My granddaughter who wanted to hatch a chick here at my house in an incubator while she was visiting has a new chick. However She left last night, and the one egg in it hatched this morning, now I have to get it to my daughters house and we’re going to put it under her broody hen and hopefully...
I have had my chickens on both, New Country Organics, and Green Mountain Organic pellets, both non-soy. On the new country organics, I lost two hens per necropsy results, die of fatty liver disease. So I switched them to the Green Mountain organic pellets. I also give them oyster shells and...
I have a 10 month old Rooster. He started crowing at about three months old. However he has never ever mated with any of my hens, he has never tried either, and he has the most horrible crow you’ve ever heard. My daughter and son-in-law who have had chickens for years, when they first heard...
Looks like it was her liver.. 91/2 months old. Strange if you ask me, but here are the results
Post-mortem Examination
The necropsy was performed by Dr. Brian Stevens on January 11, 2018 at 8:00 am.
EXTERNAL FINDINGS:
The female chicken weighs 2.513 kg and is in good body condition with...
This afternoon I went to do my usual check of the flock and when I opened the coop door one of my 9-1/2 month old Buff Orpingtons hens was laying there dead. I was devastated, these birds are my babies. Last night and this morning she was absolutely fine. I looked her over for injuries and found...
I have never used heat, even though the temps have been well below zero degrees here in NH, however the past week which has been brutal, my Rooster has started crowing non stop late at night into the morning hours. Not fun going out there at 2am. We have 24 birds in all, 18 of them 10 months old...
We have our first ever broody hens. We are in NH where it’s getting down in the 20’s and 30’s at night, and even the teens occasionally so far..The broody hens, are 2 of our buff Orpingtons. This morning one chick hated, and was found in the run with mom. We put her and the baby back in with the...
I have a question...yesterday or the night before I introduced 2 new chickens (silkies) to the flock the way Justin Rhodes said to do it, by putting them in at night, and the chickens think they’ve always been there. Worked great! No issues. Our daughter gave us these 2 new ones. Everything is...
I am new to selling eggs. I feed my flock both chickens and ducks, soy free organic feed and they also free range. The feed is about $140.00 a month. I’m allergic to soy. Any idea how much I should sell both type of eggs for?
Heads up graphic photo of his sore head..
I have two roosters one is a Easter Egger named Rocky who is just a regular old rooster.. he’s pretty laid-back and even will cuddle his head in my neck...and my other one is Popover, a White crested black Polish. He’s a little guy with wrey tail...
I have a 13 week old easter egger rooster, named Rocky. He started crowing at about 10 weeks old, then about a week ago, probably last week or so, he started trying to mate with my two hen ducks, both khaki Campbell's and also 13 weeks old. He doesn't try to mate with the hens, just the ducks...
I have a 13 week old easter egged rooster, named Rocky. He started crowing at about 10 weeks old, then about a week ago, probably last week or so, he started trying to mate with my two hen ducks, both khaki Campbell's. He doesn't try to mate with the hens, just the ducks. It makes them so mad...
I have a white crested black polish Roo. He's 13 weeks old and I recently noticed his tail is sideways. He's silly looking enough with his hippie head of feathers.
Anyone know about crooked or sideways tail feathers? He's also odd in that he loves the ducks. He stays with them and if he loses...
The other night I heard coyotes howling really close by :eek:. I heard that human voices work to scare off predators, and know it worked for my neighbor..so I searched high and low looking for a radio to use, to no avail. Finally I remembered we have two old cell phones, so I charged them up...
The other night I heard coyotes howling really close by, :eek:so I searched high and low looking for a radio to no avail, to hopefully keep the coys at bay. Finally I remembered we have two old cell phones, so I charged them up, set one on YouTube in the nesting box that's blocked off, and one...
Our neighbors crack us up. We don't know what they're feeding their chickens, but you should see the size of the eggs...they need two nesting boxes for this one chicken alone..
I'm new here and thought it would be fun to post at least seven reasons to have chickens.
Here's my 7.
1- health fresh gmo free organic eggs
2- pest control. they eat ticks and other insects
3- They make great pets. some are so lovable and become attached to you.
4- great for kids for so many...
I'm really glad I found backyard chickens. I've helped raise chickens that belonged to other family members, but this is the first time I'm raising my own. Been watching YouTube channels on chickens for a couple years as well, but I'm still a nervous wreck lol. This is Day 2 of having babies. We...