Hey, time to play what's the breed.
We got these two from the Assorted Banties bin. The first one has some fuzzy feet.
The second one here is tiny, My wife thinks she is a road runner.
The last one here is a standard size chicken. I think I know what she is, but I would like to make...
Its been four days now, so I am calling it a loss. more than likely to a hawk.
Her name was "Santas Little Helper", (she hatched on Christmas Day 2010) but I called her Lil'bit. She was in my very first hatch out, there were 2 others that hatched the day before (Christmas Eve), thats probably...
Hey,
I have never shipped eggs to anyone, but I browse the selling parts of this site a bit and I have rarely seen any Delaware eggs offered up. I have some nice Delawares (I'll go take some pics in the morning) and I guess I was wondering if there was a demand for their eggs or not? and I...
I have searched around before I posted this, and all the posts were like "yeah!, you can move them easy!" but... they were all 1 day trips...
We are (more than likely) moving from the east coast of NC, very near the water, to Colorado Springs area. thats a good 3 day trip without livestock in...
woot! Hatching day is the best day of the year
Went out this morning and we had 3, checked again at 10:00 and we have 5!
one egg has pipped, and another is zipping ( I have the sweetest hen, she doesn't even peck at me when i check )
anyway, heres the proud momma and 2 of the chicks
what approximate age does a white pekin get his drake feather?
I have 3 that i got in march. they are all fully feathered, one is a bit larger than the other 2.
just curious as to what I have
Okay, a little background info first...
I have 8 pullets (will be 1 year old on may 22) My BO has already hatched out 3 chicks on Christmas eve/day, and she proved to be a great mom
I ordered 6 new chicks from MPC, they ship on March 14, and should be here no later than the 16th.
I do not...
I started my flock last year in may, I had ordered a nice mix of 10. 2 BO's, 2 Delawares, 5 EE Hens and 1 EE Roo.
One of the BO's died on the first night but the other 9 chicks did well. (you can see pictures on my BYC page)
We had our BO go broody in early December, so I loaded her up and we...
Looking at the sexlink info here https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=261208
I am trying to determine the sex of my 3 chicks
daddy was an ee, but he was very red, here is a pic of him
we had only 2 moms, 1 was a BO, and the other 2 were from a Delaware
We will do the BO...
I have my broody and her chicks in a separate room, attached to the coop, when is okay to let the babies go out with the rest of the flock?
my coop is in a 20x20 shed and is partitioned thusly
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Well, I have a 7 month old cockerel, I have tried to work with him. I gave him every chance in the world, I tried to break him using every technique that I could find on these forums to no avail.
He is rough on the girls ( I have 1 to 8 ratio so he shouldn't be that rough) all of the girls have...
well, my big BO hatched out 2 chicks just fine, and it looked as if she stepped on one... I Saw it this morning when I opened the coop (about 7:00 AM) and mom and the 2 chicks were up eating, the top was smashed in pretty bad, but I saw beak, and saw it was breathing, so I went back inside to...
Got a new baby this morning!!! we are up to 2 now, 3 more to go.
This one hatched on the 22nd, and came out this morning to give his mom a christmas eve kiss
and yes, this is his actual mom, I marked the eggs with who laid them hehe
my broody hatched out her 1st chick this morning!
She is in the coop with the rest of the flock, so my question is... how do I feed just the chicks?
I got some medicated chick feed for them, but I am sure the general population would love to eat all of it....
I built a broody pen off to the...
So, I went out to feed the chickens this morning.... and my broody BO Peeped at me !!!
I ran back to the house to get the camera, I know i'm probably not supposed to take a peek, but I couldn't resist
luckily, she was butt out and I could easily and gently lift her up just a little bit
and...
I have a pretty young flock , 8 pullets, and 1 cockerel. just to give you some info on their living conditions,
the coop is 6' x 20', plenty of roosts, and 6 nest boxes. the run is 20' x 35', so they have PLENTY of room for just 9 birds.
I know that my cockerel is young, and full of hormones...
I check on my chickens when I go out for a smoke, about every hour and a half or so, when I went out this time, my broody had gone back and set on the wrong nest !!!
I checked the eggs, they were still pretty warm, so I picked up the broody and put her back on the correct nest....
Will they be...
This is my first broody, she has been sitting on a pair of golfballs for 3 days now.
I just got back in from loading her up with 7 eggs.
Hope all goes well, I will be updating this thread until hatching.
I marked all the eggs with the date they were laid (yesterday and today) and the name of...