Hello I’m looking for some advice please - I have two broody hens and only one egg. They seem to take turns sitting on it but both are in the nest box pretty much 24/7. The actual mum is a bantam Wyandotte and the brood buddy is a full sized Wyandotte and top of the pecking order so I’m...
Hello, I'm after some advice please, as struggling to find useful info specific enough to my chicken. I have a non-chicken veterinary background so not just trying to avoid seeing a professional here and I'm learning to be able to help others in the future too. He is a 14 week old bantam cross...
Help! This has been a difficult journey with a confirmed 6 out of 8 chicks male and now the final two have started crowing - one yesterday and the other today. They are 10 week old bantam crosses. Does this definitely mean 8 out 8 are cockerels?? Am I the most unlucky first time egg farmer...
Hello, I'm very new to all this and just introduced a new 7 week old chick to my existing 5 chicks just before bedtime. The existing 5 are about 10 weeks old and from the same mixed bantam flock (so they have met before!). I expected some pecking but it seemed pretty brutal and the new chick was...
Hello, I've recently been given 8 mixed bantam chicks from a neighbour and have fallen in love with them all! I'm finding it very tricky to sex them as apart from an obvious downy rooster and an obvious barred hen, they seem to be on a spectrum rather than female/male dichotomy. I should have...