Dern It! I always got something else going on the same dates that any fun chicken stuff is going on within reasonable distance for me to get too! Please keep posting when something ios going on, I don't check in here everyday but would love to swap, trade or purcahse colorfull chickens from time...
My Frizzle hen layed the majority of the nest, My Blue Cochin hen snuck over the fence into this coop and left 3 eggs.
The Blue Cochin hen belongs to my Big EE Roos flock ( He is pretty protective of his girls), so 3 of the 13 that hatched were Cochin/EE
The Frizzle Momma hen laid the rest of...
Here are my Winter featherd babies.
My young Frizzles first Set was over 18 eggs, some where deposited in the nest by another hen, but 13 hatched and I am sure that ten were from the Frizzle hen. Two possible roos over the frizzle hen and the shared eggs were by my EE Roo and blue...
I have 8 hens and 3 roos that free range together. I know that the Amercauna Roo is older and dominant and does most of the breeding. However ever once in awhile one of the two Spitzhauben roos, will get his oppertunity and cover a hen.
All my girls are laying regular, and I decided to try some...
I am sure some more qualified will answer you. Just wanted to add my first experience, mine hatched yesterday and today, and two more just now pecking through, in a friends incubator. For somereason his turkey, Quail and peacocks did not hatch this go around, and mine were at day 24, we were...
My concern is that when the Cochin hatches these eggs that sje is taking excellent care of, hatch in the nest box off the ground, will the chicks fallout and hurt themselves?
Should I move her, before they hatch?
If I move her will she not take back to her nest?
How should I handle the...
Earmites are more common in dogs than most think and can be spread from stray animals or visiting dogs or cats. They (well not the mites but the waste they give off) look like brown- black flaky/grainy crud, instead of just the dirty waxy stuff that would be normal. If your dog is trying to...
SandyPaws,
I am very sorry for your mothers loss and to here about the terrifying experience and death of your moms dog. This makes me very sad & angry too. I would like to see extreme punishment for those attacking dogs owners. If those were my dogs I would have had them destroyed myself. I...
There are so many laws on the books now that could and would control things.. If enforced which they are not, and if new laws are not enforced either the only ones that will be paying is the already responsible people, like myself with $10,000+ worth of kennels and so on. I do want to see...