Hello everyone. this is Sam Scotty's better half :) I am totally confused by this adorable little chick. hubby and I bought Silkie hatching eggs from a breeder and all the eggs that hatched look like Silkies with the fuzzy fur like feathers except for this sweetie. breeder has never hatch out a...
Well since the 1st hatch of silkies hit 3 weeks old and the 2nd unhatched hit 3 days in a incubator. We found the time to get started on what will be one of the hardest projects I have every tried to build.
I don't know when the idea came about, but we started researching pictures and designs...
Not so new to BYC but first time we have used a incubator. Actually our first attempt at hatching was using a broody hen. With her, in a cage in the house due to high temps, we set 14 eggs and 2 were crushed on day 2. On candling at day 16 we had movement in every egg. 6 hatched by day 22. None...
We have two roosters our my flock right now. Both were mistakes . We have ordered 10 bev davis bcm and we will be keeping the best rooster from them. The other rooster I'm leaning towards rehoming is a RIR at this time as I feel the bcm will be better for the kind of colored eggs I want to breed...
Many of you might have seen this video all over the net.
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2017/03/21/giant-chicken-video/
I think from reading that it went viral on twitter.
Anyways where in the U.S.A. can I get some chicken like that? And what do you think the coop space would be needed per...
Well after searching the last few nights I finally figured out on where our Great Pyrenees/Komondor mix, Floki will sleep. We picked him up after we lost a female yorkie, Bonnie to some coyotes last month. When we picked him up he had already been raise with other small pets, chickens and a kid...
That's Right . I was told we had 20 chicks coming around March 2016 and that I needed to build a coop. Of course this was something we had talked about for the last 2 years on and of. I guess the wife was never happy that I did not start on a coop so she figured if she ordered the chickens I...
Hello Everyone. My wife (Samantha) and I have been behind the scenes reading up. We were new to chickens in general and just received our first 20 chickens and 2 geese around one year ago. It was about August 2016 when I got interested. It was that one blue egg in the basket of all brown eggs...