Supposed to have a few rare breeds in this bunch of pullets from Hoover Hatchery - what say you?
Also, is the black one a cockerel or pullet? (photos 3804, 3851, 3857)
Also, there is a mutant pullet here - her lower beak is pulled to the left side and her toes are twisted and maybe too many...
This morning when I went to let the chickens out and feed/water I noticed my guineas alerting to something in the dirt beside an old dead tree stump. I looked and didn't see anything and went about my business. A few minutes later I was about to change the water right beside the guineas who...
Wade Jean/Bev Davis 7-month-old French Black Copper Marans hens (4) and roosters (2) - sold as a package. These are very healthy well-kept chickens. Pick-up only: Bandera, Texas (near San Antonio)
I just found one of my young hens (7 months) with a red ball hanging out of her vent. I did a little research on other threads and I put her in water to look closer. I could not find an opening to push the egg out through so I pushed it all back in to feel around and I don't know anything...
So, a week ago one of my silkies hatched out an egg that I put underneath her when she went broody. I also had eggs in the incubator that would hatch yesterday (a week later).
So tonight I moved the 5 one-day-old chicks from the brooder into an isolated hutch and then moved her & her week-old...
I am incubating some eggs to get pullets and I have mixed feelings about what to do with the male chicks. Is there a source that buys them? Last year I got a straight run of chicks and had to end up butchering 12 roosters when I could not even give them away
....so what do you do with yours (I...
I asked for help yesterday but got no answers - sorry to have to ask again.... INPUT, please!
My hen hatched out several guinea keets and I need to know if I can let her integrate them into the flock (she is the dominate hen), or if I should isolate her and the keets completely until they are...
My hen hatched out several guinea keets and I need to know if I can let her integrate them into the flock (she is the dominate hen), or if I should isolate her and the keets completely until they are a certain age. Right now I have her in a tote in the chicken house and the keets would not be...
I took this video last night. Sorry about the commentary (I hope it is mostly correct). I wanted my friends and family to share the experience so I wanted to explain what was going on...
I noticed Randall-Burkey sells fake dark brown eggs - does that mean that my BCM pullets should use a dark brown egg to show them where to lay, or will the white fake eggs work just as well????
I'm not sure if this is the correct area to post this question:
This is day 16 for a broody Silkie sitting on 6 eggs (she is an experienced hen, but I only bought her a couple of months ago so this is my first experience with this). At day 6, I isolated her to a portable dog kennel (24" x 32")...
I have raised a flock of seven Guineas (6 months old now). I had started noticing that they were pairing up but not sure how many males/females there were yet. This afternoon I noticed that there were 3 distinct pairs all separate from each other and one lone female. So my question is, since...
So, I have this Silkie hen in a flock of mixed hens and a couple of roosters. She stayed in the nesting box today with a couple of fake eggs under her. I removed the fake eggs and put 6 eggs underneath her (2 of them were retrieved from the fridge after a day or so).
My questions are:
1. Do...
I have a question about my BCM young rooster (7 months). We just had several severe freezes and he seems to have developed several white feather episodes. Since I am a newbie about chickens/Marans (I have alot of younger ones that I will need to cull for quality), I need to learn about feather...