Hi everyone! I bought 20 chicks this past Spring. Four Delawares, six golden sexlinks, three speckled sussex’s, four Easter Eggers, two Penedesenca’s, and one Lavender Orpington. Some were purchased in March and some in April.
So the youngest are at least six months old.
I am getting about six...
I live on a .75 acre lot with an orchard and farm behind our house that my husband’s family owns.
I have about 25 chickens and let them free range during the day. My yard is full of alfalfa and grass and weeds because my husband has zero time to take care of it since he farms and has another job...
Hi! This is my only Lavender Orpington and I can’t tell if it’s a roo or hen. It’s about 7 weeks old. Does any one here have any ideas? Thank you so much!
My 10 year old went to gather eggs from the nesting box just now and grabbed one that was wet. It looked like someone had poured a drop or two of water on it. One of our older chickens laid it and I’m confused how it would have gotten wet. There is no water near this nesting box. Has this...
We have a Cornish Cross rooster that we got from the tractor supply store in March. We had two others that were hens that have already died. The tractor supply store sold them to us as laying chickens and we would never eat them so we’ve tried to take care of them as best we could after figuring...
Yesterday we got 14 eggs! We have 17 hens, but we believe 3 that were given to us are old ladies. Our younger girls have just started laying so we were getting 10/11.
Hi! Glad I found this website! My husband and I bought some baby chicks right around the time Covid-19 shut everything down. Our babies are almost five months old and some have started laying now. We’ve loved having our chickens but we are still newbies and learning everyday. We have 17...