Recent content by BarredRocks3

My guess would be pullets.

Hi y'all, I had a hen sitting on 7 eggs and 6 six of them have hatched out so far. Now that she's finally got her babies I'm wondering what to do now. I have chick crumble and plenty of chick friendly founts but no idea what to do with the mama and little guys. Currently I have them locked in...

This is my 3-4 week old silver sebright, any guesses at what gender it is?

If possible, set up a string or something like that to the door of the chicken coop then wait for the fox to walk itself in and close the door with the string and trap it in their and then kill it. Another thing that may work is to urinate around the coop to get your human scent around there and...

Generally chickens don't run away forever. Mine have gone missing for a night or two and showed up in the morning by the coop looking for some food. Most predators will not attack during a storm. I don't believe that a rain storm could kill chickens. I wouldn't sweat it. :)

So we had ducks and now there gone (they were both drakes so we had to get rid of them.) Now in the spring my family is debating over what we get in the spring, ducks or geese? Which consumes more water and is more messy? Anybody like one more than the other or are they the same care wise?

I got two Pekin drakes and i only wanted a drake and hen or two hens. Both drakes haven't had any health problems and they are about 13-15 weeks of age. I'm willing to trade BOTH of them for a young hen and drake or ONE of them for a young hen. Preferably not mallards and the oldest bird I'd be...

How many times a day for the ointment?

I have a thirteen week old Pekin drake, one of this eyes now has a nasty looking infection or something. The iris has turned from a blue ish color to red brown. It's getting red around the eye aswell and it looks like the eye itself is shifting away from the bill and under the skin leaving a...

It's about seven weeks old

My barred rock hen finally went broody, now how would I go about caring for her? Should I keep her on the coop or move her? Now she sits on about nine eggs and I'm worried she'll move if I remove the about 5 of the eggs.

At what age would my Pekin hens start laying and Pekin drakes start mating?

I have two Pekin ducks that are about 9-10 weeks old and I think they might be shedding possibly juvenile feathers? They're chest and underside area is starting to look a bit shaggy likes it's missing some feathers, is this normal and if not are they sick or what? After swimming they get out of...

Change of plans, he is no longer for sale due to a raccoon attack last night. It got him and three others. :(:(