Did it work out? I am in the same boat and so far the older one is picking at the younger one.
I have an day old duckling whose nest mate died. at the same time I had a second broody hen hatching a clutch of chick eggs and one duck egg. today that ducking hatched and I want them to grow up...
I have had 2 SLW roos that have been totally backwards. I hate to judge the breed by these two but it sure did seem strange to have both turn out to be horrible roosters. the first one we had was bought from a farm before he got too old, so we arnt sure of his past but he was just awful. he...
I got these two Americanas as pullets and they started laying eggs just like all the others. and they laid for several months all the way through winter and now they have stopped laying, and I thought maybe it was just a break or something, for a week. but then its gone on for at least a month...
Okay. MY fiance and I bought 7 hens over the corse of this August, 2011. We started with 3, a Buff Orpington and 2 Rhode Island Reds. then we bought 2 Americanas and then later we bought 2 more mix breed hens. No roosters. Right now 3 are laying and the rest are very close to laying.
The...