So I ended up with 5 baby chicks, I just left them in the coop with mama and they are doing great, she already had them out in the run by day 2, they just follow her around and she teaches them to scratch for food. The other chickens dont bother them unless the chicks get too close and then the...
looks like shes sitting on about 15-20, she kept swiping the others eggs and pulling them under her. I dont know if I can rig some kind of pen around the nest, I have nest boxes and of course she decided to make a nest in the corner of the coop. So far I have 2 chicks hatched but I cant get near...
So my Barred rock went broody and has been sitting on a huge clutch of eggs for 3 weeks now, I just went to check on her and one of the chicks are hatching. it's 1/2 way out of the shell. Now, I'm not sure what to do, they are in the coop with the other chickens, mama rock and 4 others, red...
one of my hens was acting really broody, she would lay and egg and freak out and start cackling at me when i went to take it, I had to push her off the next a few times and she wasnt happy about it and let me know. So I decided to try and let her hatch a few.
first mistake, i didnt mark a few...
Well now I'm just confused. she acts broody with her attitude but she keeps laying and then spends the day outside. Now I probably have 10 eggs sitting there in her nestbox and I'm not sure if I should leave them or just take them. I dont know how long fertilized eggs can sit in the nest before...
I have a Wyandotte hen who may or may not be broody, I'm just not sure.
a few days ago I went to collect eggs and she was sitting on one she just layed, so I kinda nudged her up off the nest and she was cackling at me like crazy. She slowly walked out of the coop looking back at me and...
I havent posted in awhile but I saw this story in our local news and thought you all may want to read it and make a comment.
http://www.news4jax.com/news/18763963/detail.html
heres the text
Family Fights To Keep Pet Chickens
Atlantic Beach Family To Speak To Commission About Keep Chickens As...
This is so stupid, 3yrs? and they finally notice the chickens and now they are suddenly a problem? gimmie a break. The council really needs to find something to do,like worry about actual criminals.
perhaps you should remind them that they are there to represent the citizens and they can be...
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Just got back into town tonight so i wanted to respond. The wire was just stapled to the side of the coop with lightweight construction staples, I hadnt given a thought to some dogs getting into my yard and jumping on the fencing. Like you said, i thought about keeping the chickens in...
yeh I know, feed, time...ughh..they were all about 5 months old, the roos just started to crow last week and I was expecting to have some fresh eggs soon.
he's lucky I didnt see those dogs yesterday or they would be fertilizing my garden
dont know if anyone mentioned this since I havent rad through the 25 pages of replies but...The Encyclopedia of Country Living, the book rocks..it has everything you can think of dealing with self sufficiency . it was a 30 yr compilation , the author passed away in 2005...
I was going to ask about fertilized eggs...I had, until yesterday two very cool roos, an aracuana and a crevacour and i didnt want to get rid of them but the neighbors dogs made that decision for me.
anyway, how long can you keep eggs when you have a roo around, i see posts about putting them...
...door neighbors gate and tried to get in her yard.
So I yell over to the neighbor and ask if she knows who owns the dogs and tell her about the lil *##@$% killing my chickens. She says the same dogs keep trying to get in her yard too and she thinks she knows who owns them, a guy a few houses...
i'm thinking about starting a hive also, I havent seen one single honey bee in my yard...good bee info site http://www.beemaster.com/site/honeybee/beehome.htm
yep, should have been a Pirate too..either that or in my late teens -20's during the late 60's ..I'd have been an outlaw biker for sure....todays OL's just arent the same
I'm good, just chillin..ok well roasting with this heat but otherwise same old, same old. I must have ADD cause I go though these 2 week things were I get really into something and then after about 2 weeks I get bored and I gotta learn somethin else and eventually it comes full circle.
I've...
all of em.
actually i dont hate them, i could just care less what they're doing and with who. Plus most that I've met at my job (airline) have been obnoxious and rude. the ones that I hadnt met personally but coworkers told me they really liked were . Dennis Leary, Selma Hyaek, Angela Basset...
I have an ameracuana roo, was supposed to be a hen, I ordered 2 hens but I guess the chick sexing cant be 100% on the money. Anyway, i'm getting rid of all my roos but i gotta keep him, he's just too much of a prettyboy to kill.
he looks alot like this only he is just about 16 weeks old so not...