This is my very first hatch. Ive been checking every day to see how my cochin was doing with her eggs. Yesterday I picked her up and all the eggs looked ok, but I swore I heard little peeps. I thought maybe it was a song bird. Anyway I go in today and I find a broken shell under her but no baby...
I was weed eating an overgrown hill today on my property and as I cut back the brush I found a stash of 12 eggs! They look like my little bantam eggs. Is this normal? I have 2 broody hens sitting in the 2 nesting boxes. I only have 3 girls. Would the 3rd go out and make her own nest in the...
So I want my hens to sit and hatch their eggs. I didnt collect for a few days and now both of my hens are broody! They were just a fussin about me looking at their eggs. So 2 hens were snuggled together on about 8 eggs. I have two bantams one is a duccle and one is a frizzle. Anyway, will they...
I have a one year old silkie hen who recently went lame. She just sits and can barely walk, if I try to move her she just falls right on her face. She can shuffle around a little but not very much. She is super thin and her breadtbone is sticking out. Ive seperated her from the flock and have...
Ok Im still pretty new to chickens. Ive read a few posts and wanted to share how Im i tegrating my 4 to 5 week old cochins into my flock. I currently have 2 silkies who are 1 year old. 3 duccles who are 9 weeks old and 5 cochins who are 5 weeks old.
When I put my duccles in at 7 weeks I had a...
Im pretty new to chickens. I started off with 3 silkies and pretty quickly lost one to a hawk. So ive had a coop sized for 10 full grown birds holding 2 bantams. I just come in and clean it out about once a month and its been ok. Well now I just put 3 mille fleurs and I have 5 cochins coming in...