newbie but not totally in the dark

Hi! My wife and I have been to this site many times looking for answers but I guess we assumed we joined and didn’t. We’ve raised American Bresse now for 6 years and 4 varieties of geese to protect them. We have both a website and YouTube channel under the name of Crazy Cluckers Farm. Our...

Hi. I’ve had chickens over 25 years ago. So kinda newbie again. My neice gave me to get started with 8 lavender hens. I drew out my coop and my over production husband made a Hilton hotel coop. So why not get some more🤣. I couldn’t help myself when I seen the chicks and thought well why not! I...

My name is kim and I'm a "crazy chicken lady" and ducks. As of now I have 59 chickens (chicks included) and 18 ducks. I've incubated eggs since last year. I have speckled sussex, wheaten olive Eggers, ameraucana's, white leghorn, brahmas, buff orphington, frizzles, frizzle easter egger...

Hi all, I tried asking this as a response to another post so as not to have too many threads going at once but not getting any replies, so sorry for the duplication here - I have 15 eggs in the incubator on day 23. I was about to take them out and discard them this morning and tapped on them one...

This is my new member intro tread. I’m new to raising chickens. I have 1 Australorp, 1 Easter Egg and 2 Ideal 236. I did have 5 chicks but 1 Easter Egg turned out to be a rooster so I sold it back. I live in the Arizona desert so my challenge is to keep them cool in the summer. I’m building my...

I was fully intending to raise my chickens for eggs only, but I recently learned that 4 (2 RIR and 2 white Plymouth rocks) of them are apparently excellent for dual purpose. I know that I do not want to use the other 4 for dual purpose, just eggs. Is there any conflict with having I guess you...

I am expecting day old chicks and ducklings in about 2 weeks. I am a first time flocker, and am doing all I can to be prepared and to ensure safe, happy and healthy birds. One thing I have been coming across lately is the idea of fermenting the food. I get the jist of it, sure. I do have some...

I have recently purchases 10 Bresse chicks. I have experience with laying hens and this will be my new venture into raising chickens for meat and eggs. I plan to supplement my egg production from my established flock. But I would like to continue to Breed and raise Bresse for my own family as...

please exscuse the mess, having 5 dogs isnt very glamorous and its cleaning day😝 id like to think that the yellows are silkies (i have 3, all look the same) i think the one with brown face/feathers is a BSL(?) but unsure of the black ones with white chests! i have two of the solid black with...

Ok, I was super confident in my ability to hatch some eggs. I hatched a quail in a cheap incubator as a kid so I figured I could do it - but after reading Gail Damerow’s book on Hatching, I’m super worried I’ll mess things up (unhealthy chicks) or get no chicks at all. I’m ready to give up...

(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? I'm new-ish to chickens. We had a flock of 15 when I was in school and I loved them! I'm excited to get back into it and introduce my toddlers to it. (2) How many chickens do you have right now? None. I've been doing the research...

Hi everyone! New to BYC but have kept chickens for 7 yrs now. (Rocky and Betsy are my 2 originals, still laying!) I currently have 23 hens and 2 beautiful boys (BCM and CLB) I started out with Buff Orpingtons, Barred Rocks, and Australorps. After many years of “chicken math,” I now also have...

(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? We have quail! We brought home 351 quail today. One or two casualties in the transport but that's farming. Most are happy and healthy. SIL is a vet and helped us patch up one hen and she's doing well now. (2) How many chickens do...

I started raising chickens last year, maybe nine months ago, and it’s been an adventure with a lot of ups and downs. I love it, overall. We have four hens and a rooster, three Rhode Island reds, two black australorpes (I am sorry, I have no clue how to spell that). We also have fourteen chicks...

Hello everyone! 👋 My name is Angel, and my husband and I started raising chickens about a year ago. It’s been an interesting year with raising a brood, trying to integrate a second one later down the road, and losses :( We were able to train two of our three dogs to protect the chickens, but...

I had a single Aurucana growing up that my mum rescued from a school hatching, she laid green eggs and was best friends with our guineapig. Now I am a grown up (allegedly), I have learned that neither animal should have been a loner! Now I live in the wild mountains of NC and not in the south of...

Hello! :frowFirst off, I'm brand new to BYC and very excited and grateful to have found this wonderful community! I had chickens for a few years in the past, but took some time off after a devastating event which cost me my entire flock in a single day. ❤️‍🩹 This spring, after major work to...

Hi all I’m a midwife, wife and mama of four kiddies now living in Ireland. Love chickens- discovered their awesomeness when living in Australia the past 7 years and have just moved back to my homeland. Setting up a homestead currently (that is the dream!) with garden/veggie planting and starting...

Hi everyone! New here all though I've been using BYC for a while for questions about my birds because it kept popping up on google lol, I am raising chickens on my own for the first time all though I grew up on a farm till I was 13 so i do have a bit of background in poultry care lol I've been...