Well, I have a little gold bantam sitting on a shelf above a window in my feed shed. She has 6 eggs under her - no idea how old or how viable they are and a dead mouse! Got the dead mouse away from her but she is fierce about those eggs! I can't leave here there due to the pet door for the barn...
I honestly believe that guineas are the dumbest creatures on earth! We have pulled a black snake OUT FROM UNDER a sitting guinea, with 3 eggs in its belly ! At night, after running free all day, half of the gang goes into the lighted coop & the other half stand outside and scream like there are...
Confession time: I have fallen off the 'no more chickens' wagon with a THUD! In the incubator sits 27 bantam & sebright eggs, due to hatch tomorrow and Sunday. Went to the co-op for starter feed, came home with 7 beautiful little cochins & lakenvalds! I have obviously gone insane! Every year I...