I have 4 adult hens and one rooster, i incubated and hatched 9 chicks and at 3 months out them outside in their own pen and coop, which had one area that is connected with the adults pen, after two weeks i was able to open up and connected the pens to one another and they get along fine the...
I just do it for eggs and to keep the ticks away. It's also fun! On chick actualy helped it out of its shell and pulled it out. Was amazing, it seems to be fitting in fine. Just is very interesting.
11 of 15 hatched and the last one which was a day or so behind has an eye that looks undeveloped. you can tell theres an eye there but only has a tiny pen tip sized spot that you can see eye. it cant blink has no lids but looks to have a tiny tiny part of the lower lid the rest is all together...
(1) i have been using backyard chickens for a few months now and am in love with it! ive had chickens since spring, and last couple months have built an incubator and hatched 11 of 15 eggs!! one egg was a double yolk and hatched one chick (and a yolk), and one chick has only one eye
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