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try adding a little bit of honey to the feed :)

if you wet their feed with plain warm water they will eat it

my roosters are friendly towards humans but i never let them on my arms because they have the sharpest claws ever.

both look like roosters to me. maybe the rose comb one could be a pullet

they're not on pellets yet hopefully by that age they'll grow out of it.

About the size of a tin can. I use a tin can to scoop their food. Reusable and if it rusts i can get another tin can easy. Like a soup tin can.

i throw the crumbles into 3 piles so there isn't a lot of competition. afterwards there are chickens that like to eat the single crumbles that are in the dirt. this flock only likes their crumble wet though so i have to put it in a pan.

i'd say it depends on the hen. some chickens are loudmouths. some are not. my leghorns were pretty quiet and they're an egglaying breed, may be good for warm weather. my rhode island red would always go RAAAAAWWWWKKK KRAWKK RAWK RAWWWWWKKKK at the top of her lungs.

when my broiler hen got her tail pecked off i brought her inside with one chick who was at the lowest of the pecking order. look for smaller, less aggressive chicks. that quiets them and makes them happy. make sure it doesnt peck at her tail

I feel like lifespan is definitely an issue with red sexlinks. So many of mine have died from random degeneration after 3 or 4 years, and my hen Honeycomb died due to tumors in her oviduct. They were the only hens in the flock to consistently lay big double yolkers on a daily basis. My black...

My duck loved going broody whenever there was a cardboard box in the coop. When I'd walk by she'd hiss, and when I'd reach over she'd latch onto my arm with her bill like a dog and wouldn't let go, just hanging there mid-air. It hurt!!!

if you have leghorns or other lightweight egglayer breeds you'll have to check their combs in temperatures like that. they can also have their toes fall off from frostbite. i haven't had an issue with heavier breeds, such as my buff orpington hen who literally went missing in -23C weather...

probably wry neck or something neurological, judging from how it walks backwards and especially how it tucks its head between its legs. if you had heat fluctuations during incubation, this could be the cause. supplement it with vitamins and hand feed, make sure it has plenty of liquids. silkies...

18 weeks is general rule of thumb for the earliest egg laying breeds. So sapphires I'd say 18-20 weeks. I think orpingtons lay at around 6 months which is closer to 26 weeks, this is because they are more dual purpose than made for laying eggs.

I'd say its 50/50 chance. One year I got lucky with straight run buff orpingtons from TSC and got 5 hens, 1 rooster. Another year I got 2 silkies and both were roos. This time around I have 1 rooster of the 5 straight run chickens I bought from TSC and Runnings. Pretty good odds. I also have 2...