Great information. We have several pure breeds from a hatchery and one home grown one that just started laying dark olive green eggs. Now we have a pretty good idea who the parents are. Not 100% sure though because if we are right on who her parents are, she is a tad smaller than one would expect.
This is a real surprise to me, trapping illegal in Alberta. We had a fox attach last year (and again this year yesterday) and we called fish and wildlife to verify what predator was involved. Fish and wildlife told us it was a fox and said out racoon trap would be fine, but also loaned us a 2nd...
I was wondering about this too. I have 2 hens, each with chicks the same age (3 days old now) They were put into the same area. We have two places in the same coop we could put them in but put them together. It was more enclosed so the other hens could look but not touch easily. The hens...