Okay so I'm still rather new at this even though we've had birds for 3 years now.
We currently have 58 birds [only 1 adult rooster atm]
- 8 Cochin (babies)
- 2 Silver Leghorns (babies)
- 11 White Leghorns (3 adults 8 teens)
- 2 Rhode Island Reds (adults 1 hen 1 rooster)
- 2 Rhode Island Whites...
This is day 23 of our incubation. 2 days ago 5 eggs hatched, 1 died within hours, 1 died that night, and one died this morning. The other 2 seem to be doing just fine, chirping and running around.
The 1 that died right away had not absorbed it's yoke.
The 1 that died that night never really...
Okay, so we are trying to incubate eggs, got an app that tells us when the eggs are due, yada yada yada, so we do everything as we're told, humidity, temp, time, now i have eggs that are according to the app around 6 days over due. Thinking out rooster is an idiot we cracked open several eggs to...
About 2 months ago we hatched 2 chicks, Freckles and Red. They were in a baby coop because our adults are jerks and would peck at their heads. (They've killed 2-3 chicks this way).
Recently someone dropped off a 9 month old stray puppy at our house. He got a hold of Freckles while we were...
So we did that stupid thing of "OH MY GOSH DUCKLINGS ARE SO CUTE LETS GET SOME" and came home with 2 ducklings.
Yes I know, that isn't how you should do things, but it is what it is.
Yesterday we finally discovered that yes one is female, the other we knew was male but we weren't sure about...
So we have Plymouth Rock hen, who until we got new chicks didn't give a lick about her eggs, when we got new babies, she showed great interest in the baby chicks. We had had her for nearly a year and half to two years at this point, and she'd never showed interest. Suddenly she went super...
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I live in southern New Mexico, we've had chickens about 2 years now, give or take a month. 4 Rhode Island Reds, 3 Leghorns, 1 Partridge Rock, 1 Asian Black, 3 Black Sex Link, 4 Barred Rocks, 5 Red sex link, 1 New Hampshire Red, and 2 newly hatched chicks, one we think is Rhode Island red...