Is there anyone who can post pics of peahen eggs and peachicks? Considering buying a pair next year and while looking for info everywhere i could i realized there wereno pics of eggs or peachicks. After looking online im interested in a purple pair. Could anyone help me out with some good pics...
We went ahead and put our 6 week old ducks outside cause it turned 80 dgs. all week then we got a cold snap to about mid 30's at night. They seem ok even at nite. 1 of them died cause it wouldnt come out of its warm little hut to eat or drink and i was inexperienced and didnt even think bout...
I dont have any pics rite this second but i grabbed 6 bantam chicks from local feed store and i knew almost rite away wat they all were and i thot 1 in particular was a red cochin at first. Then i changed my mind and thot it was a mille fleur duccle. I just got done lookin at its feet though and...
One blue and one black sumatra roo. local pickup only. Can meet somewhere round Corydon, IN. Might meet u halfway if your somewhere in Kentucky. Both good roos. Very calm and pleasant. We just want to make more room for hens. Can email me at [email protected] if u would like pics
Me and my husbund bought two rabbits from our local feeder store that sells them every year. We eyed them for couple of weeks to see how healthy they were. They seemed fine so we bought a couple. They're adorable. Of course. We named them Acorn and Wizard. They have wonderful personalities and...
We set eggs to hatch in our incubator on Feb. 14. We went to pull egg turner out and there were 2 baby chicks already hatched!!! Thank god they weren't injured. Lokkd like they hadn't been there long. Were still wet completely both of them. We took egg turners out of course and left chicks in...
Me and my husband purchased 3 ducks bout a week ago. We've had chickens little over a year but we've never dealt with ducks before. We have 1 khaki campbell and 2 cayugas. We were wondering if anyone could tell us if its ok to keep ducks and chickens together in same pen or wod it be better to...
Had 8 chicks hatch 2 days ago. Or so we thought. We found 2 more we didn't even see wen we lookd underneath her. One was a bantam and it kept on falling completely over on its side and couldn't get up. The other chicks struggled like that too but they were able to get back up. This one struggles...
Can anybody tell me if 5 toe gene for houdan is recessive or dominant? Our first chick hatched 2 days ago. Looks like mottled houdan and has 5 toes but we are not sure if its not mixed because our rooster and hens were together with bunch of other breeds too. Thot I read something bout 5 toes...
This is our first hatch and I have some questions. Do I need to pull out chicks as they hatch so they don't get suffacated? And so she will hatch all eggs instead of raising first chick? We had some eggs in incubator but gave them to her when she went broody so might be 1 or 2 day difference in...
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Me and my husband purchased an asst. Of banties from hatchery about last fall
and got 2 splash silkies.
One we knew was hen cause she sit on some wooden eggs we put in nest in pen for
Broody orpington hen and wod peck...
No, I'm not callin my chicken a RedNeck. His feathers are falling out around his neck and skin underneath looks red and irritated. Though he doesn't act sick at all. Also feathers round neck are kind of frizzled lookin. Though he's not frizzled chicken. Can chickens get mange? Husband said he...
How do they make blue sumatras , by breeding standard black with white something else. And where is spash, sorry for asking dumb questions but we have black and blue and was wondering why blue wasn't standard.
I have about 45 chickens. 5 are polish and 5 are mottled houdans.
My other chickens are always pulling crest feathers out of one polish hen I have.
They pull them out so much she bleeds almost canstantly.
We have thot about putting her out of pen but then roosters
Wod probly mate her to death...