I have a showgirl rooster. He has 1 showgirl hen and 3 amberlink hens. He also has a d'uccle bantam hen. She is the oddball. They are all laying. They all get along really good, but the rooster doesn't seem to want to "service" the d'uccle. Not sure if it's because she is smaller or a different...
I have 2 phoneix bantam hens and a roo. One of my hens went broody....I let her keep 5 eggs that I marked and continued to take the others away. Well a few days ago I noticed the other hen began sitting and sleeping in the box with her. Last night a baby hatched. Now I'm noticing the amazing...
Last month we got 8 hatched out of 13 eggs. This time I did 20 eggs....all polish and bantam phoenix. I have 16 hatched so far and a couple more I can see moving around. Yesterday I took most of them out of the bator into the brooder box. I left 6 behind to finish drying. This morning they are...
Hi all! I have 20 eggs due to hatch tomorrow!!!! Several polish eggs and some bantam phoenix. I have a question!! I would love to hatch some bantam polish eggs....does any one know where a good place to buy is or who might have them??? Thanks!!!
My brother gave this lil' hen to my daughter because his large hens picked on her. I have 3 bantam phoenix's so I put her with them. She is full grown and is much smaller than the others. She looks like a dove.lol any idea what she is? lays very small white eggs.
First time hatching babies!!! We got 8 out of 13 eggs. Not too bad I'm thinking! So fun, can't wait to do it again! Even better they hatched Sat. morning when my kids were home!~
3 polish
2 australorp/polish mix
2 RIR/polish mix
1 bantam phoenix
Just wondering this....my kids want to incubate some eggs. My rooster is a black polish with a black top hat. (some white feathers) I have 2 black austrolorp hens, a RIR, a gold laced polish, and Just got 3 amberlinks. What would be the best to incubate. What would these mixes turn out to be...
I have a flock of 9....they are about a year old. I got them when they were about 6 wks old. We decided to expand our flock and went to the local feed store and bought 8 babies...they said maybe 2-3 days old. I've had them about a week and can already tell the difference in them even though...
I had several chickens die suddenly about 6 months ago. All with the same symptoms. Lethargic, not walking or stumbling, death. All of my others have been fine, til lately. I have a 1 yr old hen that started acting lethargic. I separated her immediately not knowing again what was wrong. She...
I posted earlier about a sick chicken...yes shes still sick but hanging in there for now. Local feed store said to get Tylan 50 antibiotic and inject in breasts of chickens...not just the sick one but all. Well...gave all chickens 1cc injection Tylan...about 10 minutes later they all act...
I have a flock of 9...all different breeds...a couple days ago one of my girls started acting a little lethargic. Was still eating and drinking and running around with the others. She roosted last night, but this morning she doesn't want to move. Not eating...she will take a drink of water...
I don't know what's happening!! My chickens have all been healthy til now. A few months ago noticed one of my rir girls acting lethargic. She got really bad...gave her some vitamins/electrolytes ...she pulled threw although she hasn't laid an egg in a couple months and still doesn't act...
I have 3 bantam hens and a roo. 2 of my hens have been sharing 2 eggs (sitting) Only 1 hatched. TINY little healthy black baby. They seem to both play the momma role. Very cute...they both sleep with it ...feed it etc. I do not have them separated from the other hen and roo. It is now 3 days...
I have 2 bantam hens and a roo. One of my hens went broody...she is sitting on 2 eggs. This is day 19. My other hen at first would go in the box with her and lay her eggs there. I would take them...marked the 2 she was sitting on. Anyway about a week ago the "other" hen stopped laying and has...
Pretty new with chickens. I have a bantam that has gone broody. I promised my kids I would let some chicks hatch (if possible) but not sure this is the right time of year. It will be getting cold soon..(well I live in GA..the weather is always unpredictable lol) She has been sitting on 2 eggs...
I posted a while back that my bantam roo lost his voice. Well it has been "gone" for a couple months now. Very hoarse sounding but other than that he acts fine. No sickness...eats and drinks fine. Well today he somehow jumped coops and started a fight with another roo. I was outside and heard...
I have 2 bantam phoenix hens and 1 rooster about 2 yrs old. They have always been together and get along great. Yesterday someone gave me a (maybe 1 yr old) bantam hen. Of coarse they are not going to get along at first...but she screams horribly if the rooster even gets near her which then...
Thought I would share this story as I've never seen a chicken act this way. She is a 6 month old Polish hen....every time my daughter or I approach the pen....she will run to us dodging the other chickens like it's a game. If we move to the other side she will do the same thing...or even fly...
New to the whole chicken thing....Got our first egg from a RIR hen about 5 days ago. We didn't know who layed it (10 hens and it was on the ground) The next day we figured out who it was...actually watched her lay in the laying box. She seemed a little confused as to what to do with it...kept...
New to the whole chicken thing....Got our first egg from a RIR hen about 5 days ago. We didn't know who layed it (10 hens and it was on the ground) The next day we figured out who it was...actually watched her lay in the laying box. She seemed a little confused as to what to do with it...kept...