Apologies in advance to anyone who gets itchy from reading this, I got itchy writing it!
I’ve recently noticed tiny bugs that make their way onto me every time I go out to the coop, and I can’t figure out that they are. They’re fast but I haven’t seen them jump. They’re so small that I can’t...
I know it’s early, but the red in the comb has me worried I’ve got a roo. This is the only one of the 6 eggs my broody hen had that hatched, so no siblings to compare to unfortunately. I got them from someone local, believe the mom is an F1 olive egger and dad is a maran (black copper...
Hi! I’m currently hatching my first eggs under my black australorp. She went broody and I got 6 olive egger eggs from FB marketplace to put under her. Everything was going great until we had an early chick on Thursday evening, which puts it at just barely day 18. That chick is doing great, but...