Posts by Treehill Farm

14 hours later, we have 5 buttons and a pip! We started with 11 eggs so there may be more still to come!

I have a muscovy doing the same thing. Hatch day was yestreday and so far, nothing. Someone on here who has been raising ducks for like 20 years said that ducks don't really care about your calendar, they hatch in their own time. ...

This is our first hatch ever. We built an incubator for a science project and it works!

Old hat to some on here but my three little boys and I are sitting glued to the incubator window watching button quail pop like popcorn!! **** they're cute!   That is all.... I had to tell someone!

I bought two dozen for the incubator. About a week before they showed up one of my hens started brooding. When the box arrived, I gave her 6. If a chicken could smile!!

I have kept chickens for eggs for almost 30 years. I've never had a hen prolapse before. Based on what I've read, i've been extremely lucky.

I treated her last night and tucked her in. This morning when I went out, she had died. It was really bad, much worse than the pictures I looked at. Sometimes nature wins.....

I put 6 of them under a broody hen that has been trying to steal eggs for the last week. She was in heaven! The rest are at a friends house. She has a commercial incubator and tons of experience hatching which I don't. I really want to...

I looked up prolapse, the pictures and the treatments. The pics show very small prolapses. This hen has the size of a softball. She's in the sick pen, in the barn by herself. She doesn't seem to be in pain although she hasn't moved...

I went out to feed and put the animals up for the evening. One of my Buff Rock hens was in a nesting box. Two other hens were pecking at her rear under her tail. I chased them off and realized the hen was bleeding. I lifted her up...