Sorry, been offline for a while, school work and
drumroll please,
chick raising I, now have 4 10 week old JG chicks which are a real rarity in the uk, the population being so small no one has even thought to create a breed club for them :(. The egg in my profile pic was my first egg from my...
Hi, i have 4 almost 2 week old jersey giant chicks. Their wing feathers will soon be all through (the main flight feathers with the fluffy bit at the top of the wing) and i have noticed a significant difference between one chicks wing feathers and the feathers of the rest. The 3 other chicks...
By this do you mean its comb? If so i do not recommend it, this would be rather like cutting into you ear lobe, putting Vaseline or petroleum jelly on will stop any damage from the cold. Check out http://www.wikihow.com/Protect-Chicken-Combs-from-Winter-Cold
Ta, just checking it would be fine as im at school 6 hours a day, not to mention 1 the sometimes 1 hour+ bus rides there and back. I just dont want to be a bad chick mummy thats all. :)
I'm seriously considering getting some jersey giant chicks and need to know whether they need supervision throughout the day? If it is absolutely necessary i would have to delay my plans till the summer holiday. Is there an age where you can start leaving them as it may be possible that i can...
Hi, I'm very curious on how a chick brooder would progress in size and facilities, e.g. perches, as the chicks got older and what age they should be moved outside. How would you go about the transition from in to out? Basically a guide to the housing until there considered adults.
I'm in the...
Hi! Just got my first chooks today, five of them! There all hybrid layers and majority of their names are pending apart from 2: Doris- a Speckledy and Eddie a white star. I have 2 speckledys, one lohmann/ warren, a white star and a bluebelle; they are all pol so eggs are soon to be eggspected...