...what color eggs do they lay? My BR hen just hatched her last chick, and it has slight feathering on it's legs, and is super duper fluffy, more so than it's hatch mates. Besides the coloring (chipmunk) it looks (and acts) exactly like my two Salmon Faverolles did when they were chicks.
The...
Chicks continue to amaze me. Whenever I think that a chick just could not possibly have survived something (like the time one almost froze to death and was almost too weak to cheep) then it lives. And when I say, "It should be fine!" it usually dies. :(
Our first hen went broody a little before...
My White Silkie hen, Amelia, went broody about a month ago. I am not sure exactly when, as my younger brother collects the eggs and I am more caught up with taking care of the goats now. But the day after I discovered that she was broody, we had eggs for dinner and there were at least 7 eggs...
Feel free to post many pictures of your goats on this thread, and talk about them (even if you don't have any yet)!
We currently have a herd of 12 dairy goats. Over the next few days I am hoping to post pictures of every single one of them, including their names and breeds and ages. We have 9...
Yesterday I noticed that the area around one of my D'Uccles' eyes is watery and swollen. She was and still is acting normal, and I gave her some (homemade) plain yogurt mixed with apple cider vinegar (this has helped previously when one of my chickens had a similar problems), and she ate a tiny...