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My big cuckoo maran roo got himself injured on the REALLY BAD DAY in late February, which I didn't notice right away because I had another roo with a bad limp, a dead hen, and another hen with a notched comb (due to a VERY determined hawk attack). I did notice a couple weeks later when he got...

This week's unwanted daytime visitor was a coyote. I was alerted by the noise within a minute of this video. When the coyote runs off-camera he was rushing the guineas on the other side of the fence. The guineas would retreat and when the coyote was stopped by the fence, then surged around and...

30 eggs in the incubator. You can think of them as either BYM or F1 / F2 olive eggers. The hens are either olive eggers or cream legbars. The roosters are blue cuckoo maran, blue copper maran, or olive egger. They went in last night, and I'm hoping for a hatch rate like I had in the fall: 18...

I have up to 12 available, they will be 2 weeks old this Sunday (11/5). Parents are olive egger, speckeled sussex, cream legbar hens with olive egger, blue cuckoo maran, or blue copper maran roosters. Local pickup only (Cumming, Georgia), $5 each at time of pickup..

I have 5 barnyard mixes that are most likely cockerels that need re-homing because I already have more than enough roosters. The parents mostly cream legbar & olive egger hens and olive egger, blue cuckoo maran, and blue copper maran roosters. They'll be six weeks old this Sunday. Local pickup...

All of them are 5 weeks old. I'll put my guesses out as well as the parentage. First up, parents are blue cuckoo marin roo & olive egger hen. I'm leaning heavily on cockerel. #2.Shy one. Another blue cuckoo maran / olive egger mix. 100% certain it's a cockerel. #3. Olive egger roo and hen...

Some of you may know the story of my rambunctious elderly speckled sussex hen that went missing for 4 days and miraculously turned up alive. She's at least 8 years old and still manages to lay eggs and gets around really well even though she's pretty arthritic and creaky. She's the last of two...

Even when there's more.than enough nesting space, for some reason my hens ofen insist on either arguing over one particular nesting box or even doubling up. A few nights ago three of the broodies slept in the same nesting box. This afternoon they achieved the quadruple nest, in spite of the...

This is my Cream Legbar roo at 10 weeks, that I got from Meyer Hatchery with 5 other boys. He's got two curled toes (middle and inner) on his right foot. He first developed it at about 7 and a half weeks. I can find lots of info on curly toes on younger chicks, but very little on a bird 8+...

I originally thought this one was a pullet from my mixed rooster order from Meyer (2 each cream legbar, blue copper maran, and blue cuckoo maran). They were short 1 legbar and sent me what I thought from the lack of comb development & the different feathering he was a she, but I'm pretty certain...

Something took one of my chickens yesterday, I'm thinking afternoon to dusk. Didn't notice her gone until I did the nightly head count and was one hen short, and didn't find the kill site until sunup. They free range in an area with a 5' high wire fence. There's no really large gaps for...

So, I bought six day old chicks from Meyer, supposedly all males. They're now just under four weeks old. #1 is a cream legbar. I'm 100% sure it's a he from his initial coloring. #2 is a blue copper maran, which I've dubbed "moon boots" due to the already outrageous leg feathering. #3 is...

Apoligies if this isn't the appropriate category, as this isn't really either a disease or emergency. I've got this ancient speckled sussex hen, the last of a quartet of chickens that just showed up at my mother's house seven years ago. She was at least a year old then. When we started...

As a few of you know, I have a mixed flock of free-ranging chickens and guinea fowl. Most of them were newly acquired late last August and I raised them together. Depending on who you ask this is either the greatest idea in the world or the worst (there does't really seem to be any middle...

This afternoon I noticed one of my 18 week old Cream Legbars was making an odd moaning / wheezing kind of noise. I thought she was distressed but when I looked at here it seems to be a sound she's making while breathing (kind of like if she swallowed a kazoo). She's not showing any other...

This just some observations of my experience with my (mostly) new mixed flock and the coldest temperatures I can remember in the 25 or so years living here. A little background: The flock I have is mostly new birds: 15 pearl guinea fowl and 14 chickens (8 cream legbars and 6 olive eggers)...

Caught this new visitor on my trail-cam about 100 yards from the house (the Raccoon is for a size reference) Anyone have any first-hand knowledge of their habits (preferred feeding times, etc) & how to deter / get rid of them? Most of what I've read (which isn't much) indicates they're somewhat...

My luck being what it is, of course I lose a chicken to a hawk attack on Thanksgiving and of course it's one of the two unique birds in my new flock. On the plus side the Guineas did a good job raising the alarm and making life difficult for the hawk & I was able to chase it off before it could...

My bird are now 9 weeks old (you can look at some older pics from last month here: https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/new-member-from-north-georgia.1550229/) On the guinea side of the flock, I think I have 5 to 6 males based on relative size, the calls they make, and so on. For example...

So, the standard Q&A: (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? My family has kept chickens off and on for over 25 years. (2) How many chickens do you have right now? Lots! (3) What breeds do you have? My old birds are one each speckled sussex, rhode island red, and one...