Hi,
I've been on BYC for a while as a chicken owner, but have now got a couple of goslings. Unfortunately I bought them off one of the gypsy vans that come round here in greece, and they weren't well raised to say the least and were a right scruffy poorly little pair.
I don't know how old they...
My broody hen has hatched 6 of 10 eggs and now has chicks running about so has left the nest. There are 4 remaining eggs and I float tested them and at least 2 of them wiggled so are potentially viable. What shall I do? She doesn't seem interested in sitting any more.
Its really warm here...
I was given 10 fertile eggs for my broody hen to sit on 21 days ago, as I'd recently send my rooster on his way for being aggressive! She broke 1 but the others seemed ok and last night I saw one tiny head so got 1 chick. Today I expected some more and I saw one egg had been pipped so left them...
hi. I'm Pam, and I'm a Brit living in Greece.
I took 2 wee chicks off a friend who'd incubated them just over a year ago. They turned out to be a hen and a cock, Donald and Hillary. They are mongrels, whatever the correct terminology is in chicken world :-)
When they grew a bit and I realised...