We have a one year old cochin bantam who has been a good little egg layer for us. She was at the bottom of the pecking order of our four hens because of a hurt foot early on. She went broody this spring so we got her some chicks to mother, which she has done a good job with, but she started to...
I'm new to chickens and this is my first time trying to hatch anything with hens. I have 4 bantam hens and two of them (cochin and silkie) went broody so we got them some fertilized eggs to hatch. I got two quail eggs for the silkie because we thought that would be fun, and we were so excited...
Hi - I'm pretty new to the chicken thing. We live in the city and last year a friend of mine, who raises chickens, suggested that I get some chicks for my kids to raise for the summer and then send them on to her at the end of the summer. So we did and we've had a ball with them! We got about...