backyardchickens

We got a Tetra hen from a friend who can’t keep it anymore yesterday. Fortunately we were looking to get a couple of chickens anyways, so we had purchased a used coop some weeks ago....

They are going out to the run in the next week or two, I am building a new run for our older chickens this week so we can keep them separated for now.

We would have had 24 with these guys but we lost a hen last week to a predator so 23 it is (for now). The plan is basically to add 6 (NY minimum for buying chicks) every year and expand the coop as needed.

We just got a batch of ten baby chicks! Two days old and they are already having a blast climbing and jumping off a little rock and sticks. This batch are all females, and are a random variety of “exotic” chickens. When their real feathers grow in it’ll be fun to figure out what breeds we got!...

I have 5 hens and 1 hen is bullying all of the other chickens. What are some ways I can prevent this?

Last year my wife and I got 36 American Bresse eggs and hatched them. Out of the ones that hatched we had 2 that have no tail. In fact, when we butchered them their hind end looked like, well, a butt....

My wife had to run off to the other end of the country very suddenly yesterday. She had planned to process two boxes of late season tomatoes. It fell to me to get it done. I diced them up and put them in the freezer so that she can make sauce when she gets back....

Yeah. Exactly.

French fries and homemade roasted turkey gravy topped with our own roasted Bronze Orlopp turkey, homemade bread dressing, and fried eggs from our backyard chickens....

We had a bit of rain these few days. 110ish mm over the last 14 days, 25 of which decided to check in on us yesterday. So our run got flooded....

Just casually came across this. We are getting chickens next week. Never had them before. So anything I should know going in ?

And I’m a noob with chickens....

cutepost just 4 fun :)

We ordered broilers from a different hatchery this year. I don’t think we got what we expected to get.

He and the six heaviest girls will be sticking around to keep us in meat chickens. I’ve really enjoyed raising these guys.

At list a few chickens to raccoons early in the season. They were taken outside. When you improve security raccoons can get more aggressive so I beefed up the summer door on the house.

He was hatched on our farm and went out to a friend whose family wanted a few laying hens. They named him Chloe. When he turned out to be a cockerel he came back and we told her kids that he would live on our farm as a roster, not a meat birds. He turned into a pretty bird.

Watermelon is their fruit of preference 😄

These 8 nesting boxes, in two banks of 4, are most than 10 years old. They have worked very well. We have somewhere between 40 and 50 hens in the laying flock right now....

cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/4413694...