Well I definitely have a mean mama. I was out with them and she had gotten pushed off her nest so she was in the box with a hen and chicks, eventually the chicks came over to her and she was not pleased :barnie so I’m going to use her as an incubator for the last few eggs and then I’m gonna...
Checked this morning and so far have 7 good looking chicks under two mamas. Last night I found a dead one, the first egg to hatch with this hen, it did have some damage but I’m not sure if it was just birth defeat or the hen. Never the less I took her other pipping egg away and gave her some the...
Hatch day for my mamas today. They’ve been sharing 14 eggs and so far we have 5 fully hatched and several more on their ways. Here’s the first baby that I’m already madly in love with :love
Facebook too (if you have it) search for pages like Oklahoma chicken swap or something along those lines. We have one here in my part of Kansas that’s quite active. Good luck
I’m sure they’ll be fine. I had two girls sharing 14 eggs this month and then 3rd went broody this week. Today is apparently hatching day and I’ve been able to move pipping and zipping eggs to each mama so they all have babies :love
Hello fellow chickaholics :frow
I had just have barnyard mixes, nothing exciting. Two of my girls went broody together a few weeks ago. Between them they have 14 eggs. I haven’t candled so we’ll see what happens!
Her crop is always big (very big) in the evenings. I’ll pay more attention in the morning and update.
Thanks for the info on vitamins to try, will start that ASAP.
This chick is a month old, roughly 1 to 1 1/2 weeks ago I noticed she was unbalanced and getting ran over in the brooder with the hen and other chicks. I’ve had her inside since then. She looks nothing like the other chicks, she still has a lot of downy feathers and seems “puffed up”. She...