This white keet has a white poof behind their head and they have a bigger bump and more almost electronic like call. I got them at atwoods exactly one week ago and they all had pin feathers on the wings and the rest of their bodies completely covered in down. This one also is more alert and...
I have three free range chickens all roosters but two are thirteen weeks. I have some guineas that are a week old. Do you think that the guineas will get along with them. I’ve heard they kill roosters and I have a very protective rooster in my main run so they can’t live there because he...
These two got the boot because they were called roosters by y’all and now they’re tic control and will be getting some Guinea friends too after the guineas grow up. So now they are out of the run eating tics and then I was outside sitting down and the buff dipped Orpington (lavender Orpington x...
I have a buff Orpington and before she went broody she went BOK. BOK BA BOOOOOKKKKKK like the other ones when she layed or was scared but now she goes Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha like a how one of my family members laughing rooster crows. Is this normal her babies are almost independent and I’m wondering if...
I was stunned to see what my rooster did when he saw his chicks he didn’t show aggression he just walked them towards the rest of the flock and layed down next to them to snuggle. I have 3 adult roosters two in my run and one that just showed up one day and lives in my yard now and all three...
I have been feeding my chickens all flock 17% protein pellets with some scratch that is just ground corn and tiny red seeds, so what is grit. I know it’s rocks so are they good if they have some mulch and multi purpose sand as a run bedding
My neighbours dogs have been getting out repeatedly and I’m done, yesterday they were tormenting my poor chickens and making them go nuts. Ive posted about this before but now I’m mad and want more help. What can I do without them knowing I called animal control or knowing I killed the dogs. She...
I have a broody hen who has eggs hatching right now and her first chick she takes care of and keeps warm and is sweet to it but when I put a light on and she sees it’s not an egg she’s mean to it I put it in my brooder room with a towel to cuddle and food with some water with pebbles so it’s not...
I have a chick that was in a brood of six, I gave one of its sisters away and she was with four more chicks then randomly they dropped dead all but this one. Now it’s been in my storage room for over a month and is ready to be outside. Today when I got home it was out of my run looking for me...
This is Red my lavender buff Orpington mix and I think Red is an early bloomer. Red has the same wing shape as the hens and same tail her half brother has a bigger comb and wattles. I just wonder because I’ve had an early bloomer she looked like this at this age too and once they all hit...
Hello I’m new to shamo my cousin is raising some and I’m getting a hen. This is a thread for tips and coop designs plus some cool mixes on the rare and tall shamo!
There’s a wild rooster that hangs around my house it doesn’t have a home it just hangs in my yard he looks like the picture below and the bottom picture is the best one I have of him because he is super skittish.
I am breeding lavender x buff orp the chicks are technically pure Orpington just a weird Color like their head was dipped in buff Color paint with a black body if nobody has came up with a name I am thinking calling them buff dip Orpington’s