looking for spitzhauben and brabanters. had a nice flock of spitzhauben coming up until they got wiped out except for one lone hen by some foxes. anyway let me know if anyone has any spitzhauben or brabanters, any age. will travel
ive raised marans for a while, and in february i acquired a group of chicks of a new blood line. several blacks, a few blues. all the black hens have good coloring on their necks. the blue hens have very very few if any copper red coloring on their neck. they're all the same age and supposedly...
fox are tough to catch. last week a fox(s) took 12, 3 month old birds from one of my pens at night. they dug two holes beneath the fencing and carried them off whole. this is the first fox attack in 10 years. like was said above, they are not creatures of habit and are very smart. im really...
so todays my birthday, and i woke up to a great suprise! went outside and found that last night a fox(s) came through and took 12, 3 month old chickens out of one of my pens. they left me 14 in that pen. ate all my spitzhaubens and a bunch of marans. im certain it were fox because of the looks...
ok. so are you going to buy the chicks? if so you must usually raise them in a brooder separate from all the rest of your chickens. typically(there are cases where they will) a hen wont accept chicks that she did not sit on and hatch out herself. just because there are chicks hanging around...
got home from work yesterday and one of my broody hens was in the yard just sittin there. my wife thought she got run off the nest, but when she picked her up to help her back onto her nest, bout 3 chicks fell out from under its wings. spring has sprung!