I raised these for my fish but with fish you have to crush the heads of the worms so they don't chew through the fish's gut.
My question is do I have to do this for my chickens?
I LOVE this breed. As a first time chicken owner I started out with 6 TS buff chicks. I managed to pick 5 girls and 1 boy. I found a home for the boy and kept my girls. Well needless to say the following Spring I hatched my first English Orpington who turned out to be a Buff roo on Super Bowl...
I just got my 3 Roman Tufted goslings on Friday. 2 girls and 1 boy. First time raising geese. I have English Orpingtons and Red Dorking chickens with a few ducks. Will be following this to make sure things go well with Ralph, Alice and Trixie.
So I just came up to go to bed and did my nightly check on the eggs and to my surprise one Dorking egg and the Cochin/Buff Orp egg have pipped! A every now and then there is a chirp! This is day 19! Now I won't be able to sleep!
Lockdown initiated, 72 hours and counting! 11 Red Dorking, 1 Olive Egger/Orpington cross and 1 Cochin/Orpington cross. Candles all and have 12 babies cruising around but the darkest egg can't even see in. Can't wait till Friday!
my hen decided to hatch out some kids about 5 weeks ago. Had no clue she was even sitting until I got a picture from my husband of the proud new mom and the just hatched babies. She waited all day for someone to come home so she could show them off.
Set 15 Red Dorking eggs (Did not think my roo was doing his job) well he was! Out of 15 I have 11 set to hatch on the 10th. I threw in one Olive Egged x English lemon Buff Orpington and 1 Cochin x English Lemon Buff Orpington. Lock down is on Tuesday!
I like them to but not being able to enjoy the pond that's different. I think we'll bring the back hoe home and dig out the creek maybe they'll go down there. We have a lot of land to bring back under control after it being left to do it's thing for 10 years.
Here in Trumbull County you are allowed to shake their eggs but I would have to call fish and game regarding chasing. This pair makes their nest or did in the past by smashing the cattails down off shore until there was a lovely big mound and then she laid her eggs. I figured by riding the 4...
The farm we bought sat empty for 10 years until last summer when we moved in. The same pair of geese come to the pond every year and raise their family. I don't want to harm them and I don't want to wreck their nest once they build it but someone has to give. I was told by a couple of people...
The Canadians won't let us enjoy the pond. I was hoping by removing the overpopulated cattails they would leave but nope. Plus the other species of ducks that are starting to show up are constantly chased until they leave. I thought about sending my dogs down to chase the geese but I don't want...
I'm still working on getting Geese with the husband. Lol we have a resident pair of Canadians on the pond and we really don't want them down there. I was also thinking about swans. I know they do a good job of keeping those off ponds.
My four scovies. Turned out 2 boys (Wilbur and Dudley) and 2 girls. Having a harder time naming the girls. I think they are around 9 weeks old but that's me figuring I've had them 8 weeks and figured they were at least a week old when I got them. A lady at the local feed mill gave them to me...