i got my fuzzy butts on March 1, 6 light Brahmas, 6 pullet mix. All the pics i found online of light Brahmas look dark mine are white with dark wings? any idea on the mix breed pullets?
top is pullet mix
bottom is light Brahma?
I lost my rooster on DEC 28 to a neighbors dog, i saved what eggs i had left (8) and one of my hens went broody on them. she gave up with only a few days left til hatch and i am devastated. with the addition of a larger coop i really need some fettered friends to fill the coop and the void in my...
my broody hen has been sitting on 8 eggs for 18 days, this morning i went out to the coop to collect some eggs for breakfast and she was in a different nesting box. there was a hen on the eggs just not the broody hen, my broody was in a nest box with only 1 egg in it? what happened!? did she...
my broody hen has been sitting on 8 eggs for 18 days, this morning i went out to the coop to collect some eggs for breakfast and she was in a different nesting box. there was a hen on the eggs just not the broody hen, my broody was in a nest box with only 1 egg in it? what happened!? did she...
so i live out in the country but i sill have a neighbor bout 200yds down the road. he has a big husky dog that has killed both my rosters, my dog is a 85lb female German Shepherd. She will let him walk right up to the coop during the day and not do a thing. What breed dog is a good flock...
ok so my new years day hatch was a success with a broody hen. Being winter i have 5 chicks in house inside a brooder. I live in north Alabama so the winters aren't usually that harsh. I only have one run and coop, (for now) so when is a good time to put the chicks out with the flock? and how do...
ok so the other day i noticed one of my hens was sitting on a couple of eggs, so i gathered up all the eggs of the day (10) and put them under her. today when i got off work at 5pm i checked on her and the eggs. she was not sitting on the eggs but she was in the coop, all the eggs felt very...
ok so i was wanting to further populate my coop, i was up to 10 eggs in a nest box and was expecting a hen to go broody any day. well this morning i checked the coop and the heat lamp was shot and the coop temp gauge went down to 28F! if the eggs froze are they still viable? or should i just eat...