Recent content by CoastChick

Edit to add … 13 weeks old.

Unfortunately, two of my chicks that I got this last spring are crowing and I cannot keep them. I have inquired if my local vet has a bulletin board or a share service for locals in the area that may want to be adding two young cockerels. I have posted locally on Nextdoor. And in a local’ish...

I am currently integrating my 13 week olds in with my two-year old hens. While the two groups have their own coops, when they are free ranging during the daytime the little girls seem to have a fascination with getting into the big girl feed in the big girl run, which is a layer feed of course...

Um - F&F!?! We must be neighbors! 😁 Best place in town to pick up chicks!!

😂 I already have 2 sweet boys that I’m looking for homes for. I swear there’s a larger-than-normal amount of boys hatched this spring. Boys everywhere!

I have wondered too. The sign on the pens said lavender Wyandotte but the sign up front of the store said lavender Orpingtons … sooo? She’s such a big girl though - 3.5 lbs at 13 weeks - she’s bigger than both my boys.

Soooo, please tell me no. My Easter Egger… might be my 3rd roo?? This is 12 weeks old EllieMae. No boy sounds, comb looks pink to me and scrawny legs - but I’m getting a vibe from feathers. And she repeatedly has been bossing around my barnevelder boy. So far 2/5 from my supposed to be female...

Oy! TONS! She seems like she’s been molting for weeks also! 😂

I have a 12 week old Lavender Wyandotte -or is she an Orpington? (The feed store sign was inconclusive 😁) Emmilou has the weirdest comb and curly feathers. It could be a rose comb - which all my other Wyandottes seemed to have but it has this wee little nub and is otherwise flat? Is this a...

I have a 10 week old, who I am hopeful is a pullet- she looks to have more rounded feathers, soft features, beautiful eyes, mustard legs, but she has a bright comb and adorable little wattles. I have a little Easter Egger cockerel who started growing last week.. also 10 weeks old. His feather...

My 6 week old EE only does this with her human sister, she climbs all over me and my son but she seems to do this chirpy purr with my daughter. What could she be saying?

My EE, Fiona Patsy is hilarious in her antics… but I think this one is probably rooted somewhere in natural behaviour - but why? She’s not my only hen to do this, after laying, she will start pulling up her nesting box (excelsior) material and piling it on her back. ?? At first, I was thinking...

Vet game me meloxidyl (anti inflammatory) for her and she had it 2x day for 10 days. I also gave her poultry cell pellets mixed in her food. It took her about 6 weeks to get back to normal walking. During that time I kept the roosting bars out of the coop. Separated her with her two sisters from...

Lifetime? I’ve never heard that before. ? It was Sulfatrimeth for 10 days and we are 2 days post meds. Standard googling said 10 days after meds ended.

I hate to toss them? But I can’t imagine they should be put in compost - wouldn’t that contaminate the compost? And if I cooked them up and fed to chickens, wouldn’t that be prolonging the withdrawal? Not to mention exposing the other girls to the antibiotics? What do you do with the eggs laid...