Here is the situation:
My hen brooded 6 eggs and killed each of them as they hatched but one, eating three of them. She has never done that before, and now she's acting hostile but not outright aggressive towards the lone survivor. She is my only broody and she has some terrible habits, but...
Hello All: I had six eggs under my broody and she ATE most of them, crushed one, and one was infertile - BUT I had ONE hatch. She's in danger if I leave her with her mother and the local stores don't have chicks. I need a couple of babies to keep my single company, but am having a really hard...
Hi All! These are (rather poor, but best I have) photos of the birds we raised when I was a child. We got ten hens and a rooster from a man my mother worked with who was retiring from cock fighting. Thank goodness we could give them a safe place to live! We let them free range, which they...
Hello All! Back in February, my friend was on his way home when the lady down the road stopped him and asked him if that was his gray chicken in the tree. He thought, "Silly old lady, there's no such thing as a gray chicken" and went on his way. Turns out, there really was a gray chicken in...
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