I have a two week old baby polish and it had tried up poo opn its bottom and seems kinda weak. It can't keep up with it's siblings outside always lingers behind - so I decided to bring it inside and soaked it's bottom in warm water. The poo came off it's bottom but it doesn't seem very alert -...
I have Silver laced and white polish. I enjoy watching my Polish in the evenings. Recently my Female Polish her name is Edwina hatched out six baby chicks and she is an awsome mother.
I am new to the whole chicken thing, but really excited. My kids and I picked out some super cute chicks from TSC. I have a total of 30 chickens and 5 Rouen Ducks. One girl duck and 5 boys/.
The people at TSC were not able to tell me what kind of breeds I have but I’m sure that I have after...
My hen hatched 3 out of 12 eggs a couple of days ago - dos that mean the rest of the eggs are bad? should I take the eggs away from her and throw them away?
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My hen got off her clutch after three of her babies hatched. I guess the babies dropped to the floor from the nesting box and she left her eggs. I don't know for how long she was off the eggs, but I hadthree chicks on the ground and 9 eggs in the nesting box. I took the nine eggs out of...
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congratulations!! which one was broody, and what kind of chicks?
I had almost given up on getting a broodie hen - ans was about to throw out a dozen eggs that following weekend - when all the sudden I noticed my Black Astralorp going broodie on everybodys eggs. I put all the eggs...
I came home today and found three baby chicks on the coop floor in a little tub. She left the other 9 eggs in the nesting box and stayed with the chicks. When I got home the eggs in the nesting box were already cold but I went ahead and put them on the ground with her and she sat on them? not...
I got my first home grown three babies today - Eggs were layed September 30th and Oct. 1st - then they hatched on November 2nd chicken got broodie around the 15th of October.
Eggs were 15-16 days old before hen decided to sit on them. She sat on the eggs for about 18 days, maybe longer I just...