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(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? New, 2 days ago (2) How many chickens do you have right now? 4 (3) What breeds do you have? Smokey Pearl Leghorn Isabrown Pearl Onyx (4) What are your favorite aspects of raising backyard chickens? Having fresh eggs and playing...

Hello! For the first time ever I had a broody hen hatch some eggs! Woohoo!!! But now i have questions...Her first two chicks hatched Saturday morning, then another Sunday morning, one Sunday night, and then another is working its way out of its shell right now (Monday morning) So my question is...

I'm not sure if this is the right place to put this, and I apologize in advance for the wall of text. But long story short, we have a bunch of 3 month old chicks, most of them are big enough to go out with the big chickens and integration has been going well. The problem comes from the 4 silkies...

I apologize in advance for the wall of text. But long story short, we have a bunch of 3 month old chicks, most of them are big enough to go out with the big chickens and integration has been going well. The problem comes from the 4 silkies we have, they're absolutely tiny ... Which is fine, I...

So my first time broody hatched a chick yesterday (on Mother’s Day!) and I noticed that when she is interacting with the chick it looks like she nibbles a bit on its beak. Doesn’t look like “biting”, but wasn’t sure if this was normal. For those that have done this before, is this just curiosity...

(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? -I am new to owning chickens, I picked up my ladies today!! I have wanted them for many years, and my fiancé finally gave in! (2) How many chickens do you have right now? Four :) (3) What breeds do you have? Silkies (4) What...

I got my first egg! Proud 1st year chicken mama

I thought he would have larger, nicer looking birds and be able to work with them more if he could be with them starting this year. Then I learned you could hatch fertilized eggs. I figured my daughter, 3, would also like So I bought an incubator and then a dozen eggs. We bought Welsummer as...

My Welsummer adopted 5 chicks for us last year and did such an amazing job that I kicked myself for not doing it this way before! She went broody on me two weeks ago and I brought home some chicks last night. We snuck them in at night, tucking them under and they all (TEN) settled in for the...