These chicks are 4.5 weeks old. What do you think - did we lose out this time on the male/female genetics dice? The sooner I know, the sooner I can try to place them, as I'm pretty certain I have some roosters in my other two breeds of chicks. They are slow in getting feathers, but I'm seeing...
We're building a modified version of the Garden Loft coop. The plans show a flat hardware cloth roof/ceiling to the run and coop, with the area above open between the beams. My husband's certain that wild birds will fly in and sit on top, leaving behind droppings. Worried about avian flu, he...
I have seven laying hens. The maximum # of eggs that I've gotten is 4; daily average is 3; sometimes I get 2 or 1. Egg production began increasing in January, more so in February and March, but seems to have stopped at the average of 3 eggs. Is 3 out of 7 considered a good percentage of...
When a friend had a broody hen, he bought 3 Mille Fleur D'uccle chicks at 3 weeks, purportedly from a show breeder. The hen promptly killed 2, and I got the last one. At first, I thought it resembled Mille Fleur chicks, but now he has a crazy topknot and no "fleurs". I have read that their...