Went to check on my 3 week old broad breasted white Turkey poults this afternoon and found this little one like this....Looks dislocated....?? Any advice on where to go from here?? It's still eating and drinking and getting around.....but.....
I have a burn pile out in the open in my lower back yard and yesterday i found that one off my ducks, a 1 year old khaki Campbell, is laying on a nest right on top! I would be super excited except it literally out on the open...it's been getting hotter and we are supposed to be having rain for...
3:30 am and a ruckus outside with the ducks. (They free range in my backyard, about 1/2 acre) I go out to find 4 of them running back and forth in front of the deck going crazy and can hear one in the back of the yard squawking for all it's worth! So i grab a light and go out to find Lilly in...
So here's Billy...poor guy's having an identity crisis! My thought was maybe Australorp/RIR mix??? But what's up with the random feathers down the outside of his legs????
I know this will sound really dumb, but I have to know....can chickens be inbred??? I have a rooster and 2 hens from the same batch of chicks and now they're old enough to breed....soooo....do I keep removing their eggs if they go broody, or is that not a problem with chickens???
These 3 were given to me and are about 14-15 weeks old and I would love to know what they are!! The bottom 2 are quite small and I'm pretty sure are hens, the top one is just slightly larger but I'm not 100% sure if it's a hen or not??
This year my husband and I bought a home complete with a large chicken coop....so in all my inexperienced brilliance, I decided to raise chickens to help feed my "growing flock" of teenage boys! A friend of mine gave me 6 "mixed breed" chicks...4 of which turned out to be roosters , and 1 poor...