I have 7 pullets that I am anxiously awaiting for them to come into lay. (Almost 20 weeks old) Three look like they're really ready. The other 4 are not quite there. Anyway, about 5 minutes ago I heard it from inside the house, the perfect egg song! And so of course, I ran outside like a...
My pullets are between 15-16 weeks old. I read somewhere that you shouldn't add any padding/hay/hemp etc to nesting boxes initially to keep the chicks from deciding that it's a good place to hang out and poo. And for the most part, they don't hang out in them, so that seems to be working.
My...
We're new at this so please excuse the noob question. We've had our chickens outside in the coop/run for 2 months now and so far everything is great. It doesn't look like anything has tried to dig under, no indications of mice or anything. We have a lot of possible predators in the area...
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Our chicks are just shy of 6 weeks and the suspense is killing me. We have 7, 3 are autosexing/sex link but the other 4 are "pullets" *with a 90% accuracy from the feed store. I tried getting pictures like the ones in the example, but we're acclimating them to the outside and they...
(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens?
I'm completely new to chickens. We got our first chicks just about 6 weeks ago.
(2) How many chickens do you have right now?
7
(3) What breeds do you have?
Black Australorp
Lavender Orpington
Cream Legbar
Barred Rock
Silver Laced...