Recent content by tgerl

Hi all, I apologize in advance if this question has been answered or common knowledge among Easter egger enthusiasts I am new to EE's... I excitedly bought 4chicks last year at a sale.. Supposed to be 3 hens and roo.. Needless to say I got taken.. Uhem.. And ended up with 4 Roos... What I want...

I had great success with my Orpington... I was able to put a newly incubated chick under her even though there was a week difference between hers that she hatched out and that one. No pecking at all and just took to the new one like it was hers. The other chicks accepted it as well...

I have a hen that just hatched out 3 checks on her own(4 days old). I have incubator eggs due to hatch tomorrow... Could I put the chicks from the incubator under her? Will she accept them?

Yup that is very sad...

Good luck with your incubation and hatch!:-) I too collected eggs from my chickens over 6 days( kept them in a dry area about 10 degrees Celsius). After 6 days I hurriedly put my 10 eggs into the clean, used incubator and turned it on( my first mistake;-)). Then after 2 days of high...

Hi there! I am new to BYC and fairly new to chicken keeping! We got six one year old Isa Browns last summer and after only losing one along the way our existing five have made it through our brutal Canadian winters and are doing quite nicely(in a bit of a molt right now I think) Now I want to...