I thought I would share a small project we have going on. Our birds are layer breeds. For some reason this year the broodies only wanted to be broody in the nest boxes and not where we would relocate them to. So for the few hatched we did this year, when a hen would go broody, we would leave her...
Does anyone have issues with the first hatched chicks kicking around the hatching eggs and causing death? It seems in almost every hatch we get at least one that is making good progress until a chick that hatched earlier kicks it around and if it lands beak down, it dies? I was watching the last...
This is a 10 week old blue EE mix. I am not sure of specific background or what it may be mixed with. It confused me because at 5-6 weeks, I was sure it was a roo. It developed a reddish comb and was more upright than the simile aged chicks of different backgrounds. Now, it’s comb is more...