i had a beautiful jersey giant rooster until last night when he was attacked and killed. he was free range with a few jersey giant hens and 2 rhode island hens. he was always doing his job with the girls and he was a mellow rooster. but what i want to know is id like to incubate some eggs to get...
i have a year old buff orpington setting that was broody and is setting on 5 eggs that i know are fertile and should hatch. i checked them by candling. how long after they hatch should she start to lay eggs again?
i have a year old buff orpington setting that was broody and is setting on 5 eggs that i know are fertile and should hatch. i checked them by candling. how long after they hatch should she start to lay eggs again?
so i have 4 buff orpingtons and 2 rhode island reds that are 23 weeks and they just started laying this weekend and out of the 6 birds ive gotten 7 eggs and one was the largest egg ive ever seen. when i cracked it there were 2 yolks and the birds have been on organic feed since the day they were...
i have a male and a female harliquin they are just over 18 weeks old now. i want to know when roughly will she start to lay? when do they start to breed? how often to the hens go broody and is it all year round like chickens or is a seasonal thing like wild ducks? thank you for any help you can...
does anyone have a picture of what a buff orpington rooster looks like at 4.5 or 5 months old? i have a bird that im pretty sure is but it hasn't crowed yet.
so i had a hatching of chicks on the 4th of july in an incubator i bought some buff orpington eggs and to fill out the rest of the room i posted an add on craigslist for firtile eggs and i had 2 ladies respond but i had no idea of what breed the eggs were. so im hoping some of you might be able...
these birds are 4 months old now. one is darker yellow out of the 4. it seems to be the most dominant and has thicker legs but one of the 3 light ones is getting the tall comb and bigger wattles.
in this one you can see the hackles on the darker one its in the middle there
the one front and...
these birds are 4 months old now. one is darker yellow out of the 4. it seems to be the most dominant and has thicker legs but one of the 3 light ones is getting the tall comb and bigger wattles.
in this one you can see the hackles on the darker one its in the middle there
the one front and...
i had a chick hatch out and it has a leg that doesnt work and i cant get around. i feel bad for the little thing. what should i do? can it maybe survive?
i had a chick hatch out and it has a leg that doesnt work and i cant get around. i feel bad for the little thing. what should i do? can it maybe survive?
i bought a hovabator incubator, an egg turner, with a circulating fan, and purchased 24 fertile buff orpington eggs and put them in.
day 1 i got the eggs in the mail each wrapped in bubble rap and then packed in paper shreads inside a box took them out and put them in the incubator
day 3...
i have two 4 month old rhode island chickens and want to know how to tell a pullet from a cockral? they are both forming black tail feathers just one bird they are getting longer and curling down which im guessing is a rooster and the other has really short black tail feathers pointing upward...
im building a medium size chicken coop out of pallets and free recycled materials i have a total of $40 in the whole thing from start to when itll be finished. the first day i started with two 4ftx4ft pallets as a base then a 4ftx8ft pallet on top of them then a sheet of used 1in plywood so...