My 3 yo bantam cochin hasn't been feeling well for a few days.
I found her just sitting in the yard, keeping to herself. When I picked her up, I inspected her vent and found broken egg membranes hanging out. I tried to get it all out but couldn't. I've been watching her ever since and...
I have 5 MF bantam cochins for sale. I hatched them from birds I got originally from Lynne at Wingshadows Hacienda (wwmicasa1)... I have a hatching addiction and my yard is seriously overrun with chickens. I want them but I just can't keep them.
There are 4 pullets and 1 cockerel. You...
I need to sell this pullet... We have too many chickens. She recently started laying and gives us about 5 eggs per week so far and should become a very prolific layer of large off-white eggs. She is a cross between Maria Hall's Jersey Giants and Trader Joe's Chickens (hatched from eggs I bought...
I have been hatching like crazy and have lots of little cockerels to get rid of... and a few pullets.
I just cannot remember when everyone hatched but I have several different batches of chicks between 4-8 weeks old...
My cockerel is a mille fleur project bantam cochin over a red frizzled...
I have a few chicks from a Jersey Giant Roo over hens hatched from store-bought fertile eggs (leghorn crosses probably).
What kind of egg production do you think I will get from these chicks?
Will they be as reliable as the leghorns?
I am thinking the eggs will be a very light brown...
Any...
My friend and I would like to trade someone 6-8 eggs to set around January 15th.
Here is what we can offer:
I have mille fleur bantam cochin project cockerels over mille fleur bantam cochin pullets, a red bantam cochin frizzled hen, and a white bantam cochin frizzled hen. I actually have...
I have five pullets for sale. They hatched the end of May, so they are 5 months old and probably ready to start laying in 4-6 weeks.
Two are Jersey Giants (splash and black). Two are Olive Eggers (americana+cuckoo maran -- one black and one blue in color) and should lay eggs with a dark green...
I have two gorgeous BLRW cockerels that I hatched out on March 10. The eggs came from a breeder in Little Rock, CA. They are absolutely gorgeous little boys. I simply adore them. They come running to me when they see me or hear my voice. And I am looking for a good home to send them to. I cannot...
Hi everyone,
I hatched out 4 (probably 5) roos from eggs I bought from Lynne... Every single baby was a boy! I am hoping one is a pullet but I am not holding my breath. These guys are so tame, so loving, so wonderful BUT I CAN'T keep roosters where I live. Otherwise I would keep every single...
I just now took out two of the trays from my automatic egg turner and set the eggs in them instead of using an egg carton for lockdown...
Is this a bad idea?
I have never hatched this way before. I have always just laid the eggs on their sides in the bator at lockdown.
Any advice on either...
I have hatched three batches of eggs and I have set them all around 7pm or so.
For my new batch, I did it differently and set them at 8am Saturday the 10th...
I can't decide when exactly day 18 is and when day 21 is...
When should I expect them to start hatching?
HELP!
I need to find a home for my handsome boys. They are from Maria Hall's stock and were hatched on New Year's Day. I would absolutely love to keep them but I am not supposed to have roosters where I live. They free range all day and I just want to find them a good home where they will be...
I bought mealworms to feed my girls and i when I was feeding the pullets I hatched from Trader Joe's eggs, I noticed one of them can't seem to see properly.
I put a mealworm on the ground for her to get and she kept pecking the ground about 2 inches in front of the worm. Several times she did...
21 days will be Thursday the 11th at 9pm.
I am broadcasting live because it makes things so much more exciting and fun....
This is my THIRD hatch of 2010... Somebody stop me!
I even bought MORE TJ eggs for my broody hen to hatch out for me!!! But that is another story...
Starting Thursday...
I have 5 JG babies... I made nest boxes the other day and the hens love them... started laying in them today but the JG went in there and attacked the egg. I do have decoy eggs in there too but they went for the real egg I didn't even know was in there.
What do I do to stop this?
They free...
I love these two but the rooster's crowing is getting out of hand since I live in an area where roosters are not allowed. I would keep the hen but they are completely inseparable. One cries terribly if their partner is taken away so I think it is mean to separate them.
They free range in our...
PIPS!!???!!
I am hatching out Trader Joes Eggs.... see this thread
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=3531368#p3531368
First pips were Monday around 1pm.
First hatch was Tuesday around 7:30 am.
I still have lots of pips but I think I need to get some of those chicks...