back yard chickens

Hi all! Joining this community to further my CHEEK-CHEEK KNOWLEDGE! (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? Super new to chickens! I've been around them intermittently over the years, recently purchased a home, decided in January to get chickens, and just got my little...

Hey ya'll, We were under the impression that we purchased 3 Barr Rock baby chicks from TSC. There was an issue with one of their brooders so they had to shuffle chicks around and therefore all the signage didn't make it to the corresponding chicks. By order of elimination we felt that they were...

Hi! New to Backyard Chickens but excited to be here! I have nine backyard chickens that range from 18-20 months, all have started laying but slowed during the winter/molting stage. They started back up and we were getting eggs consistently for the past two weeks, a few days ago it all stopped...

Hola!! It has been my desire to have chickens for a few years now, my son was like, I've been wanting that too. And before i knew it he bought a few pullets (The extensive vocabulary that I had to learn and still learning!!) We have 7 hens, started with 13. Sold 2, gave 2 away and have lost 2 :(...

Hi, My name is Iris, aka Nana, aka Gameblossom on video games. I'm in Kingman AZ, outside of city limits but still close enough to deal with neighbours. I grew up on a farm in Oregon *many moons ago* but one of my favourite parts (besides picking wild berries all summer and running around my...

Hey guys my name is chickgirllex and I am new to this chicken thing. We currently have a flock of 15 teenager chickens 4 of which are roosters the rest are hens and they are of different breeds... 2 Rhode island, 9 black Jersey giant, two I'm not sure about and two leghorn mixed with jersey...

Does anyone know of any Lavender Ameraucana chicken breeders around the western North Carolina area? I have some RIR, SLW, and EE hens and would love to add a couple Lavender Ameraucana hens to my flock. Thank you in advance for any inputs!

The long short of it is, today I learned one of my chickens was killed while I was away. There is both a fox and a coyote in the neighborhood that animal control refuses to get rid of or help with. We are extremely saddened. Finally home, I noticed that one of my chickens has a bald spot on...

Hello! I left for a little bit but came back. I'd like to introduce myself. I'm Emma (not my real name, I don't believe I'm allowed to say my real name), I live in California, and I have two chickens. Hazel, my 9-month-old Golden Laced Wyandotte hen, and Hope, my year old White Plymouth Rock...

I do not have a coop or even one chicken. The only eggs I have are from Stater Bros. I am doing the research now so I think I can start to be ready when I move to my new place and have the room for poultry. The breeds I have not picked out yet, but I am leaning to a brown egg producer of around...

hello i had started a journal once before but my chicks all died/some were eaten by the dog...anyways my one chanteclair rooster survived he is white. any ways i got him 2 partridge chantecler hens that should start laying soon so i thought i would start a journal i'll try to keep you guys posted