Hope you guys are still interested and I don't kill the thread. I've got a question. Hatched some eggs this spring I got from a member here. They were brown eggs from barred rock hens crossed with black amer. roo. Also hatched pure black, and blue amer. eggs. Four of the brown eggs hatched, two...
Hi everyone, I have some ?'s I hope y'all can help me with. I hatched some shipped eggs this spring. Some of them were black ameracauna roo over barred rock hens. Four of these hatched. Two of those are barred roosters. Pretty definite about them. Question is about the other 2. I looked up the...
hey folks, just have a question? Those of you who have trouble with feather picking, do you free range or are they confined? Don't mean to upset anyone I'm just curious. I've never fed anything but purina, and now i am wondering. I always just thought some waste was inevitable:/. This year egg...
I waited 4 years with a mixed flock of EE, wyandottes,production reds,austrolorps and most recently welsummers and barred rocks. Now finally 1 of my year old austrolorps and then 1 of the year old barred rocks went broody for me,...after buying an incubator and hatching some shipped eggs:rolleyes:.
Need to know how old. Any chance you have a barred rock in the mix? My mutts are only about three weeks old but I have some that I think will look like that. The roo is half barred rock and I think the other half is austrolorp but could be silver laced wyandotte, the hens are austrolorp, silver...
Hi, had a tough time wording subject line I'm looking for search phrases for my problem. I feel sure someone else has done this but not coming up with good search parameters. I had a hen go broody. She hatched 5 of them then quit the rest. I'm pretty sure because of developmental stage...
Hi Detali, I just had the same thing happen. She will eventually eat. I did give mine water with a kids medicine doser,but I don't think she really needed it. I gave her some dry cat food that she did eat after awhile. I'm sure there are also other posts in the search section. I would look for...
Hey there Adorable, Good luck with your chickie. I just went through the same thing. Mine was the last egg from a broody that I put in the bator then had really just about given up on when it started peeping. DH heard it before I did, then it was another 24 hours or so before it pipped and then...
Update!! It made it out of the egg!! Long tough hatch but seems strong. Broody has about a week with her older chicks, do you think she might still take care of it? Thanks for the replies.
Hi all, I had a broody finally after 4 years of waiting!!! Yay!!! Well she did o.k. hatched 5 of 12. I knew they had been laid over at least several days so when she lost interest in the remaining eggs in favor of her already hatched and incredibly cute chicks I figured I'd pop a few of the...
Interesting question, hope someone can give you some help. I'd like to know what other folks do for diagnosing sickness also. i've read in
Mother Earth News about sending eggs for testing nutritional values, can't rember off hand where they sent them though.
Good luck!
Hi All, Hope this is in the right place. I have a hen who seems to be broody but only for about the past week. she has moved from nest box to nest box like she's trying them out. Finally today and yesterday she seems to have settled on one. I'm concerned though ,she seems to have a pale comb and...
Seems like I saw another post on here said something about parent stock for golden comet and red star possibly being the same? Anybody remember that post?
just want some input. Want to be sure it's bad before I check development. Had one egg stick to the turner, I got it loose but it has tiny yellow dots on it. No smell that I can smell through the shell, any one with experience with this or will it be so bad I should just chuck it . I have not...