Okay, this is going to be a bit long, I'm afraid.
Last year my homeschooling family participated in a 4-H Classroom chick hatching program. I was willing to give them back to the extension office for adoption, but my husband suggested building a coop and keeping them, so here we are... In...
1) What type of bird , age and weight (does the chicken seem or feel lighter or thinner than the others.)
Chicken, could be about 6 months old.
2) What is the behavior, exactly.
Yesterday I noticed her sitting in their shelter, thought maybe she was going to lay. She eventually came out, no...
Hi! We have 10 pullets (hatched mid-May) and have been getting 1-2 eggs most days for 2 1/2 weeks now, never more than two. I know two for sure that have been laying brown eggs, not sure if there might be another one trading in turns. But, today my husband found this lovely pale blue, sightly...
We got our first egg today! Our chicks hatched May 15 and 16, so just over 20 weeks old.
My six year old is asking if we can get an incubator and hatch the egg! Umm, no!
She wasn't standing still for a great picture, but I'd love to know more about this lovely pullet. She's probably a mixed breed. She's a pretty, speckled dove gray and has some light feathering down her lower legs.
Thank you!
We hatched 20 chicks this spring, pretty much a mix of different barnyard hybrids, in a 4-H classroom chick project. We've culled 3 out of the 10 roosters and it's time to get serious about the rest of them. We have small children, so won't keep any rooster that gets an attitude, but wouldn't...