Ive been raising chickens for several years now and hatching them with great success, but. On many occasions I have had a chicken with legs spraddled out or in or up and Ive done all I know to do and all I can find out to do. Even made a sling for one who grew up without ever taking a step. I...
My flock started out as 10 hens, peacefully living on 10 acres of free range and a wonderful little house that I, an old grandma, built all by myself and was proud.
Then I tried hatching eggs and my flock suddenly became 45 hens and 5 roosters and DH had to come in and build a bigger hen...
i set 2 dozen eggs on the 10th then on the 12th our electricity went out for 5 hours.. the temp went down to 75 degrees in the incubator.
I candled the eggs that night and saw blood veins and i candled them again last night 15th.. i saw a dark spot on many of them but no movement but...
I was raised by two old folks who took me into their lives and I have a million memories of their ways and their tradiations. Tonight I remembered Mammys Egg Pie and am amazed that this memory came out since it is stored away with so many.
Pap was always punny and Mammy wasn't much stronger...
All the hens at roost at 2pm.. still sunshine welll some anyway, then I noticed that night when i got up for my nightly stroll around the house to do my inspection of the property that their light that was to come on at 4am was on at 2am.. no wonder they went to bed so early... lol
going broody..
I noticed that she has been on the same nest every time I gather eggs for the last 3 days, so I gave her a few more. I think she is serious.
It was 0 degrees this week for most of the week. I dont know if she stands a chance or not, she wouddnt have to be gone long from...
Here in Southern Tennesee we have bright beautiful sunshine. Its cold out there, maybe 18 degrees. (10 am) but I hear some of our neighbors have it rough and tooooo it might be coming our way.
I havent done anything different, just made sure I have plenty of chicken feed and scratch. I...
She has continued to do this since she started laying. No one else lays these type eggs. If I get to it before it is broken, crushed, just picking it up will break it into many peices.
This hen is one that has a back ground of in breeding. I finally got rid of my rooster and replaced...
she is older hen.. red sex link. has been slowing down lately but I figured it was her age.
she is very thin almost weighless... really
her crop is totally empty i can feel nothing in there.
i can not feel any thing in her crop.
her egg belly seems to be empty. very empty
she lives...
she has been weak for awhile. a few days or more. stopped eating but attentive.. now i got her out of the pen and checked her out.. FINALLY and i smelled her breath.. ewww and i looked in her mouth and the m ost disgusting yellow stuff is stuffed in there. i took tweazers and got a lot of it...
and what kind of pigeon can this be?
Resident of my town saw my aviary while passing by and came by and asked if I wanted this beautiful Dove. I said yes and even I did not notice or pay enough attention to see that it is a pigeon.
A female. who is mean as a whip. She has killed...
When I was 10 years old, back in the olden days as my grandsons call it, 1955 to be more precise, I signed up for the 4-H chicken program.
We were given 100 chicks straight from the hatchery and we had to raise them and then put them in the county fair.
My wonderful late Uncle John came...
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how many thousands of clicks ive done.. how many times have i sat here trying to share photos with you.. im too dumb to do this.
but it is the only site where i have this trouble..
i know how to copy and paste.. i know how to do lots of...
20 days ago I sat 40 eggs in my incubator. well two incubators. I watched them carefully, sat the temp and the humidity and turned them with great care.
Then it happened. the world just seemed to start turning so fast I could not hold on tight enough. The incubators were so low on the...