I have a baby duck and baby chick. I bought medicated chick feed at feed store. Only kind they had- no duck starter. Medicated chick food is supposedly very dangerous for ducks. Could the chick eat duck starter??? It would be very hard to separate them to eat as they are both with a momma hen.
We let my broody hen sit on bantam chicken and duck eggs on June 8.
It has definitely been 21 days but no chickens have pipped; however, my lone duck egg has pipped yesterday around 10 pm. Now the the pips outer shell is gone but the membrane is still there since the around 1 this afternoon...
I hope it is alright I put a duck on this forum.
I set my broody hen on chicken and duck eggs on June 8. It is now the 23rd day.
It has definitely been 21 days but no chickens have pipped; however, my lone duck egg has pipped yesterday around 10 pm. He looks like the pip has expanded to a...
Ok I have a hen sitting on 20 day old eggs.
Her water leaked and soaked her nest. Luckily, I caught it early and the eggs were not very cold. So, I redid her nest and put her back on it. So, I checked under her on eggs to make sure she wasn't own them...... then I felt something silmy. And a...
Our hen went broody so we ordered some eggs. I read somewhere that eggs under a hen hatch in 20 days.
It is day nineteen.
I've set up a chick station for when they hatch. (we've raised chicks before but never hatched any)
We are gonna raise the chicks because we want the hen to keep sitting...
In my chickens I am looking for:
-egg laying
-friendliness
-brains. (is there a breed of chicken that is a little more inteligent)
I'm thinking about a black australorp, a partridge rock, a wyandotte and perhaps a leghorn, easter eggers, brahma, dominique, buff orpington.
Are there any that...
My easter egger has been sitting on nest since 7ish last night when I went to lock them up. This morning, too, is sitting.
she is missing no feathers and is breathing heavier than usual/
What should I do?
Earlier my dog got my chicken.
The skin around her wing is pulled off.
There are no puncture wounds.
She can still walk and swallow.
I am making sure she is getting water so she wouldn't be dehydrated.
Her eyes are still open and blinking. However, when you move her she remains in the position...
My roo is rhode island red bantam.
I went out to let them out of their run so they could free range and Spike was squeaking. (He sounded like he was sobbing
What is wrong???
I just realized I had an easter egger chicken! I AM SOOO EXCITED! I can't wait until she lays an egg!
Well, anyways, I want to learn and hear all about them.
My hens are about 5 mo. old and have never laided. One is a red sex-link, another is a black sex-link ( i think), and the other is goldy and has a beard.
Does anyone know why they are not laying?
At first my chickens flew over an 8 foot fence and was running around the front yard. Today, I had there wings clipped.
There are 3 of them and tonight when I was putting them in the pen, one of them was running scared because of she was alone. So, we started looking for them and 1 them was on...