I'm sooo excited to get some eggs under her! Any suggestions on breeds? at the moment I think I'm going to get some silkie eggs off of eBay but I also need some inspiration of colours and all sorts, so any suggestion are very much welcomed!
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I'm going to get some eggs and just see how it goes then, COME ON MOTHER NATURE! :D by the end of the week she will be on some eggs! Yeah my coop is plenty big enough it's 6 by 8 so I will section of an area for her tomorrow! How eggisting!!
I'm aware that I probably sound stupid fretting over our temperatures but do you think she will need a heat supliment or anything? And should I separate her before or after the chicks hatch (she is at the bottom of the hierarchy)? And how often should I get her off of her next to do her...
Nahh getting eggs wont be a problem at all really! Will 0 Degrees Celsius be too low? Also how many eggs do you put under your smaller broodies? And will wood shavings be good enough for her to set in?
A long story short! (well shorter). On the 25th of July last year I went to a little village country show and saw a hen WITH SIX DAY OLD CHICKS!! But I managed to walk away saying to myself that if they were still there in the cold and wet tomorrow I would take them home! The next day came and...
Hi guys, I recently bought a goldtop hen with some babies for a country show solely for the reason that they were too cute to leave behind. Anyway twelve weeks later I have totally fallen in love with everything that is silkie about Martha the mother hen and I NEED MORE! So does anyone know of...
I don't really know where to start... Well I woke up a bit late so didn't open the shed where the brooder is so as its such a hot day it was unbearably hot in there so I thought I would put them on the grass in a guinea pig run (obviously not with the guinea pigs aha) well I sat with them and...
WOW that is just what I needed! Thank you so much! I'm going to stick to my word and wait till the morning and see how she is and if she still going im going to try that strait away! Once again, thank you so so so much you've given my a glimpse of hope!!
So two out of the three chicks I got are right as rain running around eating and drinking but the third is having real difficulty standing, infact sitting on its front is the real issue! I have no clue what to do please Help!!! I'm just going to bed so I told her if she makes it thought the...
Yay!!! Chick number two hatched, All by itself, whoop whoop so happy that the first chick managed to raise the humidity so much! And now the third little eggs has externally pipped... Woooo
This hatch has been so much harder that the previous one I did in winter! I have just been having so much trouble with the humidity and couldn't get if high enough for when my first chuck pipped. Well anyway because it wasn't moist enough this chick was just getting wrapped like cling flim by...