Does anyone know of a breed that I grows fast but can still breed? i would like to have my own breeding stock of meaties so I don't have to buy chicks anymore! And I love incubating!
Wow i am on week 3 with my meaties and they are sooo ugly! I know that the 3 week point for regular chicks is their akward time, but wow are the meat chicks way worse! My chicks are growing so fast that they can't feather in fast enough so they are all pink! And boy are they lazy! I thought...
On one side of my bator it's 3 degrees hotter than the other side what the heck! I think I found out why my hatches suck! Should I just put the highest side up to 100 then rotate the eggs every day?
Well I am borrow a buck for my girls and one of the is finally ready to breed! He is a really big Boer goat and i have 3 nubian does. I went out to feed the chickens some scraps and the billy goat is all rubbing sweetly on my doe and she is doing the same back to him. It is so cute! They are...
I am not sure of the genetics of the EE breed, but I got a white EE roo this year and i was wanting to breed him with my white EE hen. Am I going to get all white chicks? I think those would sell really well if so!
I have WAY to many broody hens right now so i just push them aside and grab their eggs and thow them off the nest. Well today when i was going in to grab eggs one of the hens pecked me and broke the skin and now i have a hickey/bruise! How else am i supposed to get their eggs that they are...
I went in my coop today with my kids (5, 2 1/2) and somehow the hook on the other side of the door slid just right and found it's home to LOCK the door and so there we were locked in my own chicken coop!! My kids had to crawl through the chicken door to walk around and let me out! Crazy hu? ha...
Today is day 10 and for some strange reason i went in and looked at my incubator and the temp said 108! i started candling and 10 were already dead and there were 9 still moving so i kept the lid off and cooled the eggs and now i am checking the bator every half hour.... i was so excited...
Well first of all my husband and I are in the military and I just left to go to florida for a month and he calls me the night before last and told me that we had a slaughter in the coop. We have NEVER had any problems neither has my neighbors, so we let our chickens free range and we don't lock...
I have 30 chickens in the yard and i just put 35 eggs in the incubator and i have 18 on the way. Why can't I stop trying to get more chickens!!! My husband said that this is my way of making him build me another coop! Well maybe it is! ha ha
so i was in the coop when my hen laid this egg. we have noticed a couple of soft shell eggs so we got some oyster shell. well i held this egg up to the light and couldn't really see the yoke very good so i opened it and this is what the yoke looked like!
what is wrong with my hen?
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A friend of mine swears by this for her sexlinks. She faces the hens towards her then she fluffs their butt feathers, and they come back for more! She doesn't have a roo and her girls lay really well. So I decided to try that with my RIR's and they do the squat and then walk away and fluff...
If you breed a cuckoo marans with say a BO what will the babies be like? What about sexlinks? I am not sure about the genetics of each. I would like to have mixed babies that lay semi dark eggs.