Hi! I haven't been around in awhile, but maybe someone here can help. I am trying to find a home for a Silver Americauna Rooster that was rescued by people on a busy street in Mt Vernon. He is gorgeous and good with hens (he stayed with me one night, escaped to have my hens follow him around...
I've got her sitting on a couple of eggs (including several 'Happy Eggs' as I know people have managed to hatch those out before, so taking a chance), but I have no rooster. I'm trying to get a couple of known fertile eggs in the next day or so. I would really like her to brood as I would like...
Has anyone here had to deal with peacocks attacking their own reflection? The two in question are not mine, but belong to the property I live on. I like having them around, they are characters. However, this spring one of the males in particular has started fixating on the chrome bumpers of my...
Hi! I have a buff orp hen who is going broody and I thought it might be fun to put a couple of live eggs under her. I'm not really particular about breed, it is more of an experiment than anything, I just don't have a rooster around to fertilize eggs and my neighbor just got rid of all their...
Hi! I haven't posted here in awhile, but I have a question.
My 2 year old buff orpington hen started laying again this spring, so far so good, but it seems now that she is laying a lot of almost unusually large eggs. One nearly covered my palm and fingers (almost goose or turkey sized...), boy...
I got into chickens slightly before the curve. I always wanted one since I saw the 1930's something pic of my dad with his pet chicken. My first set of chickens were raised 2016 and moved into a flock on a farm I moved to a few months later. My chicks (by then hens) had by that time become...