Hey everyone long time since my last post... so today I decided to clean the stalls in the barn. To my surprise I found a nest of duck eggs. Now my only female duck which is a Pekin, hasn't been laying the past 2 months, I assumed it was because of some stress from a recent raccoon raid(lost my...
Hi everyone! I need some help identifying the sex of one of my chicks! So this is Bean he/she is just about 8 weeks old nicest chicken I had in awhile, so the coloration of the feathers leads me to think he's a he but he's so small and his legs are so thin, not like the other young roosters I...
What I do if my feed store doesn't have the right protein percentage is, I go out and buy some dry cat food and the highest protein Gamebirds food I can find and put both in the blender and turn it into powder. They will eat it right up. I also would recommend wood shavings, you would just need...
Ok I guess I should probably correct myself, I'm 99.99% sure they are females. When I got them with their original mates the males had different color heads. One with a blueish-black color and another with a dark brown color, again only on their heads the wrest of there body is all white. The...
Hello everyone I'm fairly new to pigeons I got 2 pairs last year in the spring. The man I got them from said they were already paired up and I saw that when I put them in the coop. They both made nests and a lot of kissing went on. I never have seen them mate but my dad said he's seen them...
Hi All!!! Haven't posted is a long while, but I got another question for anyone who cares to give input. So I have 4 chicks, all from eggs that were laid a few days before my favorite girl got snatched up by a fox. I was hoping to get at least one hen out of the 4. My question is that they all...
One of my Tumbler pairs. They have two babies and are in the living room due to the cold Temps outside. And surprisingly... No! they do not smell, but they do make a mess of their food. Which is ok with me because I just bring the chickens inside to clean it up.
Thanks everyone for the advice! But sadly I will never find out the gender because just about 20 minutes ago I was walking up the trail from my woods and I saw a hawk eating something in the opening and low and behold it was the little EE chick! :( I scared it away and it was fresh just about 5...
Hi everyone I got another question for ya today!
I'm just so stuck on sexing my lil EE chick and I was wondering if any of you could hell me out? And here he/she is...