I have a Chicken math problem.
A wannabe farmer has 30 silkie chicks all between 2 and 8 weeks old.
(Insert cross the road joke here....Make it a good one.)
What are the odds one or two will be broody next spring-ish?
(Im under the impression that they start laying around 6 months and spring...
Tired, Bruised, Cut up, and doing it again tomorrow... Still having fun.
Why?
Tomorrow should be the first day with a closed run in awhile.
The pig and the new goat teamed up on the run fence and keeping it chicken proof was.... spiritually taxing 0_o
Behind the...
Im not really sure how to describe what i just saw.... a flock of chickens using the force?... maybe telepathy?.... 0_o
So there it is... a dirt covered egg in the run... just there.. so i do the normal thing, I slide down the pole the the chicken cave..
Now donning my tights i jump on the...
Someone laid an egg just a bit bigger than a quarter... one that small is a common anomaly (not something to be concerned over) and not viable.... correct?
It probably matters so i should add that the egg is from a chicken not one of the Goats... Still waiting for them to start laying...
i found something im good at..
Unfortunately its killing chicks.
,0_o
I had some temp problems the last couple days.
Also i think i put a few in a day early so i have 10 hatching 3 died hatching one had unabsorbed yolk so i tried to keep it still but it got out of the warm wet sock and...
So a chick has a thing....
Uhhh.. like a placenta hanging from the back?
I saw some unabsorbed yoke online but.... placenta looking, flat, dangely meat is what im seeing here... no yellow color or anything.. chick seems fine....tired but fine.
Advice? 0_o
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I rebuilt the window roost into a 3 story Redneck chicken mansion.
a coop underneath for pullets and cockerels a brooder on top and a Roost For my first chick (still surviving... hawk got the other).
I think its a male and i made sure he has some room to bring the ladies home. (or her to pick a...