Yesterday my Buff Brahma Bantam attacked her almost 2 week old chick. She hatched this chick out but I noticed that whenever the baby would start peeping she would freak out and act like her baby was a predator. For the most part she was a really good momma except when baby started peeping...
I was just out in the coop checking on my broody's and one of the hens has an egg under her that appears to have been stepped on by her. The membrane is not broken and I can hear the baby cheeping inside. What do I do????
I have a broody hen that has been sitting on 4 eggs, originally had 6 but 2 of them were clearly clear. She is in one of the nest boxes so the other hens kept laying in there. I was afraid to move her because I was afraid she would abandon the eggs. Anyway, long story short...one of the eggs...
We just had to cull a hen this morning because of her being egg bound and tonight I have another one. She just started acting strange tonight and when I picked her up I can feel 2 very hard lumps in her abdomen. What do I do or is it even possible to get them to pass 2 eggs? I currently have...
Quick question...My daughter has turkeys that are brooding eggs and they have had 5 hatch but for some reason the mommas have started killing the babies as they hatch. We took the remaining eggs away from them and I currently have them under my broody hens (chickens). If they are viable eggs...
I was just wondering if anyone has ever had CX chicks that have one or two black feathers in their wings? I noticed when I got this batch that a couple of them appeared to have black spots on their backs but now I have about 4 or so (that I can tell) that have a little black feather in their...
Today my order of 74 Jumbo Cornish Cross + 2 extra, 6 Americauna + 1 extra and a surprise chick arrived from McMurrey Hatchery. All of the babies are eating and drinking and seem to be healthy and active. I'm going to keep this as a log of my expenses for my meatbirds.
Expenses...