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We free-range our guinea fowl, and yesterday found a nest my mum's garden with about 15~25 eggs in it. Well, I went out there this morning, and yep, the guinea fowl is sitting on it and has been for ages. What I'm worried about is a fox getting in and killing her at night. She is in a very...

Hi there, My parent's have guinea fowl and I think they're just starting to lay cause I found a triangular shaped egg in the middle of the grass (that looked like it didn't realize it was laying, like our chicken pullets did when they first started). We free-range ours all the time. I've...

Hi there, I'm thinking about getting ducks especially to get duck eggs to sell... there is plenty of woman in our community who love baking, and would love to get their hands on some duck eggs. I currently have chickens, would it be alright if I just get one or two ducks and pen them together...

He is quite young, although I am not sure how long ago he started crowing, but it sounds kinda like a distant dog howling. He is a Silkie rooster. Will it likely get better into a proper sounding crow over the next few weeks? Thanks

Hi! I have 6 guineas, 2 male, 4 female (I think.. haha, well I know theres at least 3 females anyway) and usually I keep them in with my other laying chickens. It's starting to come onto spring and I still can't find any guinea eggs (I spent a little bit of my afternoon searching through long...

I bought three silkies back in June, two hens and a cockerel (which was pretty much only 2-5 months old at the time) from a pet store (stupidest idea ever, they cost $85.00 all up, $40 for each hen and $5 for the rooster). Anyway, two weeks after getting them, one of the hens started laying. It...

I got a pair of Japanese bantams about three weeks ago now from a show breeder. She keeps them all seperate from each other in special cages, and was selling two, a hen and a rooster and said that the rooster is 12 months old, and then hen is 24 months old. So we got the two (from their...

Hi! I'm a Silkie man, I've started a flock of three Silkies in their own coop and run, and I've bought them especially for breeding. The rooster is still young at the moment, so it's useless breeding them now (hopefully he'll be grown up by the end of the year), but one of my two hens has gone...

I've had my three silkies about a month now, two hens and a (young, still not old enough to crow) roo. The two hens, I'm pretty sure are pullets, and one has just started laying eggs: so far she's layed four small white eggs. The other one doesn't seem to lay eggs, and I'm starting to think...

This morning I let my three silkies out for a free-range, two hens and a roo. I went inside to get breakfast, listening to the dogs go crazy as always from inside their kennels. Anyway, I came outside and one of the dogs had just managed to climb over the fence surrounding her kennel, and was...

Ok, I've got three silkies in my chicken tractor - 2 hens and a rooster. Firstly, when I bought them, the hens were $40 each, the rooster was only $5 (Aussie dollars)... why is there such a price difference in them? One of the local farmers said that when he was younger, he used to breed...

Went down to the coop to put the dogs away (we keep the dog kennels near to the coop, to help prevent foxes from coming near), and watched one of the hens jump up on the roo's back as there was no spot on the roost (he was sitting comfortably on the perch). She kind of sat there for a few...

Sorry if I posted this in the wrong section, but I've got three silkies in my chicken tractor - 2 hens and a rooster. When I bought them, the hens were $40 each, the rooster was only $5 (Aussie dollars)... why is there such a price difference in them? One of the local farmers said that when he...

So this is my first hatch and I have four eggs that I could see with blood vessels in the early days growing. So they are definitely fertile. That was around day 5 that I could see development. It is now day 13 and with every single light in my house I use, all four eggs are pitch black! I...

Being new to the chicken scene, I've heard about these "spurs" that roosters have, massive spikey things on the back of their leg? I've recently gotten some new silkies, as well as a new silkie rooster. I was looking at his feet and saw what I thought was two massive spurs, which I thought was...

I live in the small rural town near Toowoomba, Australia and I've decided that I want to breed chickens to sell at the local farmers markets in town, which are held once a month. I've already bought a few wholesale waterers and feeders (although, they are very small) to sell at these markets...

I've just posted my design in the Coops area, of the chicken tractor me and my dad built yesterday. https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/wulluss-tractor However, I put my three silkies straight into the run after moving them outside and they don't seem to want to go inside the wooden house...

Hey! How are you all? :) I have a flock of 10 birds, now 13 after today. The existing flock was 1x barred rock rooster 5x ISA brown hens (like an Aussie version of a Red Star i guess) 1x white sussex hen (whoppa) 3x 8week old chicks. It's been a while since we've had all these chooks, but...

I have 4 eggs in the incubator- 3 are normal sized, and 1 is a really tiny one (must have been one of my other Hen's first lay. Anyway, the small one seems to be the one with all the blood vessels and stuff happening in it. I can hardly see inside it, but I could faintly see small vessels and...

I went to order some day old chicks from our local farmer supply store, and ordered 6 girls, 2 of each red, white and black, I forgot to ask the bloke what breed they were, but until I am called to go and collect them, do you know what breed they could possibly be? All I was told was the...