Mom Black Pied, Dad Lavender...
Please see pics... at about 3 days old...
Muscovy duck babies...Mom in pic is black pied...dad is gorgeous Lavender... chicks carry recessive lavender for breeding purposes... healthy babies... hatched 9/6/14 asking $30 for 3 babies...$38 for 4 babies... pet...
I have 8 hens and 2 Muscovy ducks (a drake and a hen)...
The ducks live under my chicken coop at night and they all free range together in the day.
About two weeks ago my Austrolop (sp) started laying in the duck nest rather than the hen boxes.
Three days ago she would not come out...
I have 8 hens and 2 Muscovy ducks (a drake and a hen)...
The ducks live under my chicken coop at night and they all free range together in the day.
About two weeks ago my Austrolop (sp) started laying in the duck nest rather than the hen boxes.
Three days ago she would not come out...
Twisted toenail on hen, do I trim back a little or all the way?
Another rescued hen. At one time one of her legs had scale ( I covered it with vaseline for a few weeks).
It seems like the scale healed before I got her but the longest toe grew a twisted nail as a result and it is over 1/2...
I was given an older RS hen in January. I was told she was 3 but she maybe almost 4 years.
She was laying huge eggs, much bigger then my RIR hens. The eggs were thin shelled and broke occasionally.
I encouraged eating of laying pellets by making a mash for a few weeks and she laid just fine...
SO I have 4 adult hens. Three are currently laying (one is older).
I picked up some chicks from 2-5 weeks and I was given a pair of bantams about 8 weeks.
The new ones are kept separately in a run adjacent to the hen house.
The hens free range and stay in the hen house at night, but do not...
HI,
I have 5 hens now and I wonder as they free range is it ok for them to be out in the heavy rain?
...the two older girls hide in the bushes or return to the coop but the 10 month old RIR girls (3) just wander around and get wet...
Also I was given two older birds a Barred rock (Rocky)...
HELP HELP...
I was given three hand raised RIR, they are just under one year old...it rains quite a bit here in OR and the girls are breaking into my sun porch!
They found out how the dog flap works and instead of going into their coop they are breaking into the sun porch to roost! They...