new chick momma

Hi everyone I am in my first year of raising chickens and need some help. I started off in March with with 13 day olds from TSC, ended up processing 2 of the three roosters so they’re in my freezer. The 9 hens and one rooster left have been great. Silly me wanted to add some different color...

07.31.23 1st step to chicken math is acceptance. Spent nineteen hours tearing this bad boy down in some pour ladies backyard. She brought us coffee and blueberries and smoothies. I severely underestimated what it took to disassemble a playhouse. Which is having me reconsider how this thing is...

Hi Everyone, My name is Krystal and I have 2 toddlers 1 and 3. I have previously had chickens but rehomed them when I was pregnant with my 3 year old. But she really wanted Chickens so she saved her Christmas money/birthday money and today we got week old chicks 🥰😍 stay tuned for names xo

What did you SWEAR by to get rid of flies? In the coop AND run. First time chicken mama and yo. Didn't expect to be in war with so many flies. 😂 help please. I put those liquid fly trap bags, DE and vanilla scent trees up. So far the vanilla scent trees seem to be effective and I literally...

the first picture is a normal healthy baby chick but the second picture, i don’t know what I’m dealing with like the legs don’t look spraddle or is it so i gotta ask, what i’m dealing with and how to treat it also the baby chick is about a day old.

Hi, thank you for accepting me into y'all's flock. I am 39, have a wonderful hubby and 2 kiddos. We recently had a "neighborhood" been today and hatch 🐣 2 chicks. She stayed with them till about 5-6 weeks and then left with a new rooster 🐓 (there was like 5 different rooster roaming). I had been...

Hi this is the same chick about my other question. The chick is maybe 6 days old now and something new has occurred. Since this chick was a surprise we warm up 3 bags of water and put towels on top so the bags stay warm throughout the night. But today I went to a massage and a small errand for...

Hi everyone! I could really use some help identifying my baby girls!!! The grey ones looked different as baby chicks but seem to look more and more alike each day. They have amazing personalities! All very unique and very friendly and curious! Thanks again for the help!!!

I have 2 chick from someone who has no info on them. One has scissor beak and what I think could be wry neck. She is about 1/2 the size of the one she care with. And seems to need ‘mom’ more. I put her in my bag so she can feel as though she is being sat on by mom. The other chick is with...

hello friends and chicken family. Today I went to purchase a coop for my 2 week old chicks and decided to get the Snap & lock large chicken coop. It was on display for 300$ at my local tractor supply BUT its normally 800$ purchase online. I was a little confused because I have seen the same coop...

I hope this is the right place for this. I was a member over eight years ago I think. In the meantime I will soon become a chicken momma again. Super excited waiting for my daughter in laws chicken eggs to hatch in kindergarten classroom. Hopefully this week. Wish me luck.

(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? Yes. I first got chickens in April of this year. My community has a really nice sustainable living organization called 500 Gardens and 500 chickens. Every spring the 500 chickens group does an intro class to raising chicks, gives...

Hello! For about a year I thought about raising chickens and this Feb I decided to do it! I started as many do, with 6 chicks from Tractor Supply and a pre made coop. Now I am building my own, have a Rooster and 9 ladies and 9 eggs in the bator with more on the way! Gotta love that chicken math...

Hi! I am new to the chicken community. Just started being a chicken mom in the last 3 weeks. My daughter’s science class hatched eggs and we volunteered to take 3 chicks home. Built a coop and fenced it up in our back yard! We live our new animal addition, even the new puppy loves them. We...

i live nearly smack in the center of the CLE and I love it, but I never thought that I would be able to have my own chicks while I lived in the city. Then I bought a house in a Latino community and there were city chickens all over the place. Beautiful homes and yards, lots of laughing kids and...

I"m Hannan, and a couple weeks ago, my family bought six new chicks, three black sex links (mine to care for) and three yellow chicks that I forgot which species they are, but my sister, who's in charge of those, probably remembers. They're all hens, because we don't have a large enough estate...

Hello to all chicken mamas, papas, and ma-pas! I had been doing tons and tons of research about what it is like to have chickens. And after careful consideration, planning, building of a coop, and a spontaneous trip to the local feed store almost three weeks ago, (breath) I NOW HAVE 12...

I'm hatching my first batch of eggs. I put 13 in the incubator (2 not fertilized...removing today) and I'm using Little Giant still air incubator 9300. I am super insecure that I'm doing this right. The instructions said to set temp at 103.5, but that seemed super high and nothing I read out...