I've recently acquired two 13/14 week old Polish pullets, who have been hand raised indoors in a cage with a few of their Polish sisters. At our place we have 1 rooster, 4 adult hens, and 10 pullets who are about 12/13 weeks old. The new Polish girls have been given haircuts so that they can...
We recently got an order of chicks from Ideal Poultry- I had heard all kinds of good things about them and we had decided to do mail order to get a couple cochins and Polish chicks which are not easy to come by around here...
Anyway, the chicks arrived April 25, and I had to make several phone...
We haven't seen this addressed so I thought I'd ask under a new topic. We have a hen who we are thinking of tricking into raising babies for us we order. Our plan is to get her broody and let her set on some ceramic eggs (she does go broody on these eggs when we would leave them out). When...