#chicken

  1. horsesaremypassion

    My introduction.

    Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? I am kinda new to chickens. I've my baby girls (chickens) for a year now and I'm loving taking care of them. How many chickens do you have right now? I currently have 4 chickens but I am hoping to have all the chickens in the world...
  2. J&Kfeatheredfowl

    Pheasant with ducks? Or chickens?

    Hey, the past few days there as been a female pheasant chilling on our allotment, and we can get as close as half a meter and she simply doesn’t mind, we’ve been leaving corn and water for her. She seems to try to get to the chickens. And then stops when they come out, as if she wants their...
  3. Polish Hen House

    Hello, I'm new here

    Hello everyone! I just joined Back yard chickens. I own five hens: two white-crested Polish, a Jersey Giant, a white Maran, and an unknown breed. I am really excited to learn new things about raising my chickens. My hens are suburban hens. If you have any chicken related questions just ask and I...
  4. Chickenlover8814

    Help Needed!!! Broody hen!

    Hi everyone, I have a Blue Cochin hen that went broody about a month ago. We gave her some fertile eggs and she ended up hatching 4 chicks (all black and gray). She is a wonderful mother providing heat and warmth as well as feeding her little ones. It has been about a week and yesterday I was at...
  5. C

    Cat attack! Chicken survived with broken neck (??)

    Last night at around 1am (it’s currently 9pm so less than 24 hours ago) my chicken was pulled out of the coop by a cat. The cat snuck in through the chicken wire that had come installed from the wood frame, and one of my chickens likes to sleep below the roosts in the open. She was snatched by...
  6. Spiderduck

    Sick chicken

    Hello Just dicovered a hen is sick. She is not moving from her spot, if placed somewhere, she stays there. Eyes closing/opening-no discharge Feathers look okay. Some are taken off on her back thanks to my rooster. No problem. Legs look okay. She stands up and can move/walk so not lethergic...
  7. C

    Intoduction

    Hi all ive just joined backyard chickens ive been reading posts on here for about 5 or 6 weeks now new to hatching chicks though i have about 24 in an incubator all growing lovely (due to hatch next week!) Mostly mille fleur pekins but 3 norfolk greys and have two in a brooder one almost 2 weeks...
  8. Tater_TotQueenie

    Chick with severe crossed beak? Help??

    This is my first time owning chickens, and of course, we had to end up with a chick with severe crossed beak. Her name is Poppi and she is a 3 week old easter egger and she is a little smaller than the rest of the flock. She is also SUPER noisy and adorable! Since we have been feeding her...
  9. SilkieCharlie

    Hatching eggs day 22

    Hello!!:frow I haven't posted in over a year, oops! Last time was about my silkie rooster, who still has no interest in mating and probably never will... :barnie:old So now on to my story, we decided this year to buy fertilized silkie eggs to put under our broodies. We got 6, on day 14 I...
  10. Swastik Choudhari

    How long after internal pip..??

    So my chicken was siiting on 10 eggs...as i live in india 4 eggs turned to be bad beacause of the heat..now she is sitting on 6...one has huge are sell amd a internal pip can also see the beak when candeled..the other 2 has some small internal pip and other dpnt have internal pip yet...so what...
  11. Swastik Choudhari

    Sick chicken.??

    Do i have this chick he is sick i dont know what had happened to him he just keep his head down close to body and does keeps opend and closing his mouth like yawning. Any home remedy for this..?? Like feeding him yogurt or curd or any other thing.Casue i live in village and the vent or medical...
  12. Swastik Choudhari

    Chicken lifespan?

    So i m always wondering about chickens lifespan..i have had chicken live long upto 11years. So what is the average chicken lifespan? And how long did your longest living chicken lived?
  13. Swastik Choudhari

    How many will hatch..??

    So 5 days ago i have my hen 10 eggs..today i candled egg all 10 have veins I know that its all is the game of luck Then too i have question how many will hatch minimum..??
  14. Swastik Choudhari

    Question about calcium..?

    I read most of the threads. Got a lot of information. Giving oysters shells,free ranging ,this-that. I read if excessive its harmful My question is that what amout is harmfull? And what happens if they eat excessive calcium?
  15. Swastik Choudhari

    Possible colour of chicks..??

    I dont know if its right place to post this. So i have one black hen and a buff(i dont know if its a buff but it looks orange) they breed, had fertile eggs,the hen git broody and is now incubating her own eggs. My question is what posibly be the colour of chicks..i know its all a gess game..but...
  16. Swastik Choudhari

    Possible colour of chicks..??

    I dont know if its right place to post this. So i have one black hen and a buff(i dont know if its a buff but it looks orange) they breed, had fertile eggs,the hen git broody and is now incubating her own eggs. My question is what posibly be the colour of chicks..i know its all a gess game..but...
  17. Swastik Choudhari

    Again broody after laying 7 eggs..??

    I dont know if this is the right forum. I have a chicken (mix of game bird × i dont know)she successfully brood all the chicks she had...after her chicks got old enough she left them and again started laying. She just layed 7 eggs and again had gone broody. Now its 3rd day she had just left...
  18. Swastik Choudhari

    Do free ranging chicken get naural calcium?

    So i have 6 chickens, all of them free range and lay eggs regularly. My question is i do free rage them but do not supplement them with calcium or oyster shells but they lay all perfect eggs where do they get calcium from? And can i continue this?
  19. Swastik Choudhari

    What's going on with my chicken?

    My dominate rooster was too rough on our hens..so we served him on dinner table:confused:. Now there are two rooster who are son of the older rooster we had...they both seem to bee equally dominant...but as the old rooster was culled one of my chicken started mounting other chickens..!! Are not...
  20. Swastik Choudhari

    Does small egg hatch small chick..?

    Its my first time hatching eggs. I have a pullet which have just started laying...she lays small eggs than regular egg for her breed(as she ispullet). And i know that those egg are fertil as i also have a rooster n she mates with him. My question is can i give her,her own eggs to hatch they are...
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