My hen is broody. She has no eggs, but has been taking eggs from other birds (not fertile). I have turkey eggs due to hatch any day now. Should I give her 1-2 eggs to hatch or can I give her freshly hatched poults under her?
Wasn't able to hold all 13 Bourbon Red poults, So my daughter decided to pull out two birds to play with. They are so funny. They didn't want to walk around. Instead, they wanted to follow us and perch on us to cuddle. Goofy birds.
I think the boy is on the left and girl on right. Size kinda...
Out of 6 birds, I was lucky to get 5 hens and 1 roo. Sadly I don't wish to breed him to his sisters, so I'd like to trade or Sell this lovely young roo.
Willing to drive 2 hours to do the exchange.
He is greenfire line.
I am located in Bedminster, Bucks County PA.
Thank you for looking
I have Lavender/Lavender Showgirl hatching eggs. Parents have showed, and did well! They are now making wonderful babies. Produced by Cloverfield farms in PA.
The Showgirls are considered bowtied. The eggs are collected every day. Turned three times a day.
I will not ship since I feel the...
I have 9 chicks that are 6 weeks old going on 7 weeks and I'd love for them to go outside, but the temps are in the 20s at night and 30s during the day. I have no eletricity outside so a heat lamp is out of the question. Will it be too cold for them to be placed outside?
This little girl/guy is very small for it's age. This little one is an olive egger (which I've never seen an OE that is not black). All the rest of it's mates are fully feathered and thriving. This little peep is the size of a two week or three week old chick. It eats, drinks, does everything...
This is a 5 and a half week old Black Copper Marans chick. I'm leaning towards a male. I have another BCM, but it's comb is much more smaller and pea comb like.
What does everyone else think?
Now entering the teenage phase (5-7 weeks old). I know the Welsummer cross is a rooster, and the Black Copper Marans looks like a rooster too. What do you think?
And here's my cute BCMs Teenager.
I didn't notice till I took him outside for photo's and noticed he's got pretty blue eyes. Never in my life have I seen a blue eyed chicken! Will they change as he grows? He's a Welsummer Freedom ranger cross
He's only 2.5 weeks old
I have 4 Lavender silkie and 1 Lavender showgirl(bowtie naked neck) Chicks.
HATCH DATES:
Two hatched 1/6/2013
Two hatched 1/11/2013
One hatched 1/12/2013.
65.00 for all 5 chicks. Expecting a 6th Lavender egg to hatch next weekend January 26th. If you wait till 1/26 Price will be $75 (buy 5...
Months ago, our white silkie hen had laid 3 eggs. All hatched and grew up. I placed her back with her flock and she never got the chance to lay more eggs since it got cold and the days got shorter.
Weeks have passed and I got a trio of silkies. With in 24 hours, they laid a couple eggs. They...
I have gotten a trio of showgirl Lavenders and they laid eggs a couple weeks ago. The first set of eggs have hatched yesterday and one came out lavender while the other hatched out a lavender showgirl. i have no clue how much baby lavender/lavender showgirl silkies go for? I don't want to...
From the trio of Lavender silkies. Rooster is a Lavender and the hens are Lavender showgirls (bowtie). First egg hatched a couple hours ago and the other one is zipping as we speak! First one looks like a lavender. He/she is still wet.
Here's baby chick #1.
I got a trio of very nice lavander showgirl silkies. Paid a good price for them. But my question is, how much are lavender showgirl silkies worth these days? I've seen prices online for almost over $25 a bird up to $100 a bird. I paid $75 for an adult trio. Very lovely birds. They laid eggs and...
I took it upon myself to take a few pictures of my 10 week old silkie chicks. Let me tell you, that was HARD! They kept wanting to run to my camera or my hands. I was able to get a few good shots, but man was this a pain! lol I still love them! Wish I knew which ones are girls or boys. I gotta...
I can't believe these guys are now 9 weeks old! Where has the time gone?!
week 1 compaired to week 9! It's still at it's ugly phase.
This one looks much better.
I'm starting to think this one might be a rooster. but I could be way off! lol
Can't wait to see what they look like when they...
Super excited! Picking him up early morning. He's about 2 1/2 years old. I'm honestly looking forward to working on our Narragansett project. Since our Bronze Male is a BBB, he'll be thanksgiving dinner. So we are replacing what we thought was a standerd bronze, to a Narragansett Tom :) I will...
They are now a month old. It's amazing how ugly they are at the moment. Their adult feathers are coming in, and still have SOME of there baby chick feathers in. So they look so odd looking. Talk about the ugly duckling phase. They turn into beautiful birds once they get past this phase. I can't...