Recent content by Sarahal88

Here is the pic that shows the injured chicks.

So, All 5 eggs were viable but one couldn't complete the hatching process. Of the remaining 4 chicks, 2 have some kind of injury on their heads - each was hatched under a different hen. POssibly a peck injury, but by the time I saw them, both mamma hens were lovingly raising their two chicks, so...

Thanks.....finally the original broody came back to the nest. I decided to split the difference and giver her back a couple of eggs. Now I can test them both out and see how they do. Guess I'll cross my fingers that all's well in the morning, as I'm sure at least two will finish hatching over night.

I came home from work today to discover that my eggs, which were being incubated in the coop, are hatching! It's only partway through day 19, so that caught me off guard. The broody who was incubating the eggs was off the eggs when i checked on the flock around 5:45pm. I gave her at least 45...

Yes they do. My ewes still have their lambs with them, so they're still in milk ;). Otherwise that would definitely be an exercise in futility.

Could it be some kind of mix? Buff Orpington X Welsummer? Honestly, no idea. There are many types of chickens.

:lol: Yes that is true. But in all seriousness, I am trying to milk one of my sheep but she's not a dairy sheep and her teats are so tiny. Haven't been very successful so far.

I haven't raised peafowl but I have done chickens and turkeys so I'll take a stab based on my own experience. Maybe some peafowl owners can chime in. 1. Since I know hens sometimes raise ducks, I would guess that it is possible to get them to raise a peachick, but only a hen who has been...

Well, I do want to get a couple of dairy goats eventually. Unless I can figure out how to milk my sheep. That'd be nice since they are so much easier to contain.

Not sure whether this goes in the livestock section or the chickens section, but I'll try here. I have a flock of a total of about 19 chickens. Right now they are split into two coops with runs, but I want to move them all into my sheep pasture. However, it dawned on me that I need to be able...

Could she feeling just slightly broody enough to stop laying and hang out in the box, but not enough to really insist? And she is not molting I assume? Were you doing any lighting in the coops that stopped or decreased suddenly? Could throw the internal clock off. Once my chickens stopped...

You could bury hardware cloth under the door just like the rest of the run. It can attached to a wooden threshold under the door, just a partly buried board or 4x4 or 2x4. If you level that and make your doorway nice and square you should be able to keep things from squeezing though. Not sure...

I wouldn't count on them remembering which nest is which. I'd try to separate them if you can. I've definitely seen chickens keep getting confused and if one doesn't want to cooperate with the musical nests game it will lower your hatch rates. I have no idea about that egg. I haven't seen one...

Doing what? What makes her stupid? I think natural selection would take care all but the wiliest domestic chickens without human help looking after them.

Are they in with the rest of your flock or separate? I had this problem with some 5 week old chicks. They were basically feathered so heat wasn't a problem, but mom stopped protecting them and in fact was joining in with the others bullying them. They got moved into a separate pen so they can...