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I will do so in the morning, it's 6:30pm now and quite darn outside

My husband helps local farmers with population control with the wild game in the area, so the one farmer gave us some chickens...

No we were told all females...

Can you guys maybe help me identify these girls breed? These main three are sisters. Image quality not so great... Not the best phone. The other two (reddish brown one and the black one I've named Henrietta, long story) I'd also like to know which breed

@21hens-incharge @NatJ This MIGHT be controversial, but I've read that cannabis leaves are a great source of protein. We have a ton growing (came with the house) and of I can supplement with that along with whatever else we have, maybe that could get us through till we can get them the good...

There's no shortage of bugs at least, and tons of other cat and dog food (it's high quality food at least)

I'm a graphic designer, I'm working on a website that's still going to take a few more days. Once that's done and paid, I should be able to get a bag of feed..

Theyre about two months away from laying age Theyre staying in the coop till we're "chicken proof" throughout the yard

Hi all, last night, around 10pm, our chickens were delivered. We weren't prepared for the just yet, our coop is run down and haggard (came with the house) so we did a super quick fix up this morning to make it livable for the new girls. There's 5 (three apparent pure bred, two I'm not sure, will...

Hello! I literally got my first chickens last night so I was in the process of coming on the forum to ask some advice!

It may have been a predator, but you tried your best

Awesome! Yeah.. My country is a little weird with livestock. Alot of it is very rural so you make do with what you have unless you own massive farms with production style farming.

My bad! I checked and it wasn't there so I updated:lau

Will they be able to see it when they join the thread? I think my location is already in my profile but I'll check just in case, thanks for the tip

Poor babies...looking to get my own chickens soon so it's helping tons to learn all these things, particularly diet wise.