We have 6 hens. 2 of them are bantams, and we feel sorry for the bantams, so we picked up 6 TSC variety bantam chicks this morning. I figured now was the time since we had the brooder set up for the ducks. Here is how I separated them.
Thanks for your information on the kid. He is back with his mom until weaning since we only have one. We will make plans to get a second goat by the time he returns.
TSC in my area, CA, gets their chicks from a hatchery in NM. I googled it and I found privett hatchery. I would check their website to see which looks like yours. I'm doing the same for my 6 new bantams.
I have a strange question. My wife has wanted a pet goat for a while, and I was out buying a rooster and the seller of the rooster had a bunch of goats. One had kids but she was supposedly a half/half goat sheep. The father was a boer goat. I picked up the kid and brought it home because my kids...
I bought ten from efowl.com. They shipped from Metzer, I believe. eleven shipped, and three died. For some reason USPS took 3 days to make a 3 hour drive. efowl customer service was excellent! I got a refund/store credit on the dead birds.
you could try leaving the chickens in the coop for 24 hours. Some birds take a while to know where home is. My guineas had to be cooped up for weeks before they found home. They still try to negotiate with me about where home is.
Thanks for the replies. Temperatures hovered around in the low 70s most of last month, so I was thinking the guineas started laying. I have such a variety of egg sizes that it is hard to determine which is chicken and which is guinea. my partridge Wyandotte and silver duckwing olde English game...