Got a visit from the corp of engineers and long story short (insert drama here) we're now without our chickens.
I'm sad! Can I still visit here and live vicariously through y'all?
ok - they're 4 weeks old, and I think I know what some of them are, but am wondering about a few still, and trying to figure out gender. I admit, though, that for all your thicker/ thinner leg, rounded/pointy feather, bigger/pinker comb ideas, I just don't have enough experience yet to know how...
ok, i'm gonna try this photo thing again to see if I can get some help id-ing these chicks. These were a preschool science lesson, so I just ordered the assortment from meyer which included mostly brown eggs, but some other flavors as well. with the exception of darth vader (the sort of mutant...
I've had 7 babies hatch over the last 2 days (we're now on day 23)... 3 tried, but didn't make it, one is still trying. I'm happy with my 7, but am wondering about the other 16 eggs still in there... should I just keep waiting and watching? I don't hear any peeping or see any moving at all...
this is day 21 - got one baby a few minutes ago. pipped about 3 today and has only just made it's way out, but I am wondering... There are 26 more eggs, unpipped or hatched, that are now getting jostled around by the wobbly baby. Should I remove it? or try to push the eggs into one corner...