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We ended up getting our hen an old dog jacket and cut in some wing holes. Success no more horrible wounds! Hopefully her husband, a golden heritage and her have babies. I will post pics when we get babies. I already put 4 eggs under chickens who have gone broody. They hatched ducks before so we...

We have a pair of Embdens. Last year she went broody and we let her try to hatch 12 eggs. We candled them in the night as she was way more docile then, and it was easier to see too. 5 of the eggs were duds. the other 7 grew and grew. Then 2 turned all red all of a sudden. The last 5 grew into...

We have a heritage tom with giant spurs. He really messed up our BBW hen when he bred with he the last time. Cut her to the bone. I want a cross between the two, but I can't If he kills her in the process. How can I shorten his spurs? I have read about using a hot potatoe or super gluing wire...

So our male Embden has taken a fancy to one of our female pekins. He has an Embden wife but she is sitting on a clutch right now. I caught him mounting and penetrating her. how do i discourage this behavior. They are already in seperate pens, but he escapes to get to just this one female.

So I have been checking the nest she built and finally there was this huge egg in it. The middle is from the BBW hen and the blue from my little chicken. My question is what does she and her partner need in order to do the deed. I want more geese but like all of the birds we have I want them to...

I put a few duck eggs under a roosty hen just to see what would happen. About 2 weeks after the two chicks hatched I found a duck out there. My hens tried to kill it and almost did. I brought the baby ( now named chomp) in to the house and began nursing her back to health. Chomp is still yellow...