I wanted to ask if anyone has or gets a d'uccle rooster and needs a good home please let me know. I have 18 full size hens and 1 porcelain d'uccle hen. I like to have 1 rooster but with my 1 bantam I want a little rooster.
Has anyone ever had a breed that didn't accept the babies?
So far I have done this with the following breeds :
Barnvelder , langshaw, Brama , Plymouth , seabright (annoying broody 5 x a year for the non setter. I had to give her away)
It has always worked for me. I think they are just so happy to be done. Have to do it at night. It is all her sister's fault she had to have chicks so now this one wants her own. Broody begets broody.
Does anyone have any 3 days or younger chicks? I have a broody barnvelder that has been sitting for 3 weeks and I need to slip her some chicks this weekend because I love her and need her to be done!!!
I have been using the smoke fire damper as well. I originally posted it. I have it on a time clock and it opens in the morning an closes at night. It works great! It operates at 120 volts
I usually give them a few so they can be moms. My problem is I really don't need any more chickens. Right now I am trying to reduce my flock. I currently have 7 Roos that need homes.
I have 2 hens brooding right now in the winter. Is this common? Does anyone have this happening right now? My non setter Seabright just had her chicks 4 months ago and is brooding again?
I have a de uccle hen. She was born in February and still has not laid an egg? All her other bantam buddies a seabright, Cochin, 2 Dutch have laid eggs and all of them went broody and they all are mamas and she has not even laid an egg? Is she hiding them somewhere?
My silkie too doesn't let one of the hens in his group? I would have thought he would have wants as many girls he could have? She is a buttercup about 3 years old and he is not a year old. she has always been around him? i only have 2 hens that are older than him and he accepts the other...
I am so sorry for your loss. I like the idea of bag of ice. Yesterday I came home and one of my girls was laying down in the water. I have the top of ok bird baths on the ground with water. I have out sprinklers programmed to come on for short periods during the day just so they can cool...