Search results for query: *

What is this? I just noticed it while I was topping off water and collecting eggs. This had to have happened fast. we did move some chickens around recently. The favored hens needed a break from breeding. Is this possibly from squabbles? Is it possibly cancer? I'm at a loss. I have never see...

This was my first hatch of the year, I just grabbed eggs from coops and filled the incubator. Some of them are Plymouth/ sapphire jem crosses, and one is a rode island red cross. I think I managed yo get an egg from Mt Plymouth rock rooster and hens in there as well because I got a barred chick...

I have free range guineas, they don't fall for golf balls in their nest, I have been looking for artificial Guinea eggs and I can not find them! Does anyone know where I can get some? I don't think they'd fall for chicken eggs either. I could be wrong, but if I can just get eggs that look like...

I am working on getting set up to add Rabbits to my farm for meat. I have been reading a lot about keeping them with chickens, so that is my plan. I just need to get the nest boxes figured out so I can add them to my coops. Would a 2 foot cube be big enough for a burrow? Is that is too small...

I have 3 flocks of chickens, 1 of which has been giving me problems. We have been working on them, things have been improving but I have hit a weird point and I am not sure what to do next. My question is, can the hens in question just be split between different flocks, or should they be housed...

Things are getting crazy expensive, animal feed is one of the big ones. I'm curious what everyone is doing to cut down their feed costs? one of the things I have been doing is finding whole seeds I can sprout. I ran into an issue of where to sport them, until it hit me again. Plants do not care...

How are they different from chickens care wise? I know they can't be kept with my chickens. I'll keep them in separate parts of the yard. I keep my chickens in tractors and move them every day, sometimes a few times a day depending on how their grass looks. Can I see some turkey tractors? I'm...

I have sapphire gem hens in with a barred Plymouth rock rooster, would the chicks from this pairing be sex-linked? If so how would they present? Would the hens be the blue/purple/Grey color and the rooster be barred? I have some black chicks from the pairing as well.

I just learned about the waterglass method of preserving eggs. I Googled this in like 10 different ways and couldn't get an answer either way. Will eggs hatch after they have been preserved by waterglassing? I live in the south, my chickens only slow down in the winter. There's no reason to...