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I need some help please. I made a big mistake and got to many chicks for the area they are in. I guess my eyes got bigger than my brain and since last year we could not lay hands on chicks, I made sure this year we got our fair share. But I just didn't think about the brooder size. We have 14...

I have 4 rhode island blues (3 weeks old) 4 barnevelders (3 weeks old) 4 buff orpingtons, (going on 2 weeks old) 1 olive egger and (2 weeks) 1 silver laced wyandotte (2 weeks) At what point can I tell if we have any roosters. I am not good at judging this but is there something I can look for...

Today I went to get my eggs out, fairly fresh to make scrambled eggs and as I cracked my last egg open, PHEWWWWW, the smell was overwhelming. It smelled like real strong ammonia, so much so that if affected my taste buds as if I dissolved a pill in my mouth. It took forever to wash the smell off...

Can someone make sense of this for me because when I posted this asking on facebook why this is, basically I was laughed at and told that is impossible. So someone has to explain how. At the time I had only 4 hens. ( I have more now but I am speaking about at that time). So two of my hens are...

I have 4 hens over a year old. 2 easter eggers and 2 buff orpintons. I also have 3 month old chicks that we have slowly introduced to the flock. First we tried holding the chicks outside the runner and letting the girls get use to them but they would peck them pretty aggressively. Then we would...

Our baby chicks are about 3 months now. They are getting to be a good size. I am wondering when they can start staying outside permanently? Also I have been slowly introducing the chicks to the big girls who are still kinda being aggressive to them. I know it is a slow process but I am hoping...

We have some chicks that are going on 2 months old. 3 are barred rocks. Where we got them from they said they are normally 95% sure they are female but once in a while they get some Roos. Well, we are not good at determining if they are male or female at this age except just watching some...

We have some chicks that are going on 2 months old. 3 are barred rocks. Where we got them from they said they are normally 95% sure they are female but once in a while they get some Roos. Well, we are not good at determining if they are male or female at this age except just watching some...

Our rooster is being a jerk here lately towards me. I am basically the one who feeds them, give them fresh water and talk to them calmly. On a few exceptions my husband will do it when he is not out of town. But this past week our Roo is being just a butt towards me. If I go to pet one of my...

We have new baby chicks which are a month old now. We received them on Feb 12 which we think they were born around the 8-10 of that month. They were so tiny when we got them. We purchased them from a Rural King in VA and took them home which was a 2 hour drive. Before we got them they came from...

Just how rare are the Lavender Orpingtons and do they normally have problems? We have always wanted the LOs and we finally found some at a Rural King store which is about 2 hours from us. My husband had work in that area was the only reason why was there. They had a few LOs left. So he purchased...

I am so glad there is a forum where I can go to and learn all I can. I am fairly new to the chicken community. Something I never ever in my entire life thought I would be apart of. In fact I hate birds and was very scared of them until I got our chickens. We have two Buff Orpingtons, two Easter...

We have two Buff Orpingtons that always lay the pinkish brown eggs and we have two Easter Eggers that were laying the pretty Bluish green colored eggs. But we have noticed a change in our layers for the past 5 months and now we are struggling to know who laid what. They are also laying at...