We have 6 barn cats, but we discourage them from coming around the chicken coop because there are many times of the year we have babies and the last thing we want is them eating he baby chicks. Otherwise, when the big chickens are free ranging they all co-exist just fine. The cats love the...
I know this post is old, but wanted to go ahead and make a comment in case anyone needs some advice still. We too have been losing eggs, I often find broken shells and remnants of shells. I thought for sure it was a snake, so I did some studies on how to trap snakes and was told to use a...
Our little Cochin went broody so we let her lay on some eggs. Not sure if the daddy is a bantam lavender amercauna or a lemon cuckoo orphington, either way they are just adorable! We thought we had about two more weeks but surprise the first chick hatched overnight and surprised us on Sunday...
Hi everyone! I was told that our little goslings are an African Grey and a Chinese. Hoping you all out there can confirm or deny this for me. Either way we love them! They are so adorable and so fun. Interesting to watch their soft little baby fluff turn into feathers.
Our hens are finally starting to lay again! Since Fall we have only had about one or two eggs every few days. Our Olive Egger and Bantam Cochin laid their first eggs this week! Now if only our Polish, our Easter Eggers and Americaunas will start laying again. They have not laid an egg since...
If you have roosters and hens together what are you feeding? Right now I am feeding my flock "Nutrena All Flock" because we have some young pullets and some laying age. Just found out one hen is actually a roo. Had planned to switch them all to layer feed in the spring but found out roos can't...
Cracked open one of our eggs this morning and found this. Ewww...
Is it a fertilized egg? We have only just discovered that one of our bantams is a roo, but don't think is old enough or big enough to breed with our big girls....at least yet.
Thoughts?
wow, didn't think they would pick an egg clean, thought for sure I would find something showing they had eaten it. But I am still guessing it was someone stealing the eggs. Once I put that sign up we have been getting eggs again. Oh and I also added two feet to our 4 ft fence and no one has...
I have only one other bantam and that is a cochin, the rest of my chickens are big chickens like Orpingtons, Easter Eggers, Rhode Island Reds and Polish. Since he is so tiny will he breed with these big girls?
We have the sweetest Bantam Lavendar Ameraucana! Now the question is, is it a "he" or a "she". Always thought it was a Pullet but now beginning to think we have a little Roo. I swear sometimes "she" is trying to crow and now I see her tail feathers are getting longer, like a roosters tail...
This past weekend we found a nest of 15 eggs that our Rhode Island Red was laying. She was flying over the yard fence and laying the eggs behind a pallet in the hay barn. Sneaky girl! I messed up her nest and put a brick where she was laying and that discouraged her from laying there, but she...
Okay I will give them some cat food each day and see if that helps and I am will get some sunflower seeds to scatter around as well. Right now the whole flock is on Flock Raiser with 20% protein. I am limiting the number of "treats" that they get as I had heard that they need to get a lot of...