chicks

Is it a good idea to combine my 5 and 9 week old chicks?

Cream Legbar Chicks female

Got home from Tractor Supply and the power is out for thunderstorm, chicks are warming by the oil lamp

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In the coop to the left of the photo, I have eight week old babies along with mama. When they start laying, I plan on integrating them with my existing flock. My question is at what point do I remove mama from the babies because mama is from my in-laws flock as she was broody and hatched our 12...

I have quite a few chicks that act like this. they walk around normal, and then they will lay down and look exhausted. Some of them stand with your eyes closed, and their heads dropped forward. They have been acting like this for about two weeks. I thought they were recovering from Coryza. My...

Good morning! I am a chicken newbie of one month. My mother raised ducks but I never liked them because they were mean to me as a toddler. We have three single-comb, brown leg, three Columbian Wyandotte, and two Barred Rock. The Wyandottes are the calmest. The three brown leg remind me of the...

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Just in case this could be illness-related I’m posting this here! Likely isn’t anything bad but a chicken parent is allowed to worry. I have a young Silkie, about 6-7 weeks old. Not sure of their sex yet, but at this point it’s leaning to cockerel unfortunately. Especially when looking at their...

I have 4 chicks that are 2w 2d old from what I believe to be a cream legbar roo and for sure buff orpington hen. I do know there's no real way to tell at this point but I enjoy guessing and since these are my first chicks ever, thought I'd enlist some more experienced guessers to play along! My...

Hi! This chick appears to be growing up differently than the other chicks that I assumed were the same breed when I purchased 10 from Tractor Supply. I’m not sure what’s going on. It could just be molting, but it’s around 3 weeks old and the others have barely gotten all their feathers and still...

Hi! This chick appears to be growing up differently than the other chicks that I assumed were the same breed when I purchased 10 from Tractor Supply. I’m not sure what’s going on. It could just be molting, but it’s around 3 weeks old and the others have barely gotten all their feathers and...

I waited until the sun set and went outside and tried to slip my two 1-day old chicks under my broody and she started pecking at them and we had to take the chicks out. Did we not wait long enough until the broody was fully asleep? It's hard because they can hear us approach and wake up. Could I...

Hello Everyone! I am getting two new easter egger chicks that will be adopted by my speckled sussex broody hen. I am trying to get set up before they get here so that I don't have to interrupt them and mom for the first few hours. Does anyone have any suggestions for where I should put their...

Right now, I have 3 Speckled Sussex and 1 Buff Orpington and one of the Sussex is broody so we are getting her two chicks to raise. We have the choice between Road Island Reds or Easter Eggers but are unsure which to get? Do we get 2 RIRs, 2 Easter Eggers, or 1 of each? We are looking for...

Can anyone tell me what breed of bantams these are by chance? Also if the yellow one looks like a frizzle or if it just has some messed up wings 😂 All the brown with silver are the same chicks and all the pics of the yellow one are the same chick! Thanks in advance!

I have two chicken houses. I found that buying from 2 different hatches sometimes separates the pack. I have a lovely rooster. He is in with his two older babes and one is brooding her first clutch. The other female is the rooster's companion for now. I have another pen with six 1 yr old hens...

Hello from Ontario, Canada! We are a suburban family raising 2 Azure Blue chicks. They are 3 weeks old. We have received them 2 weeks ago from our son’s school - they were covering “Green Technologies” and the teacher decided that homesteading is the best thing to teach the kids :), the chicks...

6-ish week old chicks recently got a run, about a week and a half ago? They only just started going outside this week though! They are absolutely obsessed with the outside world, to the point where I never see them going inside. Not even as it gets dark out. I tried getting them in at 9pm...

I know it’s probably still too early to tell what they are but was wondering if anyone on here would be able to. If not I will post weekly pics of them as they grow to figure out coloring. Thanks. If it helps the last 5 pics are the parents. White one is the dad.