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Here's what you need to know if you're thinking about getting backyard chickens for eggs or meat. #backyardchickens

https://www.anoffgridlife.com/chicken-care-for-beginners/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Homesteading @homesteading-AnOffGridLife

#FotoVorschlag: Federleicht // Light as a feather

Meine #Hühner werden aktuell um viele #Federn erleichtert, sie #mausern gerade, was das Zeug hält, und die beiden alten #Hennen sehen ganz gerupft aus (wächst aber jetzt alles schön nach, wie man sieht). Dazu Wind und Regen und seit heute ist auch noch Stallpflicht angesagt wegen der Vogelgrippe. Die Hühnis haben es gerade echt nicht (feder)leicht.
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My #chickens are a lot lighter now, as they're losing so many #feathers. They're in the middle of #moulting and especially the two older #hens look a bit scruffy (their feathers are growing back nicely though, as you can see). There's also rain and wind and as of today, they have to stay cooped up due to avian flu. Apologies for the pity party, I just wanted to ... shed some light on the daily struggles of our feathery friends. 😋

#Lachshühner #Faverolles #hen #Huhn #chicken #Lachshuhn #Mauser #molting #moult #molt #bird #birds #birdPhotography #birdsOfMastodon #ChickensOfMastodon #BackyardChickens #ChickensOfPixelFed #Birdsday #Birbsday

Interior of a well-used chicken coop, featuring two wooden beams used for perching. The floor is covered in litter and a thick layer of feathers, indicating that the chickens are currently moulting.

A light-brown and white hen named Henna, appearing slightly scruffy due to moulting, stands in an outdoor chicken enclosure. There's a new patch of feathers growing on the wing that's facing the camera. The coop floor is covered with wood shavings, and the hen is positioned near a dark plate filled with fruit and vegetable scraps, including carrot peels and apple and pear cores. The enclosure is surrounded by wire mesh, with a grassy area visible in the background.

Rear view of a white and light-brown hen in an outdoor chicken enclosure, showcasing new feather growth on its back and tail area after moulting. Henna, that's the name of the hen, stands on wood shavings, with a plastic ring visible on one feathered leg. The enclosure is surrounded by wire mesh fencing, and another hen is partially visible in the background

A light-coloured hen named Stella with a prominent red comb stands in an outdoor chicken enclosure. There are new feathers growing around the beak. The hen has a full, rounded body with soft, pale feathers, and its feathered legs show some blue discolouration due to a spray I use to mask pecking injuries. The enclosure floor is covered with wood shavings, and other hens are partially visible in the background. The area is surrounded by wire mesh fencing, with a grassy field visible beyond.

One morning 2 or 3 chicks made their way through the wire mesh and out of the cage and were out on their own. Lucky no cats were about. The hen was all anxious and pacing inside, probably disturbing her 2 peer hens in there brooding eggs. After a busy day it's easy to forget about adjusting the mesh overlaps so the chicks can't fit through the holes. You're just glad you remembered to close up the cages at all.. Eventually some sort of more sage-like system will have to come about, like a dog that can be trusted not to eat the chicks, or a nested fencing situation.

Now that I think of it, the egg-farmer that put his dog in the chicken cages at night probably only did it for big cages with 80 adult birds. I'll have to ask him. If Maron gets knocked up I'll have to be intensive about having the puppies hanging out with chicks a lot.. Maybe I can still train Maron to live with chicks??

#BackyardChickens #SilkyHen #JidoriChick #SilkyChick #烏骨鶏雌鶏 #烏骨鶏雛 #宮崎地鶏雛

It's getting chilly around here, so the chicken run will be serving a dual purpose as a greenhouse. I planted two valencia orange trees to make use of the chicken fertilizer. #backyardchickens 🌱 #permaculture #silvopasture #agroforestry #compost #fruit #fruittrees #homegrown #eggs #forest #trees

Greenhouse/chicken run combo from the back side

Valencia orange trees planted in the dirt behind and protected with a chicken wire fence

We had a chicken disappear on us for a few weeks. We found her again yesterday morning with a few new additions.

7 chicks hatched in the wild.

#BackyardChickens #PuertoRico #chicks

This morning 🌄 I thought 4 of these chicks were eaten. They weren't in their box this morning.. I wonder where they slept.last night?
#SilkyChicks #BackyardChickens #烏骨鶏 #烏骨鶏雛 #烏骨鶏中雛

Last Day Chicks.. well one of the 10 is still around.
I had to adjust things for the newly broody hen and the hen with the Jidori Rooster chick so I rushed 5 of the 6-group over to a friends' place. The 6 couldn't jam into the small pace with the JidoriChick's hen was so one was up high in the middle of the yard on a plastic planter, one was at the entrance in the rain and one was jammed between the brooding box and a big garden rock. The garden rock bird was suprisingly active in the dark rain and jumped away, ended up on the other side of the yard in an apple box I could close up with dollar (100 yen shop) wire mesh stuff. He's luck because the four chicks in the box next to him disappeared. I think a weasel wormed in from the back between some wired mesh and the box.. Maybe if I had left the baby rooster uncaged the weasel would have been content with just him and I'd sill have 4 chicks to give away on Sunday? Probably not.. The rooster chick would be gone, I still wouldn't have notices the weasel entrance to the 4 chicks and just would have lost more birds.. Glad I didn't leave the other 5 chicks out on their own.. Ah well.. It's sad but every once in a while we have to give back to the local ecology I guess. It must have been a wild weasel and not a feral cat, so that's good, I guess. But why can't they just take one, why does it have to be all 4 or all 15!?!?
#SilkyChickens #BackyardChickens #烏骨鶏

Chicken experts, what does it mean when an Australorp makes a kind of honking sneeze noise? It seriously sounds like a short parp from a party toy, but she's done it a few times while I've heard. She seems entirely happy otherwise, albeit somewhat mulberry-stained so I'm not sure of her comb colour.

Should I be concerned?

#BackyardChickens #Chickens

Goodnight birdies!!
#SilkyChicks #SilkyChickens #BackyardChickens #烏骨鶏 #烏骨鶏雛

Here is an excellent 5-minute video about why you should raise your own chickens, only buy 100% organic pasture-raised, or not eat them at all.

https://youtu.be/bo8b_c8M22g

#SustainableFarming #OrganicLiving #PastureRaised #EthicalEating #AnimalWelfare #FarmToTable #HealthyLiving #SustainableFood #BackyardChickens #EcoConscious #OneCommunityGlobal #FoodEthics

Mooooooooooolts
#backyardchickens #alicethechicken

A close-up, eye-level photograph showcases a young chicken standing on a dark, ornate metal chair. The chicken is primarily cream-colored and fluffy, with some light brown feathers mixed throughout the plumage. The chicken’s legs are thin and pale green, and its feet have long, dark claws. The background is blurred but reveals green foliage and some branches, suggesting an outdoor setting, with a hint of a darker brown chicken to the left edge of the frame. The lighting is bright and appears to be natural sunlight, casting a slight shadow under the chair.

This morning's egg haul. #BackyardChickens

Morning sun shines on five chicken eggs held by a white person's hand. The eggs are varying shades of brown and one blueish white. They also vary in size and have not yet been washed.

One result of having #backyardChickens is - you can’t ever again order eggs when you go out for breakfast because once you get used to fresh eggs from well fed chickens, nothing else will do.

I thought this hen was a goner last night for sure (she is 10, which is as old as old chickens get) but she hopped down from her roost this morning and faceplanted in her corn. congrats on seizing another day, Rocket.
#chicken #backyardchickens

the most ancient gold-laced wyandotte you've ever seen, going grey at the edges of her comb and wattles. she's also molting which doesn't decrease her overall level of decrepitude

#chickens #backyardchickens #ducks Turns out raw beans of any kind, including green beans, are deadly poison for chickens and ducks. Soak for five hours in cold water. Rinse well. BOIL for at least half an hour. Cool. Chop.

Silkie Feet
#SilkyChickens #SilkieFeet #SilkyFeet #BackyardChickens

Cleaned, dusted and organized the henhouse/garden shed, reclaiming the garden shed part. I hung plastic sheeting to reduce the effects of the hens' enthusiastic dirt transport habits. (They like to bathe in dust, then they go somewhere else - like the henhouse - and shake it off. Fun!)

#gardening
#backyardchickens

A shed, painted green, with a white window and an open door. There is a flowerbox below the window, in which can be seen rosemary and oregano. A wire boxlike structure, painted gray, extends from the left side of the shed: an elevated hen run.

The chickens are really enjoying spring. The lawn has gone to seed so I let them have at it a couple of times a week.

I'm going to mow the lawn one day. But not today.

#BackyardChickens #Chickens #NoMow

Photo of two black chickens eating an overgrown lawn. Lawn has many non-grass plants in it, with obvious flowers and seeds

#FotoVorschlag: Zahlen: fünf // Numbers: five

Die meisten Hühnerrassen haben vier Zehen pro Fuß, aber meine #Lachshühner haben fünf Zehen. Hier sieht man Cleos fünf Zehen deutlich, als sie erschrocken und schreiend in die Luft gesprungen ist, weil Stella sie mal wieder gepickt hat.
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Most chicken breeds have four toes per foot, but my #Faverolles have five. Here, you can see Cleo’s five toes as she jumps up with a start and shrieks after Stella pecked at her.

#hens #chickens #hen #Huhn #Hühner #chicken #Lachshuhn #bird #birds #birdPhotography #birdsOfMastodon #ChickensOfMastodon #BackyardChickens #ChickensOfPixelFed

#backyardchickens

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