Hello everyone! Spring is coming up! Which potentially means: chicks! My red Cochin bantam is almost a year old and really wants to lay on some eggs, but I have lots to choose from I think? Ellie (the red Cochin bantam) has been wanting to be a mom since November, but unfortunately the egg...
Is there a chance the eggs I have in the fridge stand a chance? They have been in there for a month or more. Usually my parents eat them but I guess they haven’t eaten these yet.
My parents first chicken died being broody because she wasn’t getting up to get food or anything so Once a day I would pick her up and place her on the ground so she could stretch her legs and get some water (I gave her a food bowl). Once I picked her up and she brought the egg with her and it...
Thank you! I unfortunately can’t take my snakes out for awhile since they live in my room, as does one of my chickens right now (they love to eat and get into “feeding mode” easily and might get a little excited with my hands) but soon enough!
I haven’t candled it to often. Did it twice today for the sake of a picture. But I won’t candle it again until January. How will she know though? She hasn’t done this before and I raised her as a chick without any other chickens nearby (unless you count the other 3 I was raising with her.). Is...
Hello everyone! This is pretty much my first post so I’m sorry if it’s a little messy. I have a young flock of 7, it is my first time raising a flock to egg laying age. My last flock was composed of 4 roosters and 3 hens (yikes!) and when we got rid of the 2 mean roosters the hawks and foxes...
Thanks! I’m using apple and I’m on the app. A year or two ago when I had my first chick, (my school incubated around 15 eggs and mine was the only one to hatch, thus my new obsession.) but my teacher told me to feed the chick medicated chick feed, and eventually my chick got really sick. I...