We have chicks! Two broody hens worked on this hatch and one eventually gave up and let Lucy (who is higher in the pecking order) brood the eggs. Friday Lucy hatched 5 perfect little chickies! I took a little video clip to show you the new babies. Only 3 had hatched at the point I took the...
Oh I hope someone replies to your post, because I'm in the same situation. I have a BLRW who went broody a month ago, so a couple days ago I finally gave her some fertile eggs to hatch. And now my Barred Rock has been in the same box brooding the same eggs! I booted her out once and she went...
Hello my chicken guru's, sorry about the graphic pics but I don't know how to describe what I'm seeing and pictures tell more than I could anyway.
Last night I found my alpha (RIR) hen with a prolapse.
I've never dealt with this before so I did what I thought was logical. I soaked her in...
I had the very same situation. Adopted what I thought were 2 BLRW pullets and one turned out to be a Roo. Here's what I noticed. At a few months old the Roo had much thicker leg bones than the hen and was much larger. At the time I wondered if someone had crossed a cornish to get those kind...
I'm in a similar situation. 8 hens... all just over 1 year old. All regular layers, usually 4 to 5 eggs a day. Then a couple weeks ago it was down to 3 or 4 a day. This week was 1 to 2 a day. And the last 2 days, NO eggs.
They are fed organic feed, recieve a treat each day (either dried...
Here's an example of how chicken math works....
We have 8 laying hens and this spring I thought I'd like to add 4 chicks to make an even dozen. My husband approved. He came home and checked out the new chicks and said, "uh... honey? did you forget how to count to 4?" I said, "no, I got 4"...
Oh I LOVE when they lay their first egg!
My LuLu made such a ruckus, my hubby and ran out to make sure there wasn't a predator attacking them and there was LuLu outside her coop yelling to the word about what had just come out her back side. I tried to put her back in her coop and she...
My chickens have food in their feeder all day, everyday. If they're hungry they eat. It doesn't stop them from tripping all over themselves trying to be first to the gate when I come home and yeah, they act like they're starving, and I fool myself that they just love me so much, but in...