When our hens go broody we put them in a different room. they have their own food and water and they stay alone with the chicks until the chicks learn to listen to their mommy's every command. then we let them out with the others slowly.
We ordered 25 silkies (assorted) and we are having trouble deciding what colors we have. thanks for any help
Also, these two silkies are the same age, but the red one just wont grow!!! shes so sweet though. and she eats as much as the gray one. she weighs 4.0 oz. and the gray one is 9.4...
we just call it crooked foot syndrom lol.
we have one that has one crooked foot. her name is alexandria. she gets around fine. we had one before also. ive never seen one with BOTH feet crooked.
here is allie. its her left foot. as you can see, she is scratching around like a normal chicken.
pics of the three that hatched!!!!
From left: Rachael Ray and Jack's baby- Angel. Madison and Jack's baby-Princess Bella (is she going to be a splash? maybe blue?) lastly, a chipmunk looking baby. not sure of the mother. Fawkes(a silkie) is the father.
YESS! these eggs started out under a hen but we moved them to our new incubator. The pipped egg is Rachael Rays. we have already hatched two of her eggs. (Sammi and Grace) there are pics of them on here somewhere... we always seem to end up with one of her eggs. and they always hatch. but the...
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that is a good idea.
we should have done that so Sammi when he was little. we considered taping a popsicle stick to his leg from his hip down. Not sure if that would help. But its most definatly worth a try.
we have a roo that we hatched and his leg is totally crooked. it doesnt touch the ground. we felt bad for him and thought about culling him. but he is about 6 mnths now and he lives outside away from the other chickens on account that he is rather mean. he has his own doghouse next to the pen so...
Jack Sparrow (CAPTAIN Jack Sparrow that is ) bad pic. it was zoomed in all the way.
i noticed he looks very similar to someones(i cant remember their name. but its on page 2) rooster named 'Roosa'
i love your roo's color Cracker!!
i dont know why but i seem to favor the EE roo's colors they are just too pretty!! i may post a pic of my EE roo if i can find one.
great looking roo's everybody!
We have 10 barred rock girls that are 7 weeks old now. they are growing so fast! we dont have a barred rock roo, instead we have a RIR roo. so far he is looking good. we plan on making sex-links.
handsome man you have there speckledhen!
On our last order, we had our number put on the box and the post office called at 3 AM.
15 of them were dead though, all in one corner. (we think they had it in front of the air conditioner or somthing) But they should call
we used to have a BEAUTIFUL ameraucana rooster named hawkeye. he was the meanest thing! to get the eggs you would have to take a trashcan lid and a broom to keep him off.
is yours a barred rock?