Recent content by john talks to chickens

i just lost 3 chicks yester day. half leghorn & silkie. they were so cute. i dont know what happened 2, the ones that had the brown leghorn colors with the silkie five toes. i found under the hen. the golden silkie had normal feet, she was a fighter and made it most of the day, she was to weak...

any silkie hens around oroville

my silkie rooster is almost blind from pox sores on his face, what can i do, i have iodine 10% and bio-active silver hydrosol. i lost his mate and dont want to lose him.

is neosporin safe on a chickens face, swollen ear?

the baby birds are 18 days old, still tiny. my leghorn hen is a good momma to them.

ok heres whats new. today my leghorn hen hatched 2 serama & seabright cross chicks, they are cute and tiny. momma hen is really big but she loves those little buggers.

my birds are now the proud parents to 2 silkies that they hatched.

there eggs didnot make it. they did hatch 2 silkie eggs on 6/1 & 6/2

my rooster sat on eggs for a month and showed my seabright how to sit and not eat the eggs. after about 30 days i checked there eggs and they were bad so i replaced the 3 eggs with 2 silkie eggs and a few days later they hatched. my rooster is taking care of 1 chick and lucy is taking care of...

my serama & seabright did not hatch there own eggs, they tryed. i did put 2 silkie eggs under them and they both hatched. both birds are being good parents.

i have 2 hens that have been sharing the nest duty and on 5/29 they hatched 5 chicks. they have been doing great with the chicks and sleeping side by side. but today they were really going at it fighting, i took 1 out of the coop and after a while i tryed to let the hen in but no this time they...

its 5/20 serama & seabright, are still sitting on the 3 eggs. i really hope something good happens, they have put in lots of work.