We have/had 2 barnyard pet ducks. Nibbler who was a 2nd generation pet of mine that I helped hatch and raised indoors for months, and her unfriendly mate who wasn't quite right Waddles. About a week ago Waddles disappeared. Last night we couldn't find Nibbler and she still hasn't showed back up...
Nibbler made herself a nest, and one of our turkey hens noticed.... now Nibbs is sitting on both duck and heritage bronze turkey eggs. Very curious how this will turn out...
We ordered 6 guinea keets from cackle waaaayyy back in December. Our order finally arrived yesterday!! They sent us 7 keets instead of 6. ^^
We have them in a brooder along with either a blue slate or royal palm poult they also sent. Feeding 28% gamebird starter. Is this appropriate for...
Help! We rescued this little roo and his brother a few days ago knowing he had bumble. We today finally had a moment to look at his feet and realized just how bad they are. We want to help him if we can, but we are OK with saying goodbye to him if it is what is kinder. We have antibiotics if he...
We got our 2nd Cackle Hatchery order of the year. This is the order I was the most excited for. My fiance and I ordered each other Christmas gifts from the hatchery and they are finally here!!!!!
He bought me 6 goslings! A trio of white Embdens, and a trio of (If I remember right) africans...
Any ideas? We have 2. I *think* these ones came from TSC, but may have come in a mystery box from Cackle. They are absolutely tiny. Around the size of a full grown quail
We have several like this, came in a hatchery surprise box. Are these cornishX's? If so I will seperate them and start limiting the feed a bit more than I have been.
Again, all from the bin labeled "golden comet pullets and marans pullets"
I'm new to chickens, buuuuuttt I don't think this random asaortment of mostly bantam cochins(I think) is actually Marans and Golden Comets. Haha. We bought all the birds in the bin and are still trying to figure them...
Any guesses on this one? From a discounted bin at tsc labeled for marans pullets and golden comet pullets that had an assortment of ages and sizes of all different kinds of not golden comet or marans pullets. Such a pretty chick, whatever it is.
Came out of a TSC bin labeled for marans pullets and golden comet pullets....
White fuzz down feet, small chick. not very happy right now, he just had a case of pasty butt washed off, and I gave a few drops of Nutri drench by mouth.
We got hit by chicken math. Tsc had birds 60% off and so...
We got 44 shipped chicks on Friday, our first time with shipped chicks. We lost 1 of the 2 turkey poults early on, but most other baby poultry seem to be doing well. We have 2 chicks we are on the fence about. Both banties(I think). One is a game bantie I think, and it has minor splay leg. It...
Just for fun. The chickens are mystery mutts(hens from 1 place, rooster from another), the ducks are crosses (parents pure, but the 2 ducks are from different places and different breeds make them up). What breeds do you think make them up? Some of them we know(or think we know), but what do you...
We lost a turkey a couple of months back. Based on tracks, carcass, and predator activity, we think it was a coyote that got him. It was our biggest and best tom poult, too. We were planning to hold him back as a breeder. He got left out overnight and hopped over the pasture fence and got got...
There are 44 chicks total, so I'm not going to do photos of all immediately or anything like that, don't worry. "Hatchery Surprise" could be any chicks that Cackle Hatchery has extra of that day. Any breed, any sex, any color, any species(we got 3 pekin ducklings and 2 of what we think are...
SO excited!! 2 days late(hatchery called ahead and said they were delaying shipping them out by 2 days due to weather. They were not in the mail 2 extra days).
They are all in one big brooder now and we will probably leave them like that for the first couple of days unless there are issues...
We got a hatchery surprise box as a christmas gift this year. It includes 40-50+ baby poultry. I have never brooded this many chicks at one time before. Don't even know if they will all be chickens. Any helpful hints for larger scale brooding and what to use for a large brooder?
Thanks
Will...