Recent content by ChickenKeep01

I've heard a lot of mixed things, some say its absolutely beautiful but others say its disgusting so only one way to find out

My peahen is currently sitting on 5 eggs and we already have 2 hens (One hasn't reached sexual maturity yet so she won't be laying this year) and one peacock. We don't have the resources to manage many more than this so on top of selling the peafowl that are hatched this year we plan to eat one...

I just saw my peahen put her tail feathers up and court my peacock as he normally does with her. She was shaking them slightly like a dance as was chasing him around in a playful way (Not scaring him it was like playing). Ive never heard of females courting males before so I'm just curious if...

The rest of the flock seems fine, i haven't seen any changes in appearance or behaviour in them so i think they are all ok with it

My hen is on about 15 eggs which are due to hatch within the next week and im in Australia, thankfully i am safe from the fires but the air is extremely smokes (500m-1k visibility) and im just worried about the chicks with the smoke. Is this something i need to worry about or will they be ok in...

I have a GLW hen who has been laying for about 3 months, at first we took the eggs from her to eat as the first clutch usually isn't fertile and we didn't want her to waste her time going broody but after a while, we started letting her collect eggs to sit on and by the time she reached 17 eggs...

I found an egg lying outside the coop on the ground, and the nesting box with the broody hen it quite far from the door so i assumed that it was from the other hen as her box is right next to the door, anyways i went to give it to my dog as a treat as it was covered in mud but when i broke it...

I doubt a snake would steal one from under her but maybe while shes out getting food

The other one currently isnt broody, shes laying her first clutch though

Typically king browns or red belly blacks but theres the occasional tiger as well

3 weeks ago today my hen started sitting on 14 eggs, so they were due to hatch today but when i went down and felt under her when i saw that there was no chicks i noticed there wasnt many eggs there i pulled her off them for a moment and i noticed there was only 5 eggs left. I've got no idea...

So about 5 months ago my GLW hen hatched her first full clutch of eggs with 11 hatching , we took 4 into hand raise and left the rest with her, everything went fine and i've sold most by now but a few weeks ago in Australia we had a very cold week with temperatures down to -4C at night, and this...

My GLW hen hatched 11 chicks about 2 months ago, about a month ago 2 died from a predator (I'm not sure what took them they just disappeared and the dog when spastic like she does when something is bothering the flock) so he has 9 left and today i was doing a check up on all of them and i...

Thanks, if you could show me some pictures that would really help

I've killed quite a few birds before and i did one yesterday (for eating) and the cleaver i was using had usually been fine, but i was doing bantams before and this was a full sized rooster, the blade wasn't strong enough to get through so unfortunately he had a bit of painful death but it was...