Back story. We had a house fire in October. A family member took 15 hens and a rooster. We were on the other side of the county from them. They were kept in a coop, a barn loft, no outside access. The family member was elderly and was feeding them ground corn only and I don't think they were...
so since it seems like our community has a knowledge base for everything i need some help!!! i have crawdads digging around my spillway of my pond. in fact they had started the pond to drain. i have tamped their holes and tried to weed all the rocks and things out to deter them from being in...
I wasn't sure where to post this but I had to share. My middle daughter who is three loved the snow and all she wanted to do was make a "Snow Chicken" I'm not really that crafty but I tried my best and this is what I came up with (with a lot of help from my big helper)!!
Something, guessing a raccoon, attacked one of my hens the other night. It ripped the skin off of her neck in a few places and all over her back. Suprisingly she is still alive. Rehabilitating in a trough in our basement. Here lies the problem, my wife has begun to baby her. to the point of...
ok so i have a EE white with red patches to bred my black sex links. i know that a black sex link is a BR over a RIR. my question is there any way that any of the offspring that may be barred could ever be a pullett? still learning about the different dominant coloring patterns and which ones...
has anyone ever heard of chickens eating milkweed? there was some growing in my chicken run and the chickens have stripped the plants as high as they can reach. none seem to be sick or acting oddly. i just had never heard of anything but monarch catepillars eating milkweed.
So where to begin? Three days ago I noticed 3 of my 7 week olds chicks were missing and one Speckled Sussex hen. I must say I didn't think much about it. My hen had been acting broody for days and my chickens free range, so I suspected she had a nice little nest hidden some where, and with...
so I just set my second clutch of eggs in the incubator on April 1. I've already hatched 22 Chicks this year to help replenish my flock as my current 20 hens just turned a year old and i want a steady egg production. but it gets better. yesterday i went to the feed store and they had left...
i'm starting my set batch of eggs on April first! any one want to hatch with me? i'll be setting 38 eggs, barnyard mixes of easter eggers, gold laced wyandottes, columbians, speckled sussex, and golden comets. had a pretty good success rate with my last hatch. 22/38. i didn't think that was...
QUESTION!!!! Will the chicken moving around rolling the eggs hurt the ones that haven't hatched. This chick is a power house and I would rather leave it in until dry and not open the incubator and screw with the humidity in there. Any suggestions??
so my incubation project is going pretty good as far as i can tell. i"ve candled my eggs and everything looked good. last night i candled the eggs and it was much harder to see any movement, is this right? also a quick question. i started my eggs late night on february 25 so day one is...
My daughter and I have been incubating eggs just to see what would happen . last night we candled eggs and were so happy to see almost every egg had a viable chick in them. Then we came to an egg that is stuck in the turner. It is no bigger than any of the other eggs so I am not sure why it...
I have brown egg laying hens. i have an aracauna rooster. what is the probability that pullets from this cross will lay colored eggs? further more if you set a colored egg will the pullet from that lay the same color egg? is this all blue eyes, green eyes, brown eyes genetics or is there is a...
i set eggs on 2/26/12. last night i tried to candle some of them. i have dark shelled eggs so i knew i probably wouldn't see much but i am very discouraged. i have looked on the internet and haven't seen any eggs that look like mine did. they are in an egg turner so i candled from the...