Posts by StarFlower99654

Name: Sarge Age: 1 yr Breed: Welsummer How'd you wound up with this chicken: I found him on craigslist and sure happy I did!

Thank goodness you caught the bandit before he made off with all the eggs!! Have you tried to make a cheapy homemade bator? Thats what we did and I am amazed at how well it works.

So today we clipped wings and allowed our turkeys out in the yard with our chickens. They all know each other due to the turkeys pen is also the enclosed run area for the chickens thru the winter/bad weather. As soon as they got to...

Being a new mom of 20 chicks, I am glad to have this information explained; Thank you HEChicken!! My babies are about 4 weeks now and I can pick out a few that seem to stand tall and I suspect they are the roos. BTW,...

I want to know how this chick turned out also. I had a chick with a bent neck that stayed just like it was when it hatched and I too gave the poly vit and vit E. It help her somewhat to have better range of motion, but the head still...

Happy to have found this thread. I have a baby turkey that has curled feet. He is a few days old now and walks around fine, but I have to fix his feet. His brother didnt make it due to having that had straddle legs and was very weak....

My first hatch of incubated eggs from my own flock. Born May 7-9th.

Thanks for sharing this. Last year we got a barred rock rooster chick for our flock and as he aged, we noticed he had a gimp leg. Since he was our only rooster, I quickly got another one (welsummer this time) and found a home for...

Last year when we first got our chicks, I was worried about them running off when free ranging, so I formulated a plan. We built a chicken tractor for them and used it until the coop was finished, just in time as they were quickly...