hi!
my name is ava!
i’m in cali and have a small backyard flock of 3 adult chickens and 3 chicks. there’s one rooster, and two hens.
i love chickens so much! i had my first flock when i was only 9 years old.
i also have 2 kitties (duchess and duke), 3 fish (fish, chips, and fry), and one...
we have a silkie and a americana that are slightly older than the rest of our chicks, and they hate being held, especially picked up. how do we win them over? they freak out so much when you try to pick them up. the rest of our chicks are also like that, but a lot less scared. how should we win...
Looking for quality Croad Langshans in northern CA and Nevada. We fell in love with Croad Langshans, and we are replacing much of our flock with Langshans. We have crummy luck when it comes to the pullet/cockerel ratio. We got four chicks, lost one, and the surviving three were all boys. We...
Hi y’all! I’ve searched the boards trying to find an answer to my question and couldn’t.
My chickens have free range of 40 acres, so I need a rooster. I have a 23 week barred rock rooster and he recently started to attack me! First time... I hate to admit it... I kicked him pretty good. Then...
I have about 55 teens (16 weeks old) mostly girls -- we came home two weeks ago to one dead under the coop. No sign of injury, no lethargy. Nothing. Just dead --
Three or four days later, another one was dead beside the steps (looked like it had fallen off the steps). Again, no sign of...
None of my other chicks have ever grown weird shoulder feathers like this! Is it normal? Is it just a part of the awkward stage? Lol she’s a 5 week old ‘ameraucana’ from the feed store so basically she’s an Easter Egger right?!
These feathers right here