could build him a little coop. Once I moved him into the little coop I had plans on putting my little Silkie girl in there to keep him company. Well he hasn't really gotten much better, his symptoms are this. He has a very hard time walking straight, I thought something was wrong with his leg and was hoping it would heal itself but it hasn't so I'm beginning to worry if its his immune system. His comb is Pale mixed with red but mainly pale. His feathers are very brittle and around his butt and spaced out among his body he has occasional feathers that look almost like just the folecule no actually feather. Has normal poop and He eats like normal. I'm just worried he is miserable since he can not walk straight. I am planning on taking him to the vet in a hour or two and just pay the 32$ to put him down. I can not cull him myself I just don't have the heart too and once I heard him scream I couldn't go through with it, this breaks my heart and I am balling my eys out typing this and I feel like such a big baby, I love animals and hate that this is even a thought in my head, I just don't want him to suffer any more.

What do y'all think this could be? Am I doing the right thing? I have no one to make me feel better about this since everyone thinks I am stupid for crying over a miniature chicken.

I am trying to eat back in touch with the vet to explain what's wrong to see if they thing they can make him better, he's such a sweet chicken

The feathers sound like something I deal with in one of my birds... I really think someone keeps picking at the area, it's just not growing back at all. I've watched one of my birds eat feathers off another birds' backside, so I suspect it's her. I never catch her in the act (except for once). A bunch seem broken off at the base, others are really thin, just the middle part of the feather.



It could be Marek's, it could be a gimp leg and someone eating his feathers. Hard to tell from a distance.

 

[kaseythomas86]

No mine is otherwise normal it's just smaller. Maybe it's just the runt idk lol

 

[earlyacres]

Haha, ya think @roostercantrell? But, Daddy did build a really big coop, so I wanted around 50. We figured we'd get enough to sell someamd figured we'd lose some (not so much so far).
@Tomtommom, I was born and raised in PG, and so was my daddy and his mama and his mama's mama and so on. We're grandfathered in with livestock and such, so I am taking full advantage of it. Fortunately, my neighbors all love it. I remember growing up out here, everyone had a garden and there were chickens and horses amd goats everywhere.

 

[Tomtommom]

Haha, ya think @roostercantrell ? But, Daddy did build a really big coop, so I wanted around 50. We figured we'd get enough to sell someamd figured we'd lose some (not so much so far).
@Tomtommom , I was born and raised in PG, and so was my daddy and his mama and his mama's mama and so on. We're grandfathered in with livestock and such, so I am taking full advantage of it. Fortunately, my neighbors all love it. I remember growing up out here, everyone had a garden and there were chickens and horses amd goats everywhere.

Heck, you likely know my husband then, if y'all been there so long. Justin Best, his parents were Carolyn and David.

It's nice to have all that livestock, wish we could have more than the chickens, but we're smackdab in the middle of Montevallo.

In due time.. perhaps.