Went to check on the chickens today, I had a hen with her head stuck under the rollout bar on my Nesting box. I don't know if she was trying to peck the egg that was under there BUT she got caught and then, got cold. High was -4 degrees today though the coop in that run is showing 11 degrees...
So 5 weeks ago our Americauna hatched out 7 of her 10 eggs. We also supplemented the hatch with 4 Rhode Island Reds from our local farm store for 11 chicks. One of the those didn't ever take off and I went back for a replacement and hey, it was clearance day, got 2 for 1. So, half a week...
The last couple weeks of April one of my Silver Laced Polish hens, (we call all our silver lace hens Tina though the Thunderdome hairstyle of Tina Turner at the time was really a blonde mix but then our Buffs we call Phyllis and Ms. Diller's hair at the time was mostly white) decided she wanted...
Moved just North of Kearney, MO 4 years ago. Literally just North, the south side of our road is in the city limits, and my wife wanted chickens so after doing Online looking I built a coop and run and a Brooder for what turned out to be 8 Chickens and one Rooster of the Russian Orloff variety...