I have had chickens and pheasants along with finches canaries and budgies my whole life... Now I just have chickens (chooks)
Have candled eggs for fertility
I have kept all sorts of breeds,
Hatched out of incubators with 98% success rate
Grown chickens out to maturity successfully
Have...
My chickens were in there pen and have been for 4 months
earlier in the week I lost 5 to a wild cat....what a mess
night before last I lost another 9 by the same problem...wild cats....but have only picked up 7 chickens not 9...so assume they have taken two with them...maybe to feed wild kittens...
this hatch I have had a bird hatch early under a chicken at 16 days and one hatch in the incubator at 17 days......and now one hatch on day 18 both were started the same day only because I had a broody chicken and wanted to see how well she would do but on hatching one she has fouled all her...
I set 51 eggs in my incubator and I went outside and collected my hen that had been sitting on her nest for a few days. I put her in a cage inside and gave her 12 eggs...... she pushed 3 out and let them go cold an to my surprise they were empty, she had 9 left and she has sat on them very...
what does any one know about stick fasts and how they take hold on chickens. Have read that Maldison 50 fixes them...for a while. Guess a regular spray of their pen and bedding is the go. Their combs are certainly covered in them and they appear to be so annoying. The attach at one end and...