How do I change the place where my Guineas are roosting at. They have started roosting in a tree next to our front porch and it is a mess on my steps every morning.My husband wants to get rid of them ,so I have to find a way to get them to go back in the wood next to the chicken pen where they...
I orderd 25 baby chicks from Mc Murray ,they came today , only 9 liveing chicks ,This was so sad to see when I opened the box , I cried .I will never order chicks again. I ordered them because I wanted to start some BR and RR chickens ,ended up with one RR and 8 BR ,soooooooo sad
This is driveing me crazy ,The first time I incubatored eggs I had a still air LG and I had 36 eggs in it ,all hatched but 3 ,the guy up the street said to wet a cloth and put it in there and that was all the humidity that I would need ,and it worked great,when it was dry I wet it again ,now I...
A few years ago in Britain there was this diseases called mad cow diseases and they didn't know where it came from ,they started to study the diseases and found out that many years ago in New Guinea the people ate the brains of their dead , because they thought this was suppose to make them...
I am going tomorrow to pick up a Sportsman incubator for 250.00 ,I don,t have any eggs to go in it yet but im happy .We have this news paper here that comes out every Thursday with things that people have to sale in it and I was the first one to call about the incubator and I got it . Now...
I met Dumpsgirl today ,what a nice lady ,She just lives a few miles up the road from me .I called her last night ,not knowing who she was ,just answering an add about chickens and we started to talk and what a small world we live in . She came by today and sold me some eggs for a friend of...
I have been reading in here where some of you are feeling bad ,tired not wanting to do anything.Well let me tell you a few years ago I was like that ,I went to the Dr. and she did a blood test and I had almost no Vitamim D in my body. They say that this does not make you feel bad , But trust me...
Today I took some scraps out to feed to my chickens,there was a few pieces of spam in there from a sandwich that my DH had , the hens that got the spam turned into killer chickens ,they tried to kill anything that tried to take there spam away .It was so funny.
Some of you are not going to believe this , But only the ones that truely believe will . A few years ago I fell and broke my leg just above my knee ,I had to have surgery to repair it ,and I had never met the Dr. repairing my leg, so when he came in the operateing room ,when he saw me ,he said...
If you are raising baby chicks to sale, how much would you charge for them ? Remenber the people around here like cheep stuff .LOL I hatched some Guineas this summer and sold them for 3.00 a piece , Just not sure about chicks
I have a hen outside that has hatched some babies ,I don't how many she has got yet .I raised her up a little today and saw two little legs sticking out ,so I know she has one ,Is there a way that I can find out how many she has? And her nest is about 18 inches off the ground so how will she get...
i have some chicks in side that hatched a few days ago ,There is one yellow one that seems to be fine except ,He gets on his back and can't get up , I went out there twice today and had to turn it over ,when he gets up he acts just fine,Is this normal ?
My little Grandson is nine ,The kids at school have been telling him there was no Santa, He ask his mom and dad and they told him the truth ,He said you mean all those cookies and milk I left for Santa all those years you and mommie ate it .Now his little heart is broken ,he just cried and cried...
I have 33 RIR eggs that I got on ebay in one of my incubators ,that was suppose to hatch on Saturday Dec.13 th . Sunday one pepped and died , Monday one hatched and lived , now there is nothing going on .31 eggs and nothing . Today is the 24th day so do I trash them all tomorrow?
One of my new chicks hatched yesterday and its but was all pushed out and bleeding ,something was hanging out off it , It hatched all by itself no help from me . It died last night . So what happened ?
A few weeks ago I had a hen setting on some eggs ,and she left the nest ,I checked them all day that day to see if she was comeing back ,And she didn't ,that night me and DH got the eggs and put them in an incubator , if I counted right she was suppose to hatch them on Dec.4. Well they didn't...