I am looking for some barnevelder hens,chicks,pullets....I have a beautiful roo looking for some girls of his own type....he has some other girlfriends....he was supposed to be a girl.....mary...I also would consider eggs....have some coming in April...but I would like some sooner. mary
I have several birds that have gotten too cold earlier in Dec.....record cold and snow where it does not happen, one hen got a foot literally frozen...she got stuck under the coop...when I counted fluffy butts...noticed one missing and found her...she has resided in the house for about 2 1/2...
I had 2 buckeyes hatch from my first batch....my eldest daughter started to make French toast with about 1/2 of the eggs! these hatched out as yellow chicks with a bit of mottled brown and now have developed the barring on the wings. I have 7 buckeyes hatch from a different breeder, these are...
I live in washington state...so it rains and rains and rains. I have tarps on the side that the heavy rains come in, and more than half the runs covered....some places are dry...but water seeps in from surrounding areas. This will be my first winter with chickens. I positioned the runs with...
I have chicks I think the oldest is about 6-7 weeks, currently in garage. It will get to about 29 at the lowest until Chritsmas, with many nights in upper 30's, daytime 45-55 typically. Record low is about 7, but typical winter maximum low is about 23-25. Rare that we have frozen water until...
I have a red sex link hen that hasn't been herself for about 1 1/2 days....I did move her from another pen as she was outgowing her roomates which were much younger. I built a new pen and all the birds were mine but in different pens then I added this one. I did have to struggle to chase/catch...
I came home from work and wondered what had died in my house. An egg exploded in the incubator and fouled some eggs...do I wash those with real goo, wipe them or what...
I have a chick that needed help out, another chick pecked a large vein when it was half in half out. It bled a lot...that was 48 hours ago. Now it will eat and drink from my hand, feathers all sticky (had been covered in blood) but too weak to walk...one touch and it chirps is heart out a real...
I messed up somehow most of my earlier hatch, out of 40 eggs 4 chicks still living and they are doing well. My daughters had picked speckled sussex, lavender auracanas, and lavender orpingtons...well I never had lavender eggs, haven't found any. But can not seem to get speckled sussex, keep...
My last hatch went bad, only one spontaneous chick at day 23-24 I rescued some that had piped after several piped ones had died in the shell. I've heard so much back and forth on humidity. The room I use has 60% humidity typically....so that would be my base point. It appears my barnevelder...
:(My eggs a about 5 day 23 and another 10 are day 21. All of the eggs were candled with definate movement on day 19 when place in my hovabator which I'm using as a hatcher. I do have 3 very dark eggs on day 21....but I am not positive on these, I can see an airspace but not a hole lot else...I...
I have some chicks in their own coop/run They range from 12 weeks to 9 weeks in age, I lost one of 14. 3-4 weeks ago looked trampled...had had a severe thunderstorm...cleaned everthing. Then today one of the 4 buff orphington chicks was fine eating and drinking and active....this one can get...