planning ahead

Are you buying / hatching chicks next year ( 2024 )? I’m getting salmon favorelles, Cochin, Orpingtons, and blue red laced wyandotte. What are you getting?

While my birds already have wing bands (zip style), I want to put leg bands on them as well. Even at 7 weeks, those wing bands are getting hard to read with all the feathers getting in the way. Right now, I'm looking at the colored aluminum leg bands from Pinnon Hatch or National Band & Tag. I...

Hi SoCal Chicken Friends! I have had to evacuate due to wildfires 4 times over the last 15 years, but never with chickens. Have any of you? What did you do? Where did you go? Most hotels accept dogs and waive any pet fees for evacuees. However, I'm not so sure that my flock of 5 would be...

(Sung to the tune of "muffin man") I am now permanent at work and proposing to move the next County over (maybe) and also own a place, that will have some CYCENS on it. This is a large amount of Work, but my current land lord is dubious and it is a rental of course. Others have gotten their...

Okay, So I have hatched out a BUNCH of baby chicks this year (all mixes) and I bought about 14 chicks from TSC. Next year I would LOVE to hatch more eggs in my MagicFly incubator! Eggs I’d like to incubate: ~Blue orpington mixes ~EE ~EE mixes ~Sex link mixes (red) ~D’uccle mixes ~Grey Japanese...