this is probably a weird post, but I'm sure if people have been on BYC and facebook for the last few years they have seen Mumble the blind chicken. I'm almost positive I discovered her posted on this forum but I don't know.
Anyway, her FB page went completely silent in 2021 and no one knows...
Hey all. I'm not sure which forum to put this in so please move it if it has a better place.
Many of you probably don't remember me but I started raising chickens a few years back, but I had to sell them for a bunch of reasons and I miss them very very much.
I still remember all of their names...
RIP Buttons, Apr 1, 1997 - Jun 14 2013.
She passed away tragically when I accidentally run over her. She was deaf, I didn't see her and she didn't hear me.
Just buried her underneath our willow tree.
I feel so horrible for what happened and I would take it back if I could.
Rest well, my...
When and how do I introduce baby chicks to the coop? My hen was sitting on eggs, they started hatching 3 weeks ago. So the babies are now about 3 weeks old. They are already getting their feathers in. I'm still using a heat lamp on them at night because they still shiver without it. Anyway how...
My hen was sitting on 20 fertile eggs. Today is day 27. One chick hatched today, there were still 5 eggs. I shook them, they were sloshy.
So.. I was curious. I broke one. it had a fully formed chick in it encased in thick, smelly, goopy blood. The chick was dead.
What would have caused that...
Is it normal for the mother hen to peck her chicks to death? Found 2 chicks bloodied and dead, caught the hen in the act of biting/pecking a 3rd chick. It has sustained injuries to its head and neck, I don't think they are life threatening but I immediately took all the chicks away from the...
so it's possible thos eggs were there before I went out of town and I just didn't notice them?
I do have 3 broody hens but only one of them is actually sitting on eggs, the other 2 are just sitting on empty nests