Please help! This is my 1st time breeding and incubating red golden pheasants.
2 pipped yesterday morning. This morning one of them has a hole in the side of the egg and i can see the baby. But i can see that the thin paper layer is still on the baby. And i believe i see a little blood. The...
I habe a question i have a flock of 60 or so chickens. A mix of hens and roos of different varieties. Well i want to breed specific breeds now. For examples i have speckeled roo and hen pairs, and polish pairs. So they have been free range and many different types of roos have breed with all of...
I have a rhode island red hen and a bantam roo. Can I incubate their eggs? And of so, will the chicks grow to be big or small? Egg size? Had anyone done this?
About 5 months ago I purchased 6 chickens and 2 ducks. The share a hen house that's big enough for all of them. I habe a male and femal duck. My drake seems to think the only buff orphington in the group is a female duck. He keeps chasing her and grabbing her by the neck and dragging her...
I have a question. A lady I met gave me some almost ready to hatch eggs. She doesnt know exactly when they are going to hatch. She had them inside of a coop and a hen was sitting on them. But she is about to move so she gave them to me. I candled them and they are full and appear to be about...
Hello. I have 2 month old chickies and this morning when I went out to feed everyone I have a buff orphington who has her head cocked to the side and will not straighten it up. She is standing on both feet. I noticed yesterday that she was not sticking around the flock like usual and when I...
hello! I have 4 laying hens. 2 of them were not laying for quite some time. but now that we are having longer days, I have one more laying and Im sure the last will be to follow. So all week I have had good eggs. 3 a day no problem. However yesterday I found one in the coop that was a squishy...
Hello. I purchashed 4 hens and the are just about 8 months old. Almost 3 months ago, they started laying. For a couple weeks I was getting 2 to 3 eggs each day. So I assumed 3 of them had began laying and the 4th would start soon. However, I am now only getting 2 eggs a day. I have a barred rock...