This little lady is suppose to be an Americana, but as she's gotten older I'm not to sure. She is one of the first birds I ever hatched and I wasn't sure she was going to make it, but I'm so glad she did. She is the friendlest bird I have. Everytime someone comes to the coop with a bowl, she...
This is Mother Hen and her adopted brood of Americanas. I think this picture is so cute, I had to share with everyone. This picture was taken this past spring when I had to move her and her babies out of the main coop.
This was my surprise Easter egger rooster, Hawk. I got him thinking I was getting a hen when he was younger, then all of a sudden he started crowing. I'm not sure how old he is, but I sure do love him and he is so very friendly. My daughter named him Hawk because of his coloring.
Its the oddest thing. They are starting to turn gray near the roots and its a hit or miss. Not all of his feathers are doing it. I did forget to say that I've had him sine he hatched last spring.
I know why yours have curled. Somewhere in there family tree is a frizzle. When a bird mates...
Does anyone know why my chickens feathers are starting to lose their color? I'm thinking it might be his diet, but I don't know what he is missing to fix the problem. I buy country acres feed and chicken scratch along with oyster shells. They stay cooped up except the weekends. What am I...
I went ahead and candled them last night and found that 2 out of the 4 I have left have a chick inside. I got all the eggs on 3/29 and all were incubated a week later all at the same time. I was going to give the other 2 that haven't hatched till this weekend. All the others hatched this past...
I started out with 12 eggs to hatch. I split up the bunch and let my mom hen try to hatch 6 while I hatched 6 in my incubator. One in the incubator turned out to not be fertile and mom hen kicked on out because it died in the egg. She ended up with 4 hatching and I ended up with only 2, but...