I don't know if I'm the only one who faced this sort of kickback when they first told people they were going to get chickens but I remember my mom, dad, brothers, friends, friends of my brothers -just about everyone- were telling me "Oh, no way you can't take care of farm animals!" "You're not...
Alright so, at first when I got the eggs for my chicks, I moved my bedroom into the basement where I stuck the bator and everyday I'd stay down there almost all day for two reasons mostly,
1 I was trying to get away from the heat
2 I had separation anxiety lol
So the majority of my day was...
Alright, so my chicks are just shy of 7 weeks old, some of them are starting to make clucking noises in between chirps, but I've got two that make this awful..trilling, crowing noise,
Imagine a baby chick trying to sound like a rooster mixed with a crow, I will upload a video of it once I can...
i just finished talking to a few of my old friends from school, and we had such a good laugh I thought I'd share it with you all,
I was walking around outside without shoes on, and my friend Angela (who lives in the city) thought like it was so controversial. Thinking that was funny enough I...
How much of a joy is it to have chickens? I think I can finally answer that question :)
I have recently taken up sleeping in the basement on the couch, and I have newspaper and flattened garbage bags covering the entire floor because I have my chicks down there with me, they've been growing so...
Ok, so having read a few other posts I noticed that the topic of colouring or "dyeing" chicks is pretty controversial, before I continue I just want to establish a few things, first and foremost being that I have already hatched these chicks with full intent to care for and love them, and that I...
Ok, so today is due date and my little chickens have got my nerves all shot x_x
I haven't seen or heard so much as a wiggle or a peep, when I had candled them on day 17 they seemed to be dancing around like they couldn't wait to hatch but, like I said, it's time to hatch and I haven't seen any...
Alright, so I'm at day 20 of incubation, and I haven't seen any movement or pipping, heard anything either :s
Should I be concerned? I stuck them in lockdown a couple days ago and it's KILLING ME, i wanna candle them but I'm told I'm not allowed to open up the bator :(
Before I stuck them in...
i was just wondering about placing the eggs "small end down" in the egg turner, because the eggs i have seem relatively oval or round,
i made my best judgement call but some of the eggs are near impossible to guesstimate the shaping of, is there any other way i can tell which end it is that...