Multiple help articles for Chickens
This is a condensed form of our full baby chick care guide, which you can find here. You can place your brooder almost anywhere: chicks' small size makes them easy to handle! But keep in mind that chicks grow quickly, and that raising chicks is a mes
Congratulations! You've received your order of baby chicks or waterfowl from My Pet Chicken and now you want to know which breed is which. No problem!. Some babies may have leg bands. You can compare the leg band color to our chart to help identify t
Depending on which chicken breed and color you order at My Pet Chicken, some will be guaranteed to be all Blue, Black, or Splash. At the same time, others will be hatched and sold as mixed flock colors including blue, black, and splash. When a blue r
There is little more beautiful than a mother hen sheltering chicks beneath her wings.
We don't recommend you offer supplemental heat to your coop unless your temps regularly drop well below freezing... Seriously!. Chickens adapt to the cold weather over time. Their body metabolism actually changes along with the seasons. Along with th
If your hens have a good, "complete" layer feed, they may not ever need oyster shells or any supplemental calcium. However, it never hurts--and it can really help avoid potential pitfalls in a number of ways. Oyster shell is inexpensive and lasts a l
Pecking, also called picking, is almost always the result of high stress levels. When that happens, the birds will sometimes pluck each others' feathers out, and can really hurt one another. Those lowest in the pecking order may have bare spots on th