I am just wondering why this happened, but I got a notification from this thread (https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/moving-to-ireland.1650459/page-2#post-28514759) that @PouleChick had quoted a post from me. I am not following @PouleChick or watching the forum or the thread.
I got notified for this thread by @Jeff_Stone when he was not following me, and I was not following him, with no tag whatsoever.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/the-midnight-snack-coop-with-non-gourmet-chef-jeff.1657975/
I am considering breeding a chicken with silkied feathers by crossing my silkie rooster's offspring back to himself. Would the resulting chicks have health problems? Thank you.
I am considering buying some frizzle EE eggs from Meyer, and I am wondering how many eggs I should get to hatch at least two frizzled hens, including quitters.
My 7-month old white Cochin with 5 chicks suddenly did last night and left behind her chicks, and she was abnormally light recently. She was lethargic last night. Lately, she did not bite us when we tried to touch her chicks. Her comb and wattles were getting lighter, but I think that is normal...
I attempted to hatch two some eggs from my Buff Silkie and Porcelain D'uccle, both developed well but did not hatched. When I opened the eggs after a few days, I found a dead chick, with the yolk & blood almost fully absorbed, but both were not internally pipped. Does anybody have any ideas...
I hatched some barnyard mix eggs from my white Cochin, Papaya. I know the rooster that fathered the eggs was my buff Silkie (my only rooster, but there were two others about two weeks before the eggs were collected, one did have some blue leakage) because they have black skin and five toes. I am...
This morning my Cochin hen laid a soft shell egg in their roosting area. She also will not get up or jump down when a person goes near her, she will just stay sitting there. Yesterday she seemed to be limping but I could not find anything on her foot. Is there anything I can do to help her? I...
Is there any way to breed all the other traits out of a silkie (five toes, feathered legs, black skin, walnut comb, etc) except the silkied feathers? Thank you.
I have tow Cochin pullets who look the same, and are both at POL, the only difference between them is that one has more points on her comb. The one that I know is laying lays on top of a wall, (I am working on stopping her from laying there,) And today I found another Cochin egg in the nest box...
Which hen laid which egg? I think the left egg is from my Polish (first pic) and the right one from my D'uccle (second pic), but I am not sure.Thank you!
After laying her third egg, (her first egg was on Thursday, second on Friday) the comb and wattles my Cochin hen, Papaya, faded from a bright red to a dull pink. What caused this, and can I do anything to help her? Thank you.
My first chicken in a while, a Cochin, laid her first egg, but it was on top of a wall in a nest she had made. I wanted her to lay in a nest box, so when she went onto the wall to lay an egg, I moved her to a nest box and blocked off the opening so she would not get out. After an hour, she still...
I have noticed my chickens show no interest in my fava bean plants when I let them out of their run. Would this mean that if I grew them in their run, would they not eat them? (Assuming they do not step on/scratch up the sprouts) Thank you.