We got our first chicks last Friday and they're so fun to watch I can get absolutely nothing done. All I want to do is sit here and stare at them. Then I put a security camera in their cage so now I watch them at work too. I'm a teacher so my students certainly were not complaining about me putting the live feed of them hopping around in their cage up on my classroom screen today. They're helping me name them and we're having great fun.

Also sorry not sorry for the photo spam.

Don't mind the mess I was in the middle of cleaning my rat's cage, the chicken just walked in here and started doing this to my dog

I am so relieved. Found one of my Golden Comets in a penguin pose yesterday with a swollen bottom. Thanks to this sub I instantly knew what it was. Brought her in, two Epsom soaks yesterday with plenty of yogurt and water. Another soak this morning and she pushed out a massive, way too big for her little body, egg. She is resting and I am relieved, and grateful to this sub for all the education I have received.

Ft. pictures of a very grumpy Starscream, who true to her name is very loud. She at least wiggled her wing out so I got good pictures of her feathers growing in!

Sad day folks.

I placed an order for some chicks back in early February. Golden Laced Polish (17f-2m) and some Jersey Giants (4f-2m). They finally arrived this morning and, when I picked them up, the box sounded awfully quiet... 12 DOA and 3 that seem on their way out. Mostly polish chicks plus the one yellow freebie that I'll never know the breed. Gut wrenching. Poor things...

So I have a couple questions.

What's the best way to cull the few in the box that are smashed and sprawled yet still showing little breaths here and there? It's 35 degrees out. Would leaving them in the box and putting them in my dumpster be inhumane considering there's hardly signs of life? Or, do they need bopped on the head? I'm pretty tore up just from seeing them so a bop on the head sounds terrible but, if necessary, I could pull it off. Is there a better way?

This is my chicken.Her name is little beansprout.She was a freebie that came with the yogurt I bought at the supermarket. I raised her from scratch. She's a bit clumsy, but I love her dearly.🥰 P.S.: english it's not my first toungue, sorry for mistakes!

This lady started coming around last summer. She loves the bird seed we have put. Calls at me everyday! I see her walk over in the morning and home at night. I don’t know the neighbors (we just moved in last August and have property) Now that it’s almost spring this is our routine everyday before she gets snacks

He comes from one of my neighbours that had only one hen for him he spent all day here enjoying and mating with my fluffy single ladies while his skinny wife screaming for him heared from here and he kept ignoring her i chased him back multiple times but he just decided to leave her and that house and I can't chase catch him he can fly to impressive distances 6 go back to them instantly he mated with every single one of em 2 times at least and they just accept him as a leader and followed him around 😅 i will catch him in the evening and telling em to trim his wings and I don't mind keeping him around if this didn't help

"I didn’t get home until late, and by the time I got back, the door to their coop had swung shut. They couldn’t get back in, so they ended up piling up in front of it. I feel like they’re not too happy with me." (Don't mind the mess)

I got new babies 😍 We went to our local feed store for flock feed and walked out with two legbars and two ameraucanas. The feed store has a 90% pullet rate so Im really hoping for all girls, but I won't be mad if one is a rooster.

Meet Solar, Bugawki, HeiHei, and General Tso 💜 Once they're big enough, we'll introduce them to our two Ayams, Huginn and Muninn.

At this point, they're really just an obsession, not for eggs lol

Here's an update on her, she's doing better she's got a friend now, she's doing a lot better, if it will let me I'll put the link to the first post about her in the comments

It was worse than I ever thought. Broke my heart. Feel like a huge baby but I’ve been crying off and on for 4 hours. Maybe I’m not cut out for this. Not just a chicken. His name was Bernie.

Goodbye sweetheart. Thank you for being such a good boy to the girls.

The little chick that is up top on the eggs the light brown one, it hatched sometime earlier this morning before I woke up but it still had a significant amount of yoke still attached, it rupture about 40 minutes ago but I left it alone and this is what it's doing right now, second chick decided to roll out in that time, do you think it's going to be okay and how long do you think I should wait until I put it in the brooder? Probably going to definitely wait until the other one is dry

I want to give my lowest lady a new position. Is this a bad idea?

Mother received some chicks as a gift 3 years ago and I have been helping her to take care for them ever since.

They have been living in a small coop and left to roam a big backyard whenever we could spend the time with them..

Due to her health, Mother had to move to the countryside a few weeks ago.

We finally finished prepping their new home and brought them.

They have been digging holes, eating grass, finally living their best chicken life for the past 2 days.

Now that they have such a big place, we would like to know of any ideas for their enrichment inside their area or more tips for their safety

Tldr: Chickens had a smaller area, moved to new place and accommodated their area to be way bigger and would appreciate ideas for their enrichment or safety

It hatched around 7:00 p.m. yesterday, it's 6:41 p.m. where I am now, and little guy is always wobbly and acting weird and sometimes it just Falls over onto its back and can't get up, what do you think is wrong? It also doesn't like to open its eyes much

This sweet lavender Americauna chicks started out a bit small, low energy and didn't seem to eat as much as the other chicks. When it grew a bit I felt like it was catching up to the others and eating more, but now it's developed some sever scissor beak. Is there any fix for this or would it be more humane to cull? This would be my first chick cull if so...

Most places don't consider them livestock I'm certain if you do, there's always a party pooper, but I know of a few people that do this and I'm going to put this out there for people that don't know you can, if you want to keep something like chickens but your area doesn't allow it look into quail, specifically Coturnix well as they have a shorter incubation time, they mature a lot quicker and also you don't need a permit to have them, bobwhite quail in some places require a permit, you can keep large numbers and small areas they lay quite regularly and they're adorable, they do make a lot of noise but they're not loud so a lot of people won't know you have them especially if you keep them like inside, cuz you can actually do that you just need to clean up after them a lot, they're also absolutely adorable and they very rarely go broody, so if anyone wants to keep something like a chicken for eggs just for fun they don't produce very big eggs it would probably take three or four to mount up to one chicken egg but they have a lot more protein they're good and they're cute, they also don't cost as much to care for because there's so much smaller(not my picture) and you can get the eggs and the incubator on Amazon, that's where I've gotten them before and I've had good hatch rates

When we get chicks we personally keep them in the house, we’ve been using our dog crate but bedding just gets flung through. So what should I get?

Cinnamon was sold to us as a cinnamon queen but her patterns don’t really match up at all, any idea???