We have had chickens for just over a year. Has been a great family project. Had broody hen so got fertilized eggs from a friend off his farm. She sat for 20 days and today we have 5 new baby chicks. Dont know what they are but kids are having fun. One of the five doesnt look so good. It...
I am completly redoing the back yard. I am fencing a 24'x24' section of the yard for them to have as thier own. The yard has centipede grass but the area I am moving them to is shady doesn't have much grass. I was thinking about tilling up their area and throwing some rye seed to give them...
Need help adding to established flock. Two sex links, two brahmas, one cochin. My sexlink grannychicken rules the roost. Last time i tried to add to the flock grannychicken went on the rampage. I still have some weeks left before they get out of the brooder.
I live in nortwestern fl and had about 5 to 6 eggs a day from only five chickens!!! But in the last month egg count went down to 2 or three. Have one hen that went broody so that may account for one egg a day. I have killed a corn snake recently in the back yard that was going in the direction...
I have a very broody cochin hen. Sometimes i have to pick her up and pull her off the nest. She went broody about three weeks ago. I have seen her off the nest a few times and she is eating. Im just worried that she is sitting too much. Im thinking about getting some fertlized eggs and...