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They are just too sweet! I miss mine so much...blasted mink came and wiped out all of my WHs and most all of my chickens a couple of months ago.

The eggs under my little broody WH have started hatching! She was hissing the entire time I was snapping photos, so I didn't check to see if any more had hatched. When she goes broody, she's determined to be a mommy, so rather than try to break her up, I put chicken eggs under her since I...

I've had 60+ WH, and she's the only one I've had go broody....and she does it every year. The others are way to busy laying.

I've heard the same thing, so you and I just must be blessed with a couple of the rare ones that go broody. Red Sex Link chickens aren't supposed to go broody either, but I have a young Red Sex Link hen that hatched out 10 chicks last month and is a very protective mom. And I couldn't be happier.

Mine is doing the same thing, but she's going on 8 years old. They are such good mommas. I didn't have any fertile eggs so had to run out and find some. Since all I could find were chicken eggs, that's what she's on. But that's ok, as she's experienced in hatching out and brooding chicks...

That, or the stress of everything she'd been through. I'm sorry.

If only you could get it back in, and then put in a couple of stitches yourself...our local farm supply store has needles and sutures, so you might check yours if you are willing to go that route. I did my son's leg when he cut it open with a chainsaw. He refused to go to ER, so I didn't have...

I'm so sorry, @LightningTFarm .

I can believe it. When I was into breeding and showing rabbits, I paid over $100 for a little buck to improve my lines. While I could have picked up a similar sized and colour buck for $5 at the local swap meet, what I paid for that buck was money well spent. Just because you can pick up a WH...

Actually, according to the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy, Welsh Harlequin ducks are currently considered in "Critical" status for 2014...in other words, very much in danger of the breed going extinct. "Critical: Fewer than 500 breeding birds in the United States, with five or fewer...

We lost a lame duckling to a hawk several years ago, but that was our only loss from a hawk. There is a pair of hawks that nest near us year after year, and we occasionally see in the trees near the barn, but they have never taken any of the grown ducks. We have bird feeders set up all over the...

Two drakes, with the hen in the middle. I have a drake that looks like the one on the left whenever he goes into molt. The rest of the year he has a solid green head.

@DaisyMeadow that is adorable!!!

I've done the fences, the locking the animals up at night (which does nothing for the day time thieves), the sound/light motion alarms etc., and I've found that nothing beats a good LGD (livestock guardian dog). I'm not talking about a "farm" dog (although they have their place), but rather a...

I have two WH that are going on 8 years old and they are still laying on a pretty regular basis - providing more than enough to do my weekly baking. I never do supplemental lighting or anything during the winter to keep them laying. in fact, they have been raised naturally since the day they...

I raised and showed rabbits for years and can't tell you how many trios of show quality rabbits I gave away to 4-H youth who were sincerely interested in raising and showing them. It did my heart good to see these young breeders end up with blue ribbons on rabbits I gave them. Even though I no...

I just sold a WH drake and 3 WH hens for a total of $40. Not show quality (not IMHO anyway), but far from being mutts. Like many others, I usually cut back on my herds/flocks each year in late Fall. More often than not, the Fall prices are noticeably less than Spring/Summer prices. Of course...

She's Beautiful!!! Congrats!

Mine STILL prefer to stay outside at night and I've got some that are over 5 years old. Each night youngest son goes out and rounds them up and herds them into their house and locks them up (to protect them from opossums, raccoons, ect). They all know the routine, so they don't scatter...

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