I need your help. I adopted 3 Faverolles chicks. Upon bringing them home, I saw that one had both pasty butt and a twisted foot. I cleaned the bottom and built a boot for the poor thing. The foot straightened out after 3 days. And pasty butt cleared up. However, as pasty butt cleared up the...
Hi. I understand that large breed chickens lay large eggs and hatch chicks that grow up to be large and similarly, small breeds lay small eggs that grow up to be small chickens. My question about egg size affecting the size of the eventual adult bird is when 2 breeds have come together to make...
Hello from Phoenix, AZ where traditional coops can cause heat stress and our winters stay above 30 degrees F even at night! My challenges have little to do with keeping chickens warm. Instead, I am often looking for new ways to keep my chickens cool when the summer temperatures soar above 110...