Hi! I have a broody hen and am considering getting her a couple guinea eggs to sit on. Does anyone know if the hen will still raise this as her own and keep them form running off?
My barred rock did this to me the last two nights, finally after finding at the coup in the morning, decided to watch to see where she was going. She had been roosting in a nearby tree!
Thanks so much, I will have to look seabrights up. I with you and thinking the two with waddles and the one with a large comb are roosters, and the little bearded one is a hen. I hope they all get along, they are as cute as can be. They are 2 months old. I picked them up from a kid from the...
okay, these are 4 bantam duclle they are two months old. I am totally confused by two of them having waddles? I haven't seen this in the rooster bantams. I am thinking they are a mixed breed, but then how do I sex them? One of the chicks without waddle, has a huge crown? I just don't know what...
update! My skipper was home this morning. Laying outside the chicken run, waiting for me to let the other ladies out. Man, I snatched her up and really loved on her. What a blessing. We lost our duccle bantam last Saturday, so I thought she was taken by the same predator. I still don't know...
Lost one of two of my barred rocks tonight. She didn't make it back home :-( her sis is sleeping out in the run crying. Won't go in the roost with the others. I am heartbroken.
I just love watching my chicks get into stuff, we had a ton of sticktites this year, the chicks went crazy for them. How do you guys get those cute emoticons?