Thank you, I love her too. She is four months old, and the sweetest little girl ever. I paid $40 for her without a second thought lol. The sweet lady I bought her from was in tears and I felt awful for her, but when she can have chickens again I will be giving her some babies. Your silkies are...
Just purchased this awesome little pullet, I've never seen one like her. She is a silver pencilled sizzle. The parents where a silkie over a sizzle. No idea what colour they were but I do know she is the only one they had with this colouring in the entire flock.
I'm hoping someone on here with...
Just jumping in, we found an old galvanized Brower incubator so I decided to go for it with a test hatch. It worked perfectly, and just hatched out a bunch of healthy Marans chicks. It heated evenly, (I had a thermometer set up at the height of the egg) humidity was fine and all but one hatched...
Our old hen just died this past summer and was 14 years old. She laid two eggs in the last month of her life. She didn't have grey feathers but her legs looked pretty gnarly...
Just getting into this and have four hens. Two are Rhode Island Red, one splash Marans and one black copper Marans. I want to add to the flock by incubating some eggs, and choosing the best boy for the job. Based on my limited knowledge and research, my best bet is to stick with a black copper...
We have a 14 year old rescue hen that has started laying about 1 or 2 eggs a week. ( she must be happy!) she ate the first few, as she probably has had to over the years for nutritional reasons but has stopped now and leaving them alone. Is there any reason why we shouldn't eat the eggs? She is...
I doubt it's a drake feather your seeing at that age, now you may be able to tell by picking each up, ducks will quack loudly drake will be raspy quack. And sometimes the drake will still chirp when the duck is already quacking
[/quote. I have two girls from the same hatch but one starting...
We only have the three girls, no intentions on any males in the mix. I may get one more hen. We watched them very closely for the first week. No problems at all, but the run is very large so they all have their own space. The three nap together in a little circle but basically ignore each other...
I am 100 percent positive of her age as she belonged to my husbands elderly uncle. She came from a generations of semi wild flock that had free ranged on his farm for decades. She's the last one left, He just couldn't look after her properly any longer. And if you mean her "hocks" well they look...
I should also mention that the three get along very well. The first day hen "Judith" was let out, ducks "Ping and Pong" sat on top of her lol. But since then they have just become family
We rescued this girl from deplorable conditions, although she was being fed and watered, she was all alone on a manure caked floor and pretty exposed to the elements. We kept her in quarantine for four weeks and she is now living happily in a large grassy pen with our two female ducks. Lots if...
Thanks all, I just feel like the meanest person ever, but today was much better. I went out for an hour and when I came back Ping and Pong were happily nibbling away at clover and having a great ol' time. We have gone to great lengths to make a secure pen and hutch which they will be closed in...
I have two pekin ducklings about five weeks old. I have raised them in the house and they have become very attached to me. I have been putting them in their run during nice days while I am home to keep an eye on them. The problem is, anytime I go out of their line of sight they literally panic...
My two new babies that the feed store said were golden hybrids but clearly are two adorable Pekins. Got a nice run built for them to go outside but they panic when I leave them in it. Guess we will have to work on that slowly :)