Me and my husband got covid recently. During those days my daughter didn't pick eggs and a broody chicken took advantage.
Her eggs were more that half way done when I was able to go do chores again.
She hatched 3 babies and last night her 4th. Today after coming from work I found her out and...
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I have a questions about missing eggs under broody ducks.
Backstory: I have 2 ducks that went broody. I will move them everyday with the chickens trying to "break" them. My daughter is in charge of picking eggs but she thought because I'm working with them to break them, I was also...
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What is the best floor you would recommend for a chicken run. In the coop I use shavings during warm weather and I switch to straw for the winter only. but my run is just dirt and it get really messy when it rains. I read about sand but I'm concern about winter time. I live in...
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I'm asking again They are gonna be 9 weeks tomorrow. The first one is definitely bigger than the rest and loves human cuddles. My other roosters where like this. They used to love cuddles too but they had bigger combs. I think the lady 2 are girls.
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I have a mama that hatched 3 babies exactly 8weeks ago. Yesterday, She has started to peck to one of them. But the tricky part is that I moved them indoors when she was seating on the eggs because of the very low temperatures. We are still in the low 30's and its gonna go lower next week. Is...
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We won egg cartons labels giveaway on Instagram and after trying to come up with a name with realized we do not know what kind of eggs we have. Cage free- free range - pasture raised.??? Help!
Our chickens are our pets, so we spoiled them. They eat either organic or Southern states brand...
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We have 3 baby chickens. Approx 3 weeks old that are sneezing to much. It started over a little week ago with random sneezing but now I can hear one of them sneezing every minute and wheezing a little too. There has been a watery discharge since Friday from nose but it's clear no color...
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This is our first winter with chickens and I have some questions in how to keep our coop warm enough. We didn't know better when we decided to have chickens. It all started when we decided to do a hatching program for my daughter but we fell in love of the babies and the rest is...
If you all know about a shelter that needs to move some animals from anywhere who are willing to drive. We have an empty basement with 2 extra rooms there too if needed to separate animals. Just provide crates. We also have a sturdy walk in chicken coop over 1 feet above the ground with only 10...
If you all know about a shelter that needs to move some animals from anywhere who are willing to drive. We have an empty basement with 2 extra rooms there too if needed to separate animals. Just provide crates. We also have a sturdy walk in chicken coop over 1 feet above the ground with only 10...
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I have a small flock of chickens. 7girls and 3 boys to be exact. I used to give them Nature's best Organic chick starter and I switched to the southern states All Grain layer and breeder. All of them are doing good and they do eat but my husband believes that this food is for "girls "...
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When we decided to get chickens we got 2 peeps (less than a week old) and 7 eggs. From the 2 we had a female and male. From the eggs we hatch 5. 3 girls and 2 boys. Now, my question is how do I do for the boys to not fight with each other. They are 11 and 15 weeks old now and I do not...
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It's me again asking probably dumb questions but I'm new here. I was able to hatch 5 babies last Friday, they all were able to come on their own. The second one in coming acts, eats, drink normal but his wings are different from the rest. The first 2 pictures are his the other 2 are his...
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I just got 2 baby chicks and some eggs. I'm not sure how old they are but they seem to be loving my carpet and I was wondering at what age is okay to take them outside to the grass. I'm attaching the best picture I took. Hope this helps.
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My name is Gloria and we recently decided we wanted to raise some chickens in our house. At this moment we do not own chicks yet but we are looking into getting some of eggs and an incubators for my daughter to experiment the miracle of birth. lol I have lots of questions but the main...