Recent content by Vadgo

Thank you for the info in shipping. I would offer to pay but I am also not able to budget that kind of expense. Hopefully somebody local wants him? He comes with a bag of feed as well.

How do i ship? Usps? Would it survive?

Hi. My small flock was attacked by a predator and I lost my 3 hens. My rooster survived. The coop is not heated and with winter coming I'm afraid he wont make it. He is 3 yr old. His mom was a german spitzauben and the dad was a speckled sussex mix. He is very nice. Never attacked kids or...

I called the chickens to give them treats and noticed my 1.5 yr old Buttercup "running" over to get food on slow motion and looking like she was drunk. She acts "normal", only everything is in slow motion. You know how their heads bob when they walk? hers is a slow motion bob. She forages with...

THanks for your replies. Kelsey - So when a broody tosses out the quitters, are the eggs pushed completely out from under her? Last night the one that I think is a dud was not under her completely, but it was still mostly covered by her feathers behind her. I'll take a look in a couple of days...

I know there are pictures to look at, but I'm not sure exactly what day the eggs are. I think day 12, but could be anywhere from day 11 to day 16. I checked three days ago, three out of the 4 eggs were moving, but I left all four under her in case that 4th one was a few days younger. Today I...

Good news! I candled her eggs the other night and 3 out of 4 were moving. The 4th one might be up to 3 days younger than the other ones, so I though maybe I'd give it a couple more days to check. There were veins and I black dots for the eyes, but I didn't see it moving. When rotated gently it...

Thanks Chickenducksandagoose. Good luck with yours. Debiraymond - I'm not sure how long she's been sitting on eggs. I quit going out to the coop around December as I was too big with pregnancy and the yard was under 6 ft of snow. My DH did chores for me. I finally got out there two weeks ago...

I have a barred rock that is sitting on some eggs. Because of newborn in my house, my dh had been doing chicken duties since January, and he didn't know that a hen sitting in her nest instead of the roost at night meant she was broody. So he kept taking her eggs, and she'd been incubating golf...

Thanks Gertie. I hope is nothing really to worry about. But the fact that they have been clean for the last seven months, and now all of the sudden this past week they seem to be getting the poopy butts I thought maybe something is going on. I also thought that since they free range and birds...

I have 14 chickens 7 mo old (4 roosters, 4 bantams, 6 others). They free range every day. Egg production seems to have gone down, but not really sure because I usually get 5/6 eggs ave. per day with highs of 8/9. Two days in the past week I've had 3 eggs. I thought maybe with daylight...

Thanks for the replies. Digging a hole in the middle of winter could be challenging. Also, I live in the country, so my garbage goes to the county landfill and when you sign up you get a nice note with bold letters pointing out that dead animals, among other things, are not accepted, and if...

Hi, I lost a chicken the otherday, she went broody on me and decided to lay her eggs outside and didn't come into the coop at night. So she was taken. I saw a huge possum, so I'm setting up live traps. I know I have raccoons too in the area, and whatever it was will now come and trey to eat...

I have 17 week old roosters and one hen that have to go. Is that old enough, or should I wait a bit longer?

Thanks for the replies. I want to keep a couple of roosters because my flock free ranges on my 10 acres and I'm hoping that they can offer some protection. I have 8 roosters and I'm watching them to see who will stay and who will go. Mean roo is a gonner. I kept him and the mean hen away for a...