As is my norm, I lept before I looked and bought 13 poults at the auction. I have no idea what type they are and they are probably crosses. Does anyone have any idea what breed/s they may be or even sightly resemble? They are about 4 1/2 weeks old. When I got them on Labor Day they were...
Ok I am a little confused. I have been doing some reading on here..(ok a LOT of reading on here) and now I am concerned that I don't have Araucana like what I was told, but have EE's instead. Not that I would really mind, but I would like to plan my marketing strategy either way. Can anyone...
We have trapped and dispatched 4 coons in the past couple weeks and I was hoping that we had thinned the herd a little. I guess not. Tonight my hubby and I went outside to go up and close the coop up and he says he saw a coon. He grabs a light and I go for the shotgun. We walk around for 45...
I went to a neighboring farm and she showed me her new chicks. she told me where she got them and I called this morning. they are being shipped in next wednesday to the feed store and I pick up my newest babies. The feed store owner asked me how many I wanted and I said 20. 20!!!!!! So I...
The electric inspector came out to the farm last week to inspect a new service we are having put in, and in one of the service boxes was a bird nest. He grabbed it and was getting ready to throw it down and I stopped him. I thought I would put them in the incubator and see what happened. 4...
I have a hen with a mild case of crooked beak. She is one of my favorites since she always comes to me and sits on my lap. This morning I was waiting for her to come over like every morning, and while I had a hen sitting on my lap, the beak was fine, maybe a tad long on the top jaw, but...
Hello everyone. Just wanted to say hi and introduce myself. We have a small 15 acre farm with 20 (so far) chickens, 12 pigs, 3 goats, an unknown number of free domestic rabbits, 2 more chicken peeps that hatched a couple weeks ago, along with some Guineans peeps, a pheasant chick with a bad...