I have an amarican game hen laying fertile eggs. Broody silkie sitting on the latest laid. Issue is the cockerel taging my game hen is a salmon flaverolle. Candled last night and they are textbook healthy day 7. But what mutant bird is gonna hatch?
Thank you. The gray hen we call Momma, because she goes broody like crazy. She likes baths a lot. Not for the water, but the hair dryer. She pitches a fit when my wife turns it off and takes her back out. I think she sleeps under the roosting bar just to get pooped on so she can get another one...
Started throwing down corn scratch for my birds now that the grass in their run is nill to none. They love it and it keeps them busy all day, but is it just me or are they burying more than they are eating? Peck, Peck, Scratch. "Hey where'd it go?" Lol. I also have the feeder for my laying mash...
Okay. Loaded down with info best i can. Could i use a rir or white leghorn rooster with the sex linked hens to produce better results? I'm six months into raising chickens and I'm not sure i will ever run out of things to study. I'd like my future generations to lay longer than two years.
Thank you. I mostly want egg production. However, I'd like any cull roosters I hatch to have something to them. I'd most likely get a my rooster from a more trusted breeder, but roosters are cheap so that's not a problem.
Here in houston texas a laying hen can coat between 25 and 40 dollars. I recently found info on a local meat farm and market selling whole chickens with the option of buying them live. For 8 dollars you get a hen. For thirteen you get a cockerel. Id love some more expert opinion on the site to...
Mine do this a lot when it comes to the weather. It can be pouring rain and miserable, but if i so much as walk by the coop their all out and after me. I always accrued it to they think I have a treat. ( I usually do) Lol.
Well Hello. I just joined myself. I don't know anything about Turkeys, but the interest is definitely there. I do however have a yard full of bantams. Silkies and Cochins and they are amazing and my wife and girls are loving them. I hope for both of us we find the same passion for the little...
Hello fellow Chicken People.
My names Matt and my wife and I with our three princesses have been enjoying our first back yard flock for about six months now. We expected eggs yes, but we did not expect the joy and tears. We didn't expect to learn so much yet have such a drive to learn even...