I have a yellow d'uccle oe cross that goes broody every year and she is a GREAT momma, BUT if she hatches out a black chick she refuses to take care of it and the last time she hatched 2 brown red babies she was trying to kick them out of the nest the day they hatched! Luckily I had another hen...
Hi I have 2 brood momma's right now, 1 has 6 chicks and the other has 4. I have always used straw in the nest box because as those babies start hatching momma will hold tight and usually those babies will stay under her for the first day or two, now when I put them in the brooder I only use...
Hi all! I lurve lurve lurve twilight but the books are 1000 times better than the movies! But i'm a huge bookworm so i always like the books better. Anywho heres my quiz thing:
Fave character - books- bella movies- alice
Quote- She held her breath and ran away (can anyone tell me who said that...
To me it looks just like my silver duckwing roo because the feathers to its neck are brownish with the white strips in the middle and if it was a silver duckwing hen she would have peach coming in on her brest feathers. I think if it was a BBRed its brest feathers would be red and its body would...
Day 20 and 2 of 4 are pipping i'm so excited i can hardly contain myself! We also have a bunny getting ready to give birth within the next two days and pigeons having a clutch by the end of the month! I'm surrounded by babies
Well we candled the eggs last night and i didnt see any movement! Does that mean my babies are dead? I'm real new to pigeon babies so any info will be a big help. One egg i could see a dark spot but no movement and the other egg had a dark spot with a vein that went in a perfect circle around...
Uh i was 22, almost 3 years ago and no i was never raised around chickens in fact i was raised in the city so everyone to my side of the family think i'm nuts but i love my fuzz butts
Congrats to all getting hatches! I have 4 eggs on day12 and i'm dying for them to hatch. I've got 3 black american game bantam eggs and 1 mixed breed. So far all are fertile and kicken like crazy when i candle them Lockdown is on St.Paddys day!
From what i've seen with the first baby their beaks are longer when They are born, like their head grows to the size to their beak, but i've never seen my pigeons feed because the baby froze to a 15° night. If these eggs make it i'll take pics of them feeding and let you know.
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Those Italain Owl guys look like my Figuritas here. Are they one in the same breed with different names or are mine Owls or what?
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Well i never updated but my pair of italian owls had laid 2 eggs and one froze so i took it and my pigeons sat on the other egg until it hatched! But unfortunatly my pigeons think They are chickens so They were in the chickens nest box and i didnt think anything about it but the squeaker slipped...