Hey Folks, been a while. Long hard winter here in the hollow.
My silly bantam hens, 4 of em, started hoarding eggs and went broody on me.
Never in my wildest dreams did I think they'd actually hatch! I thot this would be a good first time dry run.
Well I brought my one hen in the house with...
I bought a broody hen w/chicks this past spring.
She recently went very broody so I slipped half the guinea eggs under her.
Low and behold 2 in the incubator hatched over nite and are great!
Went out to the hen house and all but 1 of hers have hatched! Good girl.
Now I am wondering if I...
Well, I hate to bother you folks, I know how busy summer is but I have a question.
I've had chickens for years until I got hurt, bad fall long story but! this year I did get some more.
In the older hen house they poured a deep concrete pad and built on top of it using pressure treated base
and...
I was given a lovely broody Aurecana (sp) hen with 6 chicks.
I scurried about trying to figure how to put them safely in a chicken house.
In the top house I have 4 hens & 1 rooster bantam cochins.
In the bottom house I have a bantam rooster, a 7 mo old cornish rock hen (yes 7 mos and she lays...
Nice to see so many New Yorkers about.
I am very excited to be back into chicks again tho Bantams Cochins are a new experience.
I have 16 3 wk old peeps in the chick house now. Golden Laced and Splash types.
Got my heat lights on with these fall temp nites.
Straw on the floor is what I've heard...
Good morning, my name is Sage. I live on the NY/Pa border.
An older young lady, I live in the country and try to live as much like the old days as I can.
No TV! Just Netflix thanks to my son. I have a new puppy after losing my beloved other dobe...a schnoodle!
Entertaining lil thing...