hand raised

Hi! I have at least 4, possibly six young silkie cockerels to rehome. They’ve been hand raised and we spend a LOT of time holding them and cuddling with them. I really need to find them homes quickly, they’re starting to get very annoyed with each other! One of them has a curved beak, but he is...

Hi, I have a ~4 week old quail that I've raised from an egg and was the only survivor of its clutch, being raised inside my home. When it's old enough it will go outside, but in the meantime lives inside a bunny hutch in my spare room. I was wondering, how likely is it that quail have the...

I have 2 Ameraucana-mixes (I'm not sure what the mother/s was/were as there were several different breeds in the flock) that I'm looking to re-home. They hatched 6/21/2021 and were hand raised, so they have been as decent as a rooster can be with people so far. They are really beautiful birds...

This is mostly just a curiosity thread to hear about the unique vocalizations that everyone's chickens have, as I've come to realize not every hen clucks the same. 😁 For example, I have two 3 month old Black Australorp pullets (whom we lovingly call the Twins) and both of them loudly honk...

I just got a variety of 10 pullets that are all about 2.5 months old. I want to handle them and get them used to me and tame. What is the best time of day to handle them? So far I have been handling them at night while sleeping. Is it better when they are more alert during the day? Is it...

New from the biggest Little City in the World! I’m new at raising chickens as in not to eat! They are my daughters pets. I have a Rooster , and a Pigeon, Quentin. Hurley is his name. I lost his father and so this is how he became my pet!

We are looking for a new home for Tiny Terri, the white bantam cochin, who's an absolute darling but really looks to be a cockerel, and we're not allowed to have those here. He's been hand-raised since he was a day old, and spent lots of time with people and is well socialized. He won't be the...

Hatched (from a light brown egg) and brooded in our home, now fully integrated with established flock (along with hatch mates), handled daily by adults and children (enjoys a good lap snuggle), free ranges the backyard problem free with two cats and a golden retriever. Outgoing, not...

So earlier this year i hatched out 6 gambels quail, they are almost 10 weeks old now. well turns out 4 of them are males, they have not started fighting or pairing off with the 2 females yet, but im beginning to wonder whats the best thing to do with them. There's reasons to not just release...

Hi, I’m new to hens and my broody had chicks a couple of weeks ago. At the moment, we don’t have the right coop to keep predators away from baby chicks, so we’ve separated them from their mother unfortunately, and we’re hand rearing them, as some predators have sadly killed the other chicks and...

Does anyone have experience trying to get a solo chick to make friends? * * * I have 3 bantam hens in the city, all of whom have a low-level sniffle/sneeze. I believe it is coryza since it never goes away. Before I "diagnosed" the coryza, we had a really bad hatch in the spring that resulted...

can some one help me we have a poorly chick I have just checked on her and she has a lump on her neck and her eyes was cover in mud ? I have tried to clean her up took her away from the hen and in a box, with water food and bedding along with a teddy. she is all snuggled up im just trying to...

So I've been moving around a lot and Baffy my rooster lives at my grandparents in the coop with the other chickens and is angry that I don't live there anymore and he's forced to be an actual chicken (he was hand raised by me and dislikes coops). He gets very excited when I come visit of course...