I have hatched out 3 baby eBay geese. First of all let me say I LOVE them!! They are nothing like baby chicks! They have so much personality and actually enjoy being with you and interacting with people. They are about 3 weeks old now and I hope I am raising them right. They sleep in the...
Okay in the top pic here are two of my Wheaten Marans. I think they are both roo's because see the wheaten in the 2nd pic. I think that's a hen so I figured teh darker ones were Roo's... but the one in the front doesn't have roo looking wattles. Also the one in the front has feathers on his...
Okay the first one here care with my Murray McMurray order as my free rare chick. Was the most loud moth chick ever and screamed like I he was terrified anytime I picked him/her up.
I know it's a Bantam and has feathered legs. Approx 7 weeks old.
Okay I have two of these guys...
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I have had chickens for about 3 years now.
The first year went well. Nearly all my store bought chickens grew up with no problem.
The second year I really got into silkies and incubating. I ordered eggs online and hatched them out myself. They did fine until about 8 - 16 weeks...
I have about a dozen Egyptian Fayoumi chicks that are about 6 weeks old. One of them spins. It chirps alot like maybe it's in distress and when I go feed or water she starts spinning in really fast circles. Sometimes she falls down and spins on her head.
First I thought she was injured but...
I keep my incubators in my bedroom on my dresser. I have 3 Little Giants - 2 for incubating and one I use just for hatching. Well I have guinea keets hatching right now and my kids carried a bar stool into the bedroom so they could watch. Last night about 11:30pm I turned the eggs. I moved...
I bought some keets yesterday and I hatched out some of my own. Mine look to be hatching out Pear & Pied possibly.
Does anyone know what these solid brown keets are? In this picture there is one by the feeder, one by the lavendar (correct me if that isn't lavendar) and one on the right...
I have three species hatching between now and Sunday - Guineas - Muscovy Ducks - and Silkies.
My very first Guinea of the season just hatched. This was actually the first egg I found. It was a random egg I found by the house so I stuck it in the incubator. It's Pied!
Last night the chickens started carrying on and the guineas were really telling it. I look out my bedroom window and sitting on top of my brother in law's camper was a really big owl. I think it may have been a great horned owl? I wish I had grabbed my camera! When my husband opened the back...
I bought some new babies today at "At Woods" our farm store. They buy from Ideal Poultry. These guys were in the bantam box and I haven't a clue what they are.
#1 - I got 2 of these and I am wondering if they might be Golden Sebrights? That's what I am hoping anyways.
#2 Silver...
Well I wanted to hatch duck eggs and I posted on facebook that I would like to buy some duck eggs for hatching. Well a lady in my area has Muscovies and she GAVE me 47 eggs.
They are in the incubator now and I started doing a little research on them. Apparently they take 35 days and I read...
Well I wanted to hatch duck eggs and I posted on facebook that I would like to buy some duck eggs for hatching. Well a lady in my area has Muscovies and she GAVE me 47 eggs.
They are in the incubator now and I started doing a little research on them. Apparently they take 35 days and I read...
I bought him 2 others when my Silkie hatched out her babies to see if she would adopt them. She did and it was a good thing since something happened to the others. What do you think he is? RIR? Buff Orpington?
Sorry they are a bit blurry, he wouldnt be still.
This is his "brother" and...
First it was just one silkie that disappeared. I thought something had got her, coyote, hawk, etc. until I saw her come out from under the house one day to eat. I found her nest and she hatched out 2 babies. At that time I had some game mix roosters and a Silver Laced Wyandotte so her eggs...
I love silkies and my mom bought me two chicks at her farm store yesterday. She called me to tell me that she bought me 2 Silkie chicks. I was so excited because they are hard to find around here. Anyways I picked them up today and I am not so sure they are silkies? They have top knots, they...
One of my Silkie hens is doing something a little odd. When I walk by her or get close to her she sits down. A week or so before one of my other silkies went broody she would sit down when the rooster came around so she could breed. I'm not a rooster?! I don't even have any roosters anymore...
I first tried to hatch my own guinea keets in my little giant incubator. Well I had humidity issues but I did manage to hatch 3 out of 12 guineas. Only one ended up making it because I think my kids tried to play with them and they got away. I have learned that guinea keets are much, much...
Look at this silkie baby..... I bought the egg on e-bay and they were supposed to be silkie eggs. Well it looks like a silkie but it's barred in color? Can silkies even come barred? I didn't think they could. Could she be a cross between a barred cochin and a silkie? That would be my best...
I had a staggered hatch. I was incubating my own eggs when a girl at work asked me to put some of her eggs in my incubator. I was new to this and didn't really think it through before I said okay. Well her eggs were about 7 days behind mine. Mine hatched last weekend and hers were in there...
I may have just really messed up? I was looking at my silkies that hadn't hatched yet. Well one of them pipped at the wrong end. Well I tried to help and I probably shouldnt have. I chipped away a little more so he could breathe better. He is cheeping just a little, I think he is weak...