Hi, all.
I bought 6 Welsummer and 6 Ameraucana eggs from Inside Yolk through this site, and he very generously sent me 8 of each. I don't have an incubator, I bought the eggs to try to take advantage of Bootsy going broody (again!). She has hatched out someone else's egg before, but I can't...
Hi, all. Today I lost a smallish hen (a blue araucana) to a predator. The head was missing altogether, and she was ripped open. It happened in broad daylight, next to the back fence of the yard. I live in an urban area, but have a big back yard that backs up to the train tracks, so it's a...
Hi, folks. I'm a city chick with room for 4 more good laying hens. I currently have a silver polish and a black "araucana" but they're not laying any more. But they're nice girls, so at least for the time being they can stay! I also have one roo, a cross between the polish mama and a serama...
I have a mama hen who hatched out a mini-clutch (3 chicks) a week ago. How soon should I expert her to start laying again? She is being a great mom, by the way.
Thanks
Regina
Crow went broody about 3 weeks ago ... Of course I'd been taking the eggs up till then, but the other hen, Bebop (I only have 2 plus the little roo) laid four more in their one shared nest, which I left for her. At that point I made a separate nest for the broody in a dog kennel, on my porch...
The little Easter Egger pullet sounds like a telegraph machine. She beeps CONSTANTLY. Like she's reciting War and Peace in Morse Code. It is MADDENING, since she hasn't been admitted to the coop and is actually spending her nights in the kitchen. I'm about to drown the little critter...
I went to a poultry show last Saturday and came home with an "Araucana" pullet (supposedly, but with a tail and no ear muffs), who is perky and healthy, and a miserable salmon faverolle hen, of undetermined age, from the same breeder. I'm afraid the faverolle was one of those...