Hurricane Irma is due here Sunday night. And this is what is going on in my backyard . I've attached pic. There are 4 now, all born today and may be more coming. We are boarding up her nursery.
Yesterday we lost Cody, our beloved dog and today our first hen to want to brood was sitting on
a dead baby. When we got biddies last year all 12 turned out to be hens, so when this hen wanted to
brood we went and got a dozen eggs from a farm that had roosters. After 20 days, we heard peeping...
From my 12 teens, it looks like two are going to be roosters. One is a red sexlink the other is a black sexlink. Through your own
experiences, is one of these preferrable to keep over the other. The red is more confident and more pushy, the black is
more docile. I don't know what qualities...
We ordered 12 chicks. To our dismay 3 came in 2 weeks ahead of the nine others.
So right now we have (3) 5 weeks old chicks and (9) 2 weeks old chicks. Separated in their areas so far
but hard trying to imprint newer chicks in the coop and really hard knowing how to integrate them in with the...
we wanted 12 chicks and ordered them. To our dismay we got 3 chicks a couple of weeks
early. Then 2 weeks later came the 9 others. This 2 weeks seems to make a big difference and so far we
have them in same area but separated. The older chicks have imprinted in our coop but the little ones
can't...