A few days ago we recieved Midget White turkey poults ! We were having trouble with the hatch (only one hatched. All the others died before the hatch.) Now we have three poults. We have two bins with broiler chicks in them. We have the poults in one of the bins.
On this thread I would like to...
Well a dog has killed and taken our chickens 3 or 4 times this being the 4th time. This morning I was thawing the nipple waterer for bantam coop and I had forgotten to close the gate and after I came back 4 or 5 of the chickens had gotten out so I just left the gate open so the birds would get...
First of all I WILL NOT POST PHOTOS HERE. Okay last night we put out three 2 and 3 week old chicks out in our mini coop with some much older chicks and then this morning we found two them dead and bloody (one had it's throat pulled out ). Those stupid (older) chicks! now I'm going to post angry...
We have been incubating duck and chicken eggs and they are finally hatching! We are hatching indian runner ducks. I can't remember what breeds of chicken we had hatched. here are some pictures:
The first duckling!
The same duckling (standing)
The same duckling with one chick we...
Okay I should have posted sooner but it never came to mind; We are using an incubater for the first time, the eggs are supposed to hatch in a week or so. I saw a Buckeye egg in the incubater that had some yellowish goop on it, we took that egg out and candled it all we could see was a small air...
WOW! It's so cool that our Golden Laced Wyandotte is going broody . I know it's cold but we hope they will hatch, she's sitting on 5 eggs. She's a very stuborn hen. Hope eggs hatch!
Our new cuckoo maran just laid her first egg . Her name is Cooky Cookie . Here is a picture of her egg (it's the darkest egg) and two of the Jersey Giant's eggs.
Today is our 4 rhode island red/comet mix birthday's! . They're 5 months old today (10/19/2010 is today). The 3 hens should start laying soon. the fourth 1 is a rooster he is already crowing (quietly).