How early can a chick pip and survive? I was turning my eggs today and noticed a hole
with yellow goo running out and thought, "Oh darn a bad egg blew up". I picked it up
getting ready to throw it out then I noticed a bill and a thick membrane and fresh blood.
The chick was flooded with...
A feedstore in Huntsville called Garvins is loaded with silkies. They had 3 or 4 trays of
different colored silkies that looked pretty good, with uniform colors in each tray.
That said, I'm no silkie expert, just they looked healthy and each group of maybe 25 chicks
all looked alike like...
Has anyone ever used those light weight wooden tangerine
boxes for a nest box? My husband eats a lot of tangerines
during the winter and I would like to recycle them.
A couple of days ago I stayed out a little later than anticipated and got home
about 30 minutes after sunset. Normally my chickens get in their coop about
dusk and all is well and I locked them in for the night. The rare
night I'm late my puppy knocked the fence open and my daughter rounded up...