and there are still three eggs yet to hatch. should i move them into their brooder and hope for the best with the other eggs? only one of them shows any sign of hatching.
i forgot what day i put my eggs in the incubator:(
i candled them just now and they are completely dark so i have put them under lockdown... does anyone have any advice to help this run smoothly? i hope this doesnt turn into a disaster:(
here's my mutt trash-piggy
this is one of the henriettas(?) and carl(silkie) who are her biological parents
and this is the hen that raised her, munchkin the banty cochin
i was wondering if my hens were stressed because i have only been getting 2-3 eggs a day out of 11 hens. there are a few smart rats in the barn that i cant seem to kill with traps so i thought maybe they were pestering the chickens and stressing them out maybe? they had heat lamps all winter and...
today i shot and killed huge fat rat with a pellet rifle my dad gave me from when he was a little kid.
i never shot anything before so i feel pretty cool. i didn't want to do it but that rat had been digging up my coop, eating all the feed and he was always looking out his holes at me. snap...
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I agree, she is absolutely beautiful! What color was she as a chick?
I can't remember her coloring as a tiny chick, but she was probably a very light one - either yellow or greyish?. She came in the mail with 24 other EEs I bought. I kept the more unique colored chicks and sold the...