I am in Fayetteville North Carolina
As with Lola... She now has to silver duckwing banties as her brooder roomies. It was hysterical seeing her join them. I had to drive 3 hours to get these little guys.... I'm glad she wasn't picky of her company!
She has been eating and drinking like...
Well this is Lola all dry and fluffy. She is the sweetest little thing!
The other eggs haven't hatched... My husband was a dummy and messed with the incubator. We candled them... we have one still in there. Hopefully it hatches. If not, Lola will be a little lonely. Then we will be...
Well to make a long story short. We got our flock this summer... started out all young. My husband and I bought all of our pullets from one farm store... everything worked out. We went and got 3 from another store, and they knew nothing. We still bought 3 anyways. A few months later... we...
Well my husband and I bought 3 babies at a place 50 minutes away from our town... the emplyee didnt know what they were... or sex. SO we did a little "wives tale" test and hopefully we got all hens. They were all pecked at really bad, which made my husband and I decide we needed a few to take...
Wow, if that was me, i would have totally broken her hip! No one comes near me and my babies with shears!
Consider yourself a wayyyy better person than me!
Just as my name states, I am the new chick mama. My husband is in Iraq.. and i've been thinking of ways to keep the food bill low, yet have lot of food. So I thought chickens. Went to the family farm store, found some baby pullets, and got them. Well I just wanted one, but instead got two...