I lost my four hens to a &^%$#! weasel earlier this month (I didn t know what it was at first, then if followed my remaining girls right into my mudroom to kill them!) Everyone says, once I have one in my yard, it is there until I manage to kill it, which is next to impossible to do. So now I...
A few days ago I went out to my barn where the winter coop is and found my littlest silkie dead in the little house. She was kind of stretched out, she wasn t eaten and there was some blood and missing feathers on the back of her neck. The other 3 girls were fine.
We thought she had just...
I have a silkie hen and am getting some day olds (salmon faverolles) in about 3 weeks. I put some plastic easter eggs from the dollar store in her cage yesterday, in hopes of making her feel more maternal, so that when the chicks come I can swap them out and get her to raise them. Is this...
I want to get 4 hens, but I wanted to get 1 each of 4 different breeds, and Performance Poultry (the only local-ish breeder of fancier chickens I know) will only do them in bigger batches, and some of them are only available straight run, and I can't have a rooster (and I'm WAY too soft to get...