I have a friend in Parkland who needs to give away her two Peking female ducks. They were born last Spring (so a little over a year and a half) and they lay regularly. Free to a good home. Parkland is close to Spanaway.
Hi all,
I have four chickens, all hens, one Wyandotte, one EE, two Buff Orps. They're all the same age (7 months old) and have all been giving me about 1 egg per day since they were 5+ months old (give or take a day here and there). The EE of course, is the only one giving us blue eggs, so...
Hi everyone!
I live in Covington/Maple Valley and we only have 4 chickens (2 buff Orpingtons, 1 Wyandotte, 1 Americauna (Easter Egger)). They are 5 months old at the end of this month and we're excitedly awaiting eggs soon.
For the last 6 days, we've had this visiting buff Orpington, older...
Hi all,
I've finally put the 12-week old chickens in their permanent home (I had been bringing them in at night and it became quite the routine). They've slept all night in their coop which has a run attached, but I am having a hard time getting them to go up into the coop at night. See pic...
Never have seen this... but who says a chicken isn't sensitive? U-tube vid.
http://blog.petflow.com/i-thought-this-chicken-was-going-to-attack-him-but-this-totally-blew-my-mind/
Hi to all,
We were thrilled to find the BackYard Chickens website and forum since we are very, very new to chicken raising. My husband bought me a book on raising chickens and we've talked about it and researching it ad nauseum for the last 13 months and we finally took the plunge last...