I was looking at color varieties of plymouth rocks and came across this picture including red barred rocks.

I have never heard of them and a web search doesn't give me much. Does anyone have them or any pictures they can share?

hey guys, small question. I keep seeing these DIY feeders made from buckets. Doesn't the food in them go moldy if it's outside in this weather?

Thanks for your answers

I have a medium/small flock (11 birds, 2 of which are ducks) And i have 2 bantam chickens. Ones a serama hen and the other is a booted bantam rooster. My bantam rooster crows every morning and throughout the day but i recently noticed that my serama hen crows with him? Her crows are very weak and i only found out because i saw her doing it. Its 100% a hen btw. Ive heard of hens crowing when theres no rooster around but she crows with the rooster. ive also only seen her crow in the coop, otherwise shes quiet

She was acting a bit sad and quiet in the morning but i thought maybe it was because of the cold weather. I found her dead around 3pm but last time i checked on her was around noon. She had no open wounds or vissible trauma. I do have a mescovian drake that is a bit bigger than her. Thanks for your time

We have four hens, and recently one of them has been bullying the subject of this post, Andy. Due to the bullying and attacks, Andy has been (minorly) injured and has had a lot of feathers torn out by said bully and is scared to enter the coop, as this is where the attacks have been happening. Yesterday, we borrowed the largest dog carrier we could get our hands on and set it up to house Andy at night for a few days. So far she seems alright with it despite it not being the greatest shelter for her. My main concern lies in the fact that Andy has lost a lot of feathers and can't huddle with the others and unlike in the coop, there is no lamp to keep her warm. We live in a cold, wet climate and while it's not that cold yet and we've done our best to rain-proof the crate, I'm still worried that she'll be too cold at night, especially since she's already hurt, underweight (didn't mention earlier but she is also afraid to eat in front of the other chickens) and potentially- but hopefully not- sick.

I know that we are supposed to isolate the bully, I know we need to be super careful in case of illness, etc etc. But right now we think it's best that Andy have a safe place to recover, especially since we have limited resources and can't do much else. So right now I'm just looking for ideas on how to make the carrier a little warmer. It's made of plastic with some small openings on the side which we covered with a plastic sheet to keep rain out, and a wire door. So not very insulating. And yes, I know that it's a really small space for a chicken as you can tell by the picture, but it's the best we have right now, and so far we have only had to keep her inside at night. We're hoping that we won't need to keep her isolated like this for very long, but I'm already nervous with how the weather is turning.

Does anyone have any suggestions for some quick/temporary insulation or heat source or something? And if you're curious, look up pictures of barnevelders- that's what she's supposed to look like if she wasn't underweight and missing a ton of feathers.

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TLDR; hen being bullied is being kept in a plastic dog carrier at night but weather is bad, wondering if anyone has any suggestions to keep her warm.

Noticed this on our hen Impy. Idk what the two spots are.

I don’t know what he is, other than a rescue but he is adorable and so arrogant. He is very protective of my girl and is doing a good job keeping her in the yard.

I can't stop laughing at the poor girl. She is molting extra hard this year and looks so raggedy. Treating her to extra worms and scrambled eggs while it grows back in

I think my hens kind of bullied him when he was first introduced, and they plucked his tall tail feathers out, but he did have them at one point lol.

Started doing this after watching Clarksons Farm of all things. The results are mixed and most likely a placebo but I feel the roosters crow less after the radio comes on at 8am.

😂 I was worried when I got them they wouldn’t like me

I have some that started laying a few months ago, but stopped completely when the temperature started getting down to freezing at nights.

I also have some that reached 25 weeks at that same time and they still haven't laid any eggs.

It's been a few weeks now with zero eggs. Is that normal? Are they on strike until I make the winter go away?

I've got them on layer feed plus treats and free-range time. They seem content.

Aside from age, are there any other factors that would cause my birds to be molting for longer than they typically do? I have some younger ones in the flock that are taking longer than I'm used to as well. Food, water, weather?

Hi - I am new to chickens, I got my first flock (6) in the spring. I have been feeding them the purina layer feed but two of my hens keep getting pasty butt. One of them is a runt and she has had it since she was a chick. The other one just recently started getting it, we’ve cleaned them and one cleared up but then it came back. The runt has not been able to get rid of it. We do give them treats but we measure it out and given to them once very couple of days. They also get veggies as treats like pumpkin, broccoli, greens mostly. Could it be the feed that I am giving them? What would you recommend? I keep them in a run that’s big enough to be considered free range but I am also willing to let them out into the yard so they can forage if that will help. Thanks in advance for any advice.

Got him as an egg from a neighbors' family's farm, so no background on him. He looks like a total mutt to me, but I'm curioys if he's got any features from recognizable breeds..

Honestly, I thought I had built an impenetrable fortress for my girls. A lot of hard work and "thinking like a bobcat" went into the creation of their run and the coop. Went down this morning with the scrap bucket with leftover popcorn treat for their breakfast. Carnage. All 10 of my girls were dead. I found the big cat prints in the snow and little cat prints too, a mama and a kit I guess, and I found the hole she went through to get in. I'm feeling guilty and sad and angry this morning and even thought of tracking her down and killing her, but then, I know the bobcat is just being true to her nature and just providing for her family, and i love bobcats so of course i didn't. She won this time. I have to do better.

My hen was cut above the eye and bleeding 1 week ago. We separated her and kept her in a crate inside the house. We took her out to be supervised with the others for an hour a day. She seemed fine and her usual self. Until the past 3 days she has been off her food and water, hardly eating or drinking and standing in feathers ruffled position. Her wound doesn’t seem to be infected but she is sneezing more than normal. She’s now back with her flock 8 days after the cut. Any advice on if she will be ok in insulated eglu go coop with thermal blanket at 0 Celsius? Or should we bring her back inside until she recovers more. Any ideas welcome. Also any tips on getting dried blood scab out of white feathers would be appreciated

I’ve searched all over the internet, but I can’t find them anywhere… does anyone have any recommendations where I might be able to get them?