Hello from another Ohioan! I got my first flock in 2014, and raised them from day-old chicks. I've never had more than six at a time. My current flock consists of Don Williams, a golden buff rooster, and four hens: Auntie Whispers (welsummer), Lorna (golden buff), Beatrice (golden buff) and...
I am sitting in hope and expectation... in the end of April, I should be receiving 3 Buckeyes and 2 Golden Buffs, plus one Meyers Hatchery Mealmaker to be named later... I hope all will be hens... I hope all will be healthy and survive. But we will see. Pictures will be posted when chickens are...
Hello, We have a 2 yr old Golden Buff who is acting quite normal but in the last 4 weeks has laid 2 'soggy' eggs. (They did have a very light coating of calcium but largly 'soft'). She is acting quite normal, but have noticed in the last 2 months her bottom looks 'dirty' like it is dragging...
My golden buff polish rooster(Flaps) is pretty much the man of the yard😋 All my ladies love him and he’s a good one. Very protective over the girls and our coop. Well for about the last month my silkie hen(Suki)went broody so I figured why not try to hatch a few eggs. I placed 2 to start and...
I got a straight run of brown egg layer assortment from Meyer Hatchery, and need help with breed confirmation and guessing at gender. This is Jewel, just shy of six weeks. I'm thinking she's a she and is a Golden Buff (aka ISA brown, red sex link, golden comet...apparently they have a lot of...
I have 2 6ish month old rirs and 2 9.5 week old golden buffs. This is our setup currently. I spread free range feed between to the 2 enclosures twice a day. How long do they need to get acquainted like this? We have had the buffs for almost a week.
My rirs are pretty docile. They are a little...
Okay, I'm not sure if I'm really allowed to be putting an article on this here, as I didn't build the coop from scratch :oops:. But I'm doing it anyway. After deciding we didn't have the time, resources or space to build a chicken coop this past summer, we decided to cheat and go with the Omlet...
I am roughly 8 weeks in to having chickens for the first time and I noticed two of the 5 breeds (I got 2 of each breed) don't appear to be uniform or look too similar. The pictures show my 2 Cream Legbars (bottom rung of ladder in 1st pic) and 2 Golden Buffs pullets are relatively different...
Hello all and am excited to make my first post. I have 10 8 week old hens (2 Rhode Island Reds, 2 Barred Rocks, 2 Golden Buffs, 2 Cream Legbars, and 2 Barnevelders). It is really interesting getting to see their personalities develop. The idea of breeding to blend their traits really fascinates...
So it's been a while! The flock is doing great, we are now getting 4 eggs a day(yet to find out who are laying them). We are up to 13 chickens now. The 9 original(3 RIR, 2 BR, 2 LH, 1 ALP, 1 GLW roo) and now 4 new golden buffs. My mother got confused when she went to pick up the chickens(she had...
hi everyone so yesterday i noticed that one of my chicks looked a little lazy. i brought him inside and noticed that he was having difficulty breathing. his nostrils were blocked by some kind of mucus and he was gasping for air. does anyone know what this is and can they suggest a natural method...