One was due on
February 2nd and hatched on February 4th
and the other on February 4th and hatched on the 3rd
Without further ado...allow me to introduce my first chicks
I went to check on my girls and to my surprise one egg has a pip or open hole in the shell. Then momma went ahead and turned it on it's side...I can hear the little one making some noise in there.
I learned from many posts in here to just leave them alone, but I'm afraid the hen might turn it...
Before silkies, pheasants and doves...there was Barbie and Fashion Royalty. Been collecting dolls for well over 10 years, but still haven't met another doll collector!
I let one of my girls sit in two eggs. She has been doing a great job for 5 days, today the other hens decided to lay their egg in the same nest, well momma grab them and happily kept them warm, when I did my morming collecting, I accidentally took one of her eggs, which I had marked with the...
I few days ago while I was in the garden I saw a red bug...12 years living in this house and this is the first time I seen something like it. I thought "Oh a tiny red spider" killed it and went on with my biz. Today, while cleaning my coops, first time ever, I see another tiny red spider running...
I have two beautiful roosters...unique in their own way, each one brings to the flock what the other lacks off. Unfortunately, it has come down to who is the alpha and who is not...The Buff Silkie is older but sweet as honey, gentle with the hens...the AOV is younger. In recent weeks he has...
This little chick keeps confusing me....one day it behaves like any other hen....
Next day it is hanging with my three other roosters and obviously in the pecking order it is the last.
Can you help me?
Greetings from Sunny So. Cal!
My name is Mauro and at my 33 years of age, never once it crossed my mind that one day I was going to have chickens as pets but not just pets, I never thought they would become my babies, my sweet, fluffly and affectionate babies.
How the silkies came into my life...