flock care

Hi all! My name is Stefney, I’ve recently acquired chickens for the first time. I live in South Africa, in the suburbs of Pretoria. I have 6 chickens at the moment: all of them are Orpingtons (2 x full size hens, 3 x bantam hens, 1 x bantam rooster). Please give me all of your best advice for...

Hello! I am new here and this is my first question. I purchased 13 chicks and I have 3 roosters among them. One has crowed at 6 weeks, which is very early I might say, and the others have bright red combs . I have been convinced to keep one rooster. What do you recommend I do to remove the...

Sorry, this is long but I’m hoping for some advice!!! We live on a small lake with 7 other homeowners, each 5-12 acres. A neighbor (call him neighbor K) bought 2 pair of Chinese geese and raised them from goslings. Unfortunately, within a year or so, 3 of the 4 had been killed by coyotes (we...

Hello, I just recently had one of my chickens die due to the cold and infection complications. I realized her comb was very dark and cold throughout the whole time i was tending her in my house. My other chickens don't have it as bad as she did, but I fear they might. Anybody might know what...

Hi, all. I just needed to share my situation with people who will understand. I've been keeping chickens for 1.5 years, not long. The learning curve at times has been steep, and so has the joy! As we speak, I believe I may have made the mistake of introducing a rooster with Marek's to my...

Hello - Looking for information on how long to quarantine baby hatchery chicks from chicks I hatched at home. All are less than a week old currently. Thanks

My hen just hatched a clutch. Three out of five survived. Based on colors I’m pretty confident one is female and one is male. The other is probably male but I’m unsure. My chickens free range so the rooster has the run of the three acres while my hen is in a pen with the chicks until they are...

Ok so I figure since everyone I know always wants stories on my birds I might as well start a thread here where all ye chicken lovers reside! This will be about all my birds from ducks, chickens and pigeons, to small notes and interactions with my other animals. Dogs, goats, cats etc. Along with...

Hello everyone! Over the years I have found Backyard Chickens to be an extremely helpful recourse and am happy to be joining the community! My name is Nina and I've been around chickens my whole life. Growing up we had a whole barn for them and a fenced field for them to roam. Later on my...

Not sure if this is the right place to post this or not. However here I go... I saw this article today about hipster farmers discovering chickens are labor intensive. This had me scratching my head confused by this. For me, the coop was the most labor intensive thing maybe. Other than the coop...

Hi! I have 6-10 young (2-3 month old) pet roosters and hens coming to live on our 5 acre veggie farm. It is 2 miles away from our home (where we can’t have them) and my husband thinks this is a bad idea for the birds. I will be there morning and night all seasons to open close coop, feed...

Meet our new security( Lory). This guy is a tough one I guess the copper marans rooster gets used to the big guy. I plan to use my copper marans to produce pure black ones and some olive eggers. I await more chicks to join the flock this weekend.

Hi everyone. I was just discussing this with @penny1960 over at the Old Folks Home and she gets credit for coming up with this idea for a thread. I was just diagnosed today with osteoarthritis and borderline rheumatoid arthritis. Starting shots this week. In the meantime, I have a flock of over...