I currently have 2 Black Giant X NH hens; Port and Starboard, nearly identical except for their comb flop. Their brother is Rusty one of 4 Roos penned seperately, 2 Black Giant Pullets with 2 Black Giant cockerals, and 3 New Hampshire hens. (11/22/08). Also 9 Delaware x Cornish chicks hatched...
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That's actually a myth. My cats both are well-fed mousers. Actually, Rowdy is a mouser, a wood-ratter, and has been known to tree raccoons. It was fun watching Uncle Rowdy teaching Emily the kitten how to mouse. He would bring in a mouse, take it to the top of the stairs, then bat it...
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If she has 7 then someone needs to tell her what causes that.
Well said cowboy!
I don't know if the chicken "kiss" could really be explained as "love" considering the apparent brutality of the act. But considering one's audience, perhaps that is the best way to explain it. lol
I wonder if dubbing is as painful as piercings, or circumcision, or tattoos?
I've come home to find roos with torn and bloody combs and wattles from fighting. I found one with a hole torn in his comb and another with a chunk bitten out. It seems that if it is red, it is a target to peck at...
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That's a line from a foke song. Red Sovine & Johnny Bond - The Gear Jammer And The Hobo
Not being dumb its a country joke.
I've heard that one quite often as well. along with the advice; "Just turn it over and put the flat side up and it will be fine".
Death and Dying, Sex and Reproduction, and Where food comes from are not taught in schools because they have always been observed at home on the farm. Now that we are removed from farm life these areas are giving society fits.
If city slickers knew about these rules, perhaps a lot of silly...
From my end of the Coop.
My White Cornish hen was found in a nesting box with two chicks, one of which wasn't hers. Now for a hen that grabbed a chick that was a few days old and flings it in the air with seemingly violent intent, this came to me as a bit of a supprise. The chick is the...
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Howyadoin' Shelleyd? Good to hear from you.
Unfortunately I have 35 pound feeders that I only have to fill about once a week. So I am not the food guy. I do come down a couple times a day and give scratch treats but that doesn't seem to have any real connection to me either.
I...
Wow! One of the newly hatched chicks about 4-6 days old fell out of its nest and got in with the other young chicks. You would have thought that it was a wicked beast from hell the way the cornish hen grabbed it an gave it a fling. I guess I now know what happened to one of her chicks that...
Current news from my end of the coop.
The sixth and hopefully last of my broody hens finally hatched a single chick after being on and off a nest for the past four weeks. It also appears that she is molting. She is doing okay, just appears to be stressed.
She is still sitting on the eggs...
Probably not. Shelleyed2008 would be someone to contact. She has a link to hatching goose eggs. I don't know much about goose eggs but as I understand it the goose will get off the nest to get wet then return to the nest and eggs soaking them in water fairly regularly.
Good luck.
I agree with Joe B. Make the box about 3 foot square with a nest box inside. This allows her to get off the nest box and eat, drink and poop off the nest. It also keeps other hens from donating eggs when and if she goes broody. It will also serve as a brooder for the first week.
I've had...
I kind of have another question/observation. I have one 7 week old chick with no broody who keeps insisting on getting back into the brooder pen with three momma hens and their chicks. It's not too big a deal. But the observation concern of mine is the momma hens and their chicks. I have two...
I am happy for one of my broody hens Finnaly after about four weeks she has two empty egg shells in the nest with her but outside her fluffed up feathers. She is an easily panic'd white cornish and I like my hands to remain in one piece so I haven't looked under her. The other hen got off...
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Good luck! Sharpies are your friend when you have broodies setting in the general population As long as they aren't they type of hen that will eat your arm off when you check them
I've not tried sharpies. Pens and pencils tend to get rubbed off so I quit trying with them. Thanks...
I would like to report a situation where I'm not sure if I am lucky or not. Kind of one of those mixed blessings things. I moved and reduced my flock to accomodate and wanted to further reduce my numbers as time and circumstances occasioned, so I did not plug in my incubator this year.
I...
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We will be at the Marathon lot. Right off I75 at exit 136. Super easy to get to.
Thanks! July 17, at exit 136, Marathon station lot. Got ya... hope I can make it.
I now have three fluffy butts and one still wet, on these first few hours of day 21. All are dark cornish so my roo is...
My first group of broody hens hatched out two chicks and then one got stepped on and killed the other one dissappeared. I guess they fought over them. They all got off the nests after that so I removed all the eggs and put in fresh bedding. I will isolate the next ones if any hatch from the...