Had 48 babies and adult chickens in the coop last night. SOMEONE forgot to shut the little chicken door. 6 alive this a.m. Don't see much wrong with most of the dead bodies laying around the yard this a.m. so am guessing they died from fright. Sigh. Soooo, trying to trap tonight but am...
Eggs were likely white leghorns and Americauna (options being leghorn, buff orpington, Americauna and RIR), the two roos that could have been baby daddy are Americauna and RIR. The picture of them by the hose, they were about 3 1/2 wks old. The ones in the grass are today and they are 4 wks old...
OK, so 2nd time trying to hatch a few eggs. Had no idea what this one particular hen was doing but she wouldn't leave the garage----I'd put her outside on the ground and she would crumble to the ground and just sit there. Then she'd try to get back into the garage to sit on the eggs. Then I...
I just had 3 eggs hatch. 1 egg was from leghorn, the other two were either from RIR or buff orpington. I have 2 roosters that could be papa----RIR or an Americauna. So far they look like a leghorn and 2 RIR's but I don't know for sure. At what point does the egg color change? Let's say they...