Thanks! I did check on them a couple times and they seemed to be fine, and they were great this morning. But I'm glad to know others have taken them off heat that early. Their coop is pretty big so they won't be able to soak it.
I'm raising 13 ducklings for the first time, and I've just today moved them into an outdoor coop but I'm wondering if it's too soon?
They are a mix of ages and I'm not sure exactly but I know the youngest are about 2 weeks old, maybe a little more, and the oldest maybe 5 weeks.
I don't have...
Hi all,
We have some 1-day-old chicks in a brooder and my 3-year-old accidentally stepped on one. It was a near miss - I think she only pinched its tail. No obvious signs of injury other than some bleeding around the cloaca, which seems to have stopped now. Can't tell for sure if it was coming...
Sorry for your losses. I know how sad it is to have new chicks suddenly die and not know why...
I know it's a little late, but since you mentioned you have multiple broody hens, I would separate them from the rest of the flock if you want to give the chicks the best chance for survival. I just...
Just wanted to wish you luck with your chicks! I'm going through similar difficulties with a broody hen that's either clumsy or just really unlucky, and a bunch of fertile/mostly developed eggs got crushed or chicks died shortly after hatching. I'm amazed you were able to save that one given the...
They do teach them to drink...even if they don't deliberately, the chicks will copy what the mamas do. The key is that they learn by example. Even if you're raising chicks without a hen, even just showing a few of the chicks where the water is will probably suffice, because the others will see...
That did occur to me last year, that maybe that hen just wasn't a very good mother. But these are the only two hens of mine who have ever gone broody, and they've both had pretty abysmal mortality rates, so I'm suspicious that either there's something else going on (like a disease maybe?), or...
Hi everyone, I'm trying to figure out why the chicks that hatch under my broody hens have such a high mortality rate, especially compared to those I've hatched in an incubator.
When I've hatched eggs in an incubator, I've had a pretty good success rate. Last year I had 19 chicks hatch from a...
I also like woodchips. Even fresh ones are ok in my experience - I keep my coop door open during the day and even when I put in wet woodchips they seem to dry out within a couple of days. Anyway I've never had an issue with mold, I just pile more chips on top of the poop piles and a few times a...
Um, he's mad at YOU because he's worried HIS dog will eat YOUR chickens? That's some pretty !@#$ed up logic. He shouldn't be letting his dog off the leash, particularly when there are leash laws.
That being said, being combative is rarely helpful, and threatening to call the authorities on him...
As others have said, you have to weigh the costs and benefits or find a middle ground that suits your life, your flock, and your particular situation.
For what it's worth, last year I let a group of 6 chicks free range during the day because they'd gotten used to it while with the broody hen...
It really depends on where you live. Some neighborhoods have at least one Karen living there who will take it upon herself to report her law-breaking neighbor.
Know what I hate most about the mail service? 80% of what they deliver to you is unsolicited junk mail, and you can't opt out of it...
Rofl I know right? I read a 1 star review on yelp for a restaurant - they were mad because some people walked into the restaurant without their masks on, and so the reviewer confronted them about how they were putting her immunocompromised friend at risk. Meanwhile they're surrounded by people...
Eh, it's a 3 year old video. I don't think youtubers read comments posted more than a month or so after a video is posted. Besides, they're just quoting the CDC, not making their own claims. It's the CDC that needs a comments section.
I agree that veggies are always better from your own garden. Unfortunately, living the arctic tundra of New England, our growing season is tragically short. And my stupid rental property has pretty poor soil, so while I do what I can to amend it, it takes a lot of work just to squeeze a small...
I did hear something about that, though now I can't remember what the context was. Something to do with limiting when people could grow crops on their fields, and saying that if you're not supposed to be growing crops during that time, then you have no reason to be putting manure from your own...
Ok wait, I know this is getting off topic, but how does eating your encapsulated placenta risk transferring bacteria to your baby? The placenta was feeding the baby while it was in utero, and the placenta is dessicated immediately to prevent spoilage, so where are these foreign bacteria coming...
The article I originally linked to is actually pretty accurate from what I can tell. If it's unbalanced it's because the source is a publication that specializes in news related to agriculture, so naturally they're primarily concerned with how it would affect the industry. It doesn't actually...
I've often heard carcasses referred to as "meat", especially during the butchering process. I'm not going to argue semantics. The similarity I was noting referred to the way the raw flesh of a pig being butchered looks similar to human flesh. I wouldn't know what a cannibal's dinner looks like...