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  1. Young MacDonald

    Letting my broody raise 20 meaties. Now I have a rooster raising 50 CX chicks~new batch!

    This may sound like a weird question, but what color was the fat? Supermarket chickens tend to have white fat. When we've eaten a heritage breed cockerel from our backyard, the fat was yellow (for any breed we've had). Is that due to the breed or the pasture raising? Do pasture-raised...
  2. Young MacDonald

    Letting my broody raise 20 meaties. Now I have a rooster raising 50 CX chicks~new batch!

    Great! I'm going to try it. We'll see how it goes. I hope it's as successful as your experience.
  3. Young MacDonald

    Letting my broody raise 20 meaties. Now I have a rooster raising 50 CX chicks~new batch!

    Hi. First, i want to say THANK YOU to Beekissed for starting this thread. I just read the entire thread and I really enjoyed the pictures you and Wolfwoman posted as well as the information. I just started keeping chickens last year for eggs. We bought chicks, kept the pullets for laying and...
  4. Young MacDonald

    introducing babies to broody hen

    I sucessfully used this method last week: http://wiki.omlet.co.uk/index.php/Introducing_day-old_chicks The link says to do it at night, but my Salmon Favorelle accepted the chicks during the middle of the day. From my experience, the three essential pieces are (1) make sure she has been broody...
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    Adding babies to supplement a broody's eggs?

    Many websites say do it in the evening because it makes her more likely to accept them, but my experience is that if she has been broody a while (at least 3 weeks) and really wants chicks, that's not necesssary. I did it last week and didn't even have to wait until evening. We did it mid-day...
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    Rats - crazy situation

    Not only will they eat your eggs, but I've had one kill a chick before, right from under the mom. I think the rat was after eggs, but this chick had already hatched. I ran out there because I heard screaming in the coop - I think it was the rat screaming from the mom fighting it - and found...
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    Trusting the mama, right thing to do?

    Trust her. Hens have been raising their chicks for thousands of years. Our first broody hatched her clutch on April 8th, and she handled it all. Whenever mom feels like theh babies are cold, she will sit down and call the babies to her to heat them up, even if they are in the yard. If your...
  8. Young MacDonald

    At what age do EE's typically lay?

    Mine started laying at 22 and 22.5 weeks. One has laid an egg everyday without fail, but they are smaller eggs. The other isn't as consistent. There will be many times when she'll lay an egg a day (usually medium), but then she goes an lays a double yolker and takes the next day off. The...
  9. Young MacDonald

    Well im back again 2 weeks later....FREE RANGE pics...now at 6 weeks

    pullet
  10. Young MacDonald

    Barred Rock laying age

    Thanks for the responses. My two Barred Rocks look so mature, but they aren't laying yet. They're 20 weeks - hopefully they'll start soon.
  11. Young MacDonald

    Barred Rock laying age

    Hi, I know that the average age that hens start to lay is 20 -24 weeks, but I also know that some breeds lay at earlier, some later, some right in the middle, etc. What has your experience been with Barred Rocks. Are they early layers? Thanks.
  12. Young MacDonald

    BO's

    By 6 weeks, there were major differences between my BO pullets and cockerel. So, by 16, I'm pretty sure the differences would be so pronounced that if you had a cockerel, you would know.
  13. Young MacDonald

    RIR - afraid I have a roo...

    I'm going to be a contrarian, I guess. I think that is a cockerel. It it is 3 1/2 months, it doesn't look like a pullet. The comb is much larger and his posture is more masculine. I have RIR that are just a week or so younger than yours (hatched in April) and my male RIR looks a lot more...
  14. Young MacDonald

    Do I have pullets or cockerels?

    The Barred Rock and EE look like pullets to me. I've never had a Dark Brahma so I don't feel qualified to comment on that one.
  15. Young MacDonald

    Pronunciation of "Faverolles"?

    Shoot, I've been saying fa-ver-els everything else on your rant, I pronounce as you suggest
  16. Young MacDonald

    What sex is my Rhode Island Red? *Got Pictures!!*

    I'm 100% sure that's a pullet. I have both male and female 11 week old RIR. At 9 weeks, the cockerels have red combs that are much larger than that.
  17. Young MacDonald

    Terrible noise

    Thank you. She is fine today. I think she was a little freaked out. But all's well now.
  18. Young MacDonald

    Penny laid an egg!

    update: She continued to make that noise coupled with a hiccup last night even after she went to roost. I was concerned that she had damaged something during "the birth," but by this morning, she was back to her normal self. Of all the things I had read about egg laying, I didn't know how...
  19. Young MacDonald

    Penny laid an egg!

    that nest looks like a birds nest, is it one of those ready-made nests or did she make it?? We built the nestboxes. Then to make it more attractive to her, we placed some branches around it. There is hay inside. She moved the hay to suit her. Here's another shot. Regarding blood, there...
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    Penny laid an egg!

    She will be 22 weeks tomorrow. Right now, my husband and I are very concerned. That gutteral sound is continuing and it's like she's in great pain. She's panting too, even though the temp is in the mid-70s. There was some blood on the egg. Could this kill her?
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