natural breeding

So one of my mama chickens went broody and well you know what’s next if there’s a rooster around… chicks!!! Now almost 3 weeks old. The mom seems like she’s needing a break and space from them to roll in the dirt. I’m not sure what to do because I work in the day and if I let her out in the...

Hi, I am taking care of friends' young duck couple who had never gone broody before. It's about day 24-26 (I don't bother them and they did remove some non-viables in the first 2 weeks, so anything is only approximate). Their behavior is different this morning - normally he gets her up, they...

one of our silkie eggs hatched today, (i was letting our silkies hatch them) but i need help figuring out who the mom is. we have a white silkie rooster, a female white silkie, a female brown silkie and a female black silkie with no feathers on her neck (my friend told me shes a showgirl? 🤷‍♀️)...