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If I were to try picking chicks out of a bin of Easter Eggers or Ameraucana, what colors could grow up to be black? I know what color Australorp chick down is, do all chicks with that color pattern grow up to be black?

https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2024A/bills/2024a_1163_01.pdf Yearly $8.50 - $25 fee per pet in addition to any other licensing or registration fees. There is a fine up to $100 per incidence for noncompliance or partial compliance To take effect July 1, 2024 Definitions...

Three containers, each with exactly 10 cups of cold tap water. Three bottles: One with 1 cup of cold tap water. One with 1 cup of cold tap water and one cup of salt, shaken to dissolve all the salt that will dissolve.. One with cold tap water filled to the level of the salt water - about 1 and...

I keep an open water bucket in my coop. I often see people say not to do that in the winter because of the moisture it adds via evaporation. I don't think it adds enough to matter (at least in a well ventilated coop), partly because I don't see evidence of it mattering in my coop and partly...

Um. Yes. At least one has. What up with this? I expected them to start laying again about the end of January. If not later because they are older. This is still December. Possibly, the light is enough different. I'm still not supplementing with artificial light but I have been opening the big...

I don't like it much that they are being dispatched rather than excluded. Also, that the dispatching is not as quick as possible. It is, however, very easy in every way and quite effective. I took nearly everything out of the storage end of the coop after I found the first evidence -two mice...

1) What type of bird , age and weight (does the chicken seem or feel lighter or thinner than the others.) Mocha is a Black Australorp, hatched May 5, 2021 2) What is the behavior, exactly. She seems to be acting normally, for her. She has always been the bottom of the pecking order in a flock...

This thread is to help anyone interested in bone health. Please share and discuss anything that might be helpful.

At what point should I intervene so the hens don't eat too many earthworms? My hens are two years old. Until this week, they have never been out of their coop/run combo. I think they are legal but only due to a loophole in very hostile zoning. Likely, the zoning people would not agree it is a...

How many hours of light does a hen need to lay an egg

I see many places that say hens need 12 to 14 hours of light to lay eggs. Obviously, that isn't the whole of it because otherwise hens would not lay eggs between September 20th-ish and March 20th-ish, unless one lived very near the equator. Last time I researched this, I found that hens need...

Anyone have advice on (non-plastic) boxes for storing canning jars? I've given up on finding grocery store boxes the right size. I tried the heavy duty moving boxes from Lowes or Home Depot. They are almost close enough in length and width; I can make them work by how I make the dividers. I...

In this 1936 study, Link to the results, researchers fed some chicks a standard (for the time) mixed feed. Other chicks were offered each of the ingredients individually. All chicks got cod liver oil in their water for vitamins. Then the amount they ate of each ingredient was measured. And the...

The end of the roost has been the preferred roosting spot since they were blocked from sleeping on top of the walls. After several weeks of contending for it, Mocha took to roosting on the 1x4 edge of the poop board instead of on the roost pole at all. About a month ago, Pepper joined her. I...

https://scialert.net/fulltext/?doi=ajas.2016.182.188&org=11 "...Scavenging Feed Resource Base (SFRB) is defined as those feed resources available at farm level that consists of household refuse and all the materials available in the immediate environment that the scavenging birds can use as...

Please share how you store your chicken feed, oyster shell, and all the things. Pictures, descriptions, ... Maybe what you would tweak... Or do if you could.

I brought Spice, the leghorn, to join my friend's flock. He has 22 (now 23, with Spice) chickens in a (best guess) 15 by 30 barn. Most of them are bantams. They also have a huge outside space - maybe a half acre, with lots of clutter. His flock is also quite used to flock members coming and...

I haven't seen a burrito spice packet in a grocery store for months. There is nothing wrong with tacos but they are different than burritos. And fajitas, I haven't seen that either. I recently discovered it is less expensive to buy a jar of alfredo sauce and a box of noodles than to buy a boxed...

They did not hesitate at downing alewives earlier this summer. The carcass of a nearly 19" bass was a bit more daunting. We filleted it to eat the bulk of the muscle ourselves and I have most of the guts waiting for later. It was still scary when it moved as they tried it. That was yesterday...

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