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Sorry to hear of your loss :(

I want cheap though. . . during the day they will be fine in their run with my dog(weimaranar) on the guard, and I will make sure the coop it secure for night time predators. I am ONLY looking for daytime/secure run area material that is pretty cheap

I am hoping to be living in a place where I can finally have chickens again and might only need to build a fenced in run. what is the cheapest/best thing to use for this? I will probably will be going 25'x25' feet or so, maybe larger. I don't think there is a problem with predators where I plan...

This is what I did. I just used some clear plastic sheeting and had it cut into 1.5"-2" strips. I had to push the chickens through it for the first few days and then after that they go right in. worked great to keep the winter draft out

I feel bad for the ones with the deformed beaks, I am sure the other chickens pick on them since they are the weak link, especially with ostriches like this little one, I hear they are even worse than chickens when it comes to picking on each other.

I agree with the vote for "ostrich"

Oh yeah, and mine rarely even tried eating the chicken poo

I am interested in getting back into chickens, does anyone have hatching eggs near Cecil County, MD, New Castle or Kent County, DE?? I am looking for EE's, Olive eggers, (blue, black, or splash) Jersey Giants, maybe a sex link. . featherless leg breeds please I can come pick them up once I get...

My dog went thru the initial stage of being interested in them since chickens were brand new to him. He is a weimeranar(a bird hunting dog by nature and his bloodline). That lasted around a week or 2 but after he realized that they lived here, he was fine. All he wanted to do was steal their...

There is no such thing as breeding for "mailing genes". And the only thing that will make the eggs hatch better after mailing them is the way they are handled by the post office, not certain breeds producing eggs that are better for mailing. its all the bouncing around during shipping that...

Ok, I will def keep you in mind. I wouldnt be ready for chickens for at least several months anyways

Black one looks like an astralorp to me too, the one looks like an egg layin champ Red Star, and then the other a leghorn? def the red is a pullet, hard to tell on the black, and the white may be a pullet too. . the cockerel leghorns start getting a big comb pretty fast

the sussex mixed with an EE sounds like a good possibility to me now that a few have mentioned it

they are decent layers(in due time), big eggs, and you should get probably 3-4 eggs a week. They start a bit later than almost all egg laying breeds because their first 9 months or so is used to fill out that large frame. avg I think is 9-12 months on them for laying. But they are great chickens...

but by 14 weeks shouldnt the chicken have waddles if it was going to grow them? def not wrong color legs for an EE, I mixed my Ameracauna roo with my red stars and had plenty of chicks come out with very light grey color legs(they turned out to be very light colored chickens once grown up, and...

I think its an EE as well, it has no waddles, and has the beard, but the comb has me confused lol the tail makes it look like a cockerel but the lack of saddle feathers is odd if its a cockerel. I would almost bet its an EE cockerel, my first EE cockerel waited almost 5-6 months to crow, then...

I also recommend raising it from newly hatched and handling it daily. makes for such a sweet rooster. Alot calmer, probably wont try to show his dominance as much(which is a reason to crow) and my nicest rooster was an EE, all black with a big black beard/muffs, looked like a raven, he was so...

I also hear that silkies are friendly and not too loud(although my friend who had them, his were loud) but the only thing is that they are just so ugly looking.

I have done some looking around on this and it seems like it just depends on the individual rooster. Alot of people suggesting a certain breed, but then someone saying their rooster of that same breed is very loud. bantams will be quieter because of the smaller size I know that. I liked my blue...

My Ameracauna roo wasn't too quiet, and the 2 EE roo's I hatched out were crowing like crazy at 4 1/2 weeks old and they were both pretty loud by the time they were 8 weeks old.