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  1. Cheeki

    Mother hen is my name

    I ended up with 7 broody hens up until last week. They all hactched off their eggs except one. A first time broody left the nest with three chicks and left one egg that was pipping. With the Georgia heat it didn't hamper that final hatch and I found the chick just after it shed it's shell. I...
  2. Cheeki

    Who knew?

    Ok, so I got five broody hens at this time. I was gonna be all meticulous and write down the chicken name, number if eggs, day one, 10 day candle results and perspective hatch date. Who knew that when three broody hens get off their nests at the same te they just hop on the first available nest...
  3. Cheeki

    And August is gonna be a busy month

    Four broody hens so far and I have a couple more that are thinking about going broody. Plus my mallard is attempting to hatch again. I have to mark the eggs I give my broody hens because other hens tend to lay eggs in the nest with them. Then broody pulls that egg under them. I have 22 eggs...
  4. Cheeki

    Rat snake

    I found a rat snake eating duck eggs from a nest in the bottom of an old freezer a week or so ago and it got away. The next week I found a pullet dead with a slimy head. Last night I caught the snake eating more duck eggs from a different nest. This time I went and got my hubby and had him...
  5. Cheeki

    Toes everywhere

    I have a lame chick that I thought had gotten trampled by the other chicks in their cage. I brought her in and upon examination to figure out what the problem was with her I found some strange things. If you look close enough at the pictures you’ll see that one foot has 5 toes. This isn’t...
  6. Cheeki

    Oh Doris....

    Doris the light Brahma is at it again. I have two broody hens (Bossy and Bernadette) and Doris has started crowding in on Bossy to lay her daily egg. She did so well for the first couple of days and laid her egg in a separate box, then today I found an extra egg under Bossy. I left the egg and...
  7. Cheeki

    Crested ducks

    I swore I’d never buy any more Pekins, but the other day TSC has “varied” ducklings... which usually means Pekin around here. Anyway, there was a single crested duck in the bunch so I had to get it. It’s been three weeks and the other one ( had to buy two) is three times the size of the...
  8. Cheeki

    I’m new here

    We’ve had our flock a little over a year now. It started with a wild Canada gosling that my husband found running down the middle of the road. I sent him for feed and told him he needed to get a couple of baby chicks to keep her company. He brought home three light Brahma chicks. They lived in...
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