I actually liked the fact that they mowed my lawn (i had some last year). They needed almost no feed!! My lawn looks pretty bad without the geese. (Haven't mowed, luckily, the chickens have helped some..but they are in tractors).
However, the spouse REALLY hated the fact that the geese liked...
WOW! I really like the orangy one! With all of this gloomy-ness up north, I really prefer brightly colored chickens.
Of course, I say that, and I do really like my Marans too. The Marans are super shiny though, and the ones with good copper just pop!
Congrats on your chicks (but i agree...
:gig
However.... My kids left the door to the toy room open :somad so my spouse saw that toy room is currently full of quail.
Luckily the quail and I are both allowed to stay in the house. :D
I actually computed my over 50% hatch rate from:
Number of chicks hatched that lived to day 2 / Number of eggs arrived
I have 25 live chicks and 45 eggs were in the box.
Thank you @calichicken did you really get only one bantam cochin? :hugs
I agree, they are VERY cute, and keep tempting me. I have to say very firmly "no single combs!!!"
Both eyes blind, or only one eye? With one eye it can live well....with no eyes, I would kill it.
:hide the last one I had to kill, I fed it to my Muscovy drake. He was perfect, and killed it in one snap.
me, I am ecstatic! I have an over 50% hatch rate on my shipped quail.
I had one that hatched with messed up leg joints. Everything looked OK, but the knee joints were a bit swollen, and the legs wouldn't move the way they should when I played with them. I was thinking, if they still moved...
dump I say, the dump!
I love the dump, it is so awesome!
Free wood and plywood pieces galore! But yep, you probably just need a big cardboard box.
I will often get two or even three cardboard boxes and join them together.