Lolipop flew the coop yesterday with the chicks. The final count was 7 baby chicks. For a few days now they've been out during the day in the yard and at night I'd enclose them.
As we learned she came from a neighbors flock, who was happy to give her to us but it looks like Lolipop wanted to...
Thank you for responding. Chicken little didn't make it.
The chicks are about 2wks old. I've been grinding up eggs shells as grit as well as doing the same for their scratch and oatmeal.
I will start giving them eggs and putting out more water throughout the yard with the Apple Cider vinegar...
8 out of 10 chicks hatched and they have been the the mother hen and all seemed to be going well until today. The last 3 days the hen has been taking them out to free range and I've been supplementing with crushed oatmeal, banana, eggs and scratch.
This evening I found one of the birds far from...
Wow -20 is too cold for me. I grew up in NJ so I'm very familiar with the cold but now I live in the countryside of Colombia. They called it "the city of eternal spring" and the temperature never falls below 60 which is simply amazing for me.
So Lolipop doesn't have to worry about that. To my...
Sorry for the late reply. She came back like 2.5 hrs. later which concerned me for the eggs and her but thankfully she was ok. I have since got her hay to make her more comfortable and she immediately started accommodating herself with it. I don't know when the chicks will hatch but I can't...
I noticed around 1pm that she left the eggs and hasn't returned yet. I'm a lil worried about it. I felt a few of the eggs and they were warm. What should I do if she doesn't return?
All the advice is helpful. I'd def like to make her my own so @pyxis tomorrow I'm going to start getting hay or something (maybe dry grass there's a lot around me) to put in there with her. I'll probably put it in there to aside and see if she organizes it, if not I'll intervine. In the...
Thanks for replying. I don't know anything about her. We found her by accident yesterday looking around the back of our house. She was hiding behind some things against the wall of the house. I do think the eggs may possibly be fertilized because I hear a rooster around.
The space is too small...
Hi. I don't raise chickens so I'm completely inexperience as to what's happening. Through reading, I've gathered that this hen which we found hiding in the back of our house is brooding. Sometimes the chickens from other houses come to our house and hang out. We've always welcomed them but keep...