this started a week or so ago. they all stopped laying in the nesting boxes...... i found 4 random eggs throughout the yard and since then haven't found anymore. i have 8 hens that i KNOW are laying. i just can't figure out WHERE! it's a bit frustrating. part of me thinks that i have a...
momma hen hatched out two chicks from eggs i bought. i am 99.9% sure that one is a speckled sussex. the other, i haven't a clue. it came from a light green egg ( i think) and it is SOLID black. the whole chick is black, black beak, and black legs and feet........ i have never seen a solid...
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i need to change my run into an enclosed run, and i will probably end up having to do it alone.......
do i need to start from the beginning? or can i just modify using the current posts, etc?
all advice is appreciated! thank you!!!
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i know i lost several to hawks, caught them in the act. i know ONE roosters was lost to an opossum. but, i've lost many more and sometimes several at one time and there is NO SIGN of the bird, or the predator!! i've been left a handful of feathers, and that's about it!
these attacks are...
i have eggs under a broody silkie. today should be hatch day, however i'm not expecting them to 100% hatch. it's been cold, she stayed off of them one night because she sat on someone else's eggs, etc. so, my question is, how many extra days should i wait? i was thinking three. i have chicks...
i THINK this particular bird is a cockeral. 'he' was on one side of the fence, starring down a silkie on the other side of the fence.
all of the sudden, the feathers around 'his' neck stood up in a circle! just like the dilophosaurs ( the one who gets fan like scales around his neck and then...
hi! i have two silkie hens that i have been trying to get to go broody for a couple weeks. one is completely disinterested, and the other i think is finally there. she is, however, sitting on infertile eggs. i have a dozen fertile silkie eggs in an incubator. one is due to hatch today and two...