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I have layer chickens that are in with roosters. Several of them, but not all of them have bald spots on their backs. Do they have some sort of bug or is there something else going on? I know our roosters seem to be quite aggressive as they are in competition with each other. Any help...

We have Barred Rocks, around 50 of them, that started laying just a couple of weeks ago (at 17 weeks of age). Each day it seems like we are getting more and more eggs. Today we got 34 eggs . We decided to put a sign in our front yard, on a fairly busy county highway a couple of days ago and...

Ok, this is obviously a newbie question, but we have approx. 50 chickens that are 18 weeks old that started laying about a week ago. Most of the eggs have been small, but they are getting bigger. We now have a bakers dozen and I want to save the shells from our first eggs. Is there a way...

Woohoo!!! We got our first two eggs in the last couple of days. They are really tiny, though. I think the first ones are usually small, right? The shell is nice and hard though. It is laying next to a nickle for size comparison. Don't know who it came from a Barred Rock or a Silkie...

We have approx. 60 Barred Rocks that are 9 weeks old. We are trying to figure out why they are not all roosting. I would guess that only about 15 of them are roosting. Does this mean we don't have the roosts set up correctly? Can the roosts be at the same height or do they need to be stair...

I've searched the forums and can't seem to find the answer. When can I offer grit to our chicks on a free choice basis? Our chicks are currently 4 weeks old and we have been sprinkling grit on their food. We just built a new wall hanging feeder and have an area to offer oyster shell and grit...

We have been searching on this site and doing lots of reading about the feeders that our chicks will need when they are full grown. We have decided to build one that hangs on the wall (hubby is a carpenter, so building something is just a matter of telling him what I want). We are going with...

So, we have about 50 Barred Rocks that are all almost 3 weeks old. They all are starting to get their "barring" colors at different rates. This one seems to be a bit different and not showing really any sign of markings. I'm starting to wonder if he/she is something besides a Barred Rock...

Is this a good idea or not? I offered to my daughters pre-school teacher to bring in some of our baby chicks for the class to see. The kids will NOT be able to hold or touch the chicks (school rules) they will only be able to look at them. School is about 10 minutes away. I would probably...

Ok, so this is obviously a newbie question. Our chicks are 11 days old (54 Barred Rocks, 1 Easter Egger and 3 Silkies). They are being kept in a brooder in the coop. The coop has a wood floor and is completely secure from predators. It stays right around 70 degrees in the coop and there is...

I am sooooooooo curious. I can hardly wait to find out what he/she will be when he/she grows up. I tried taking some close up photos, but if you need better photos let me know what you need. Chick is about 3 days old. I would really like to know if this is a rooster or a hen, hubby says...

We just picked up our almost 60 chickens on Saturday morning from McMurray Hatchery. So they are about 48 hours old. They have all been so active and lively until mid morning today. Just one of the little Barred Rocks is not acting so well. When my husband checked them this morning...

We went to the McMurray Hatchery this morning and picked up our order of Barred Rocks, white Silkies, some Blue Laced Red Wyandottes and our free rare chick. The BLRW are for someone else. We received 3 or 4 extra Barred Rocks, an extra Silkie (we only purchased 3, but got 4) and the free...

Is there somewhere on this forum where there is a complete checklist of everything you should have on hand before getting baby chicks for the first time? I am looking for something that covers the basics as well as any medicines and stuff to have on hand in case your chicks turn ill. Stuff to...

I am going to go bonkers this week waiting for our chicks. We go and pick them up this coming Saturday, March 17th!!! We have our coop basically done, just need to wire up some lights and the brooder is also set up. The brooder is empty and I can't wait for it to get filled up!!!!! Its going...

So we are still making progress on our coop. Right now we pretty much have a blank slate and we can put our nests, roosts, feeders and waterers any where we want to. Is there any certain way we need to place everything? Our coop has windows on the North, East and West sides. The South side...

So our coop is coming along well. We still have some work to do on it, but it's getting there. Chicks will be here in 10 days!!!!Can't wait!! I haven't been this exited about something for a long time!!!!! We plan to build a run on to the coop. I would like the run to be predator proof so...

Hello, I'm a new member and I have my thread notifications set to daily digest. For some reason I am receiving duplicate notices. They seem to arrive about 6 minutes apart. Do I have something set wrong?? THANKS!!!!

Our chicks will be coming in about 3 weeks. They are on order from a hatchery about 2 hours away. We are going to pick them up and not have them shipped. McMurray hatchery offers to vacinate the chicks against Mareck's disease and Coccidiosis. Is this something we should do, or should we...

Hello, we are new to the Backyard Chicken Board and will be getting our first chickens in a couple of weeks. We have been preparing for them for a couple of months now. We are very excited. We are converting a garden shed to a chicken coop and still have some work to do on it. Our...