Me and my daughter put decoy eggs in the boxes today when we cleaned the coop. All eight babies are very healthy they were hatched in April and I separated them from mom about 2 weeks ago. 7 pullets and 1 roo not bad!
I have two hens that are about one and a half years old. One I bought with 8 chicks she hatched and she has never layed for me in the 3 months I've had her. The other hen I have had for 2 weeks and she layed on day two and day three and nothing since! The hens also won't go in their nest boxes...
I recently attended the mother earth news fair in WA (awesome) and got a sample of manna pro for my chickens. I followed the directions on how to feed and the the next day began to loose birds. When I stopped feeding the manna pro I stopped loosing birds. Just thought I'd let everyone know and...
Flock update. All the little ones minus one are happily merged. Mom is in a seperate enclosure right beside and is freaking out! I hope I'm not traumatizing her. Also one of the indoor chicks (my prized sebright hen) is now a mean rooster! He is in a third seperate enclosure beside mom and...
My hens chicks are 10 weeks old and they still sleep under her and freak out if I separate them. Do you think if I introduce the unrelated chicks one at a time it would help?
I have a mama and her 8 chicks in my run outside and I have 6 chicks close in age to the outdoor babies inside. I tried to merge them and mama almost killed two before I could get to them. What's the best way to get them together peacefully?
Hi I'm from enumclaw WA. I currently have 2 Polish, 1 black frizzled,1 white Cochin, 1 golden sebright, 1 unknown, 1 mama red Cochin and her 8 baby Cochin/d'unccle mix babies. Haha and no more space!
Haha same thing happened to me! My husband swears he married Ellie Mae. I started out planning for 4 standard size chickens and now I have 15 bantums of various breeds. Its a healthy addiction though and a good thought for disaster prep, I agree.
Finally I have started to gather my flock after much debate and research (and mind changing)! So far I have 2 blue Polish bantums,1 black frizzled bantum, 1 golden sebright, and two unknown bantums. This weekend I'm picking up a red Cochin mama and her 8 babies! No one told me this becomes a...
Hi I am going tostart my own flock and I'm looking for breed suggestions. I would like a small bantam variety that lays decent sized eggs and is interesting tolook at.