Mine missed that part of their education. For 3 weeks now, i offer them millett every evening, presented in a small cardboard bowl, that I rattle / shake/ roll (sorry, couldn't resist), and call out 'treat, treat,treat' place the bowl in their coop and go away. They never bother it...
Recently acquired 11 Keets, 9 were a week old and 2 were 2 weeks. Well, the 2 week old are both hopping on one leg and the 'knee joint' is swollen. Will these 2 make it in the grown up guinea world ? Is there anything I can do to help them, if it is necessary I will put them down, but I had...
This is a new experience for me....1st time chicken breeder Two broodie BO's both have 12 eggs under them and have new chicks that are 3 days old. Both hens chicks peck at the mama's eyes...Is this normal ?
When will they move their chicks out of the nest ? No brood box, just regular egg...
Multiple Questions, but first let me ask : Is this the proper forum , it seems that most all questions here have to do with incubator hatching.
with that said, I'll ask my questions anyhow...
4 hole nester, 2up and 2down....one broodies up top and the other on the 1st level
when the eggs hatch...
I have 3 Buff O's and the one Barred Rock....One of the 4 has had a color change in her egg shell, I think it is the BR since her eggs have always been a lighter brown than the BO's. But for about 2 weeks now her eggs have become much lighter, not quite white but getting very close...
Five Buff O's and one Barred Rock, Hatched early Feburary and started laying early August. By early October they were laying 6 eggs a day. I became lazier and neglected to close the door to the coop, they roam during the day and go back in the coop to roost at dark. Went out to take roll one...