Chickens are personally my favorite to own, I'm not very experienced with ducks but I am with chickens and geese. I'd recommend the breeds, Welsummer (they lay beautiful dark brown eggs and are very sweet and cute), Black Sex Links (they are easy to sex at a young age and are very sweet in...
While it's still young, you can try to straighten it out but once it gets older it won't work. Same thing happened with my baby chick except with it's toe. As it ages it should straighten out. If it doesn't, don't worry. It shouldn't slow it down or keep it from doing anything. If you notice it...
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We've been incubating chicken and geese eggs (Toulouse/Chinese) and had thought our geese eggs wouldn't hatch as they'd gone beyond 35 days...but we left them in the incubator just in case...we were caught totally off guard finding a newly hatched gosling this a.m.!
We'd studied all...
This is my first time hatching chicks on my own. This is my 3rd bath of chicks that I've raised but this is the first I've hatched myself. Only 2 have hatched so far but the older one is pecking at the other. One is 1 day old and the other is 2 days old. The older one keeps pecking near the...
Hi everyone, about 2 months ago I bought 8 chicks from a farm center (my second batch) 4 are Sicilian Buttercups but the other 4 I just can't remember the name of. They were a gold-ish color when they were young but now they're getting pretty dark brown. I remember that they are a type of...
Hi everyone, I have 3 geese, the girl, Lucy, is a Tolouse and the boys, Lewis and Luke, are Chinese Swan Geese. My brother went outside and noticed that there was an egg by their pool. Just laying in the dirt. I had noticed that she was over there awhile when the boys were not but didn't think...
Her origional owner said shes about a year old and that she raised her by hand. I let her roam with my other geese and let them swim in the pond and they get along great and have already mated. She seems a little more comfortable knowing shes not stuck in a little fenced in area like we had her...
Hi okay so i have two male Chinese Swan Geese and we decided to get them a female. Last night we got a female Toulouse. On the car ride home she was very nice and everything. We introduced her to the two males this morning and instantely turned into a little devil goose. Hissing at all humans...
Hello, okay so my 6 month old rooster, Rocco is a little devil, but now I realize that it is getting pretty bizaare, He will literally bark like a dog, screams like a girl when getting picked up, and this one is weird, when he seems like he is in a bad mood his eyes will get really big. And he...
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Yesterday one of our hens laid a largish egg that had a normal yolk plus something else that looked and felt like a rubbery, slippery marble. The marblish "yolk" appeared to be off-white and was covered with a thick layer of foggy, whiter, egg white...it looked like partially cooked egg...
I have two cockerels and 5 hens, and they are fine.. I keep them separate at night, and I am with them all day and there is no over-mating, maybe I am just lucky.. But you should be fine. Just can you keep the cockerels maybe in a separate coop? It will be "safer" for the hens. C:
Thank you! I have four other Black sex links and get about 2-3 eggs from them a day, they just started laying about three weeks ago. Thank you so very much.