well heres my problem, and I may just be over thinking this. When I tired taking the eggs out yesterday, she freaked out and began scratching everything looking for them. At one point our chick got caught under her and I was nervous that she might accidentally hurt him. I don't want to put the...
They defiantly do not have a curled feather. Thats a relief to because I heard that on the off chance I had a drake and it tried to mate one of my chickens it could really hurt one of my girls *PHEW*!
Hey, sorry to bother you but I did a search on Erie PA and it said your from there? My husband and I are too, and were planning on moving back within the next year. I've been trying to look up any regulations as far as owing chickens in the city or county but I'm getting a lot of mixed...
So I'm going to use the template because Hey, why not! :)
(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? : Our chickens are a little over a year old. We got them from TSC last spring. After reading and planning for 2 years I decided to take the leap and I couldn't be happier...
I'm going to take the eggs out tonight. I got wooden eggs from the store to take their place. Just not sure how to fully take the eggs out. Mom goes CRAZY when either chick or eggs are gone. On a side note, our chick has an extra toe on each back toe. Our rooster has that on one foot so I'm...
No she's great with the chick. She run over if it lets out a distress sound and the baby is usually huddled under her wings. The problem is she has a tendency to leave the nest and stay near the chick when its wondering around. I still have bulbs from when my chickens were new, would that would...
Thats a better way to describe it, they just look like the pattern of shattered glass. Do they break more easily if they are not viable? Or is it normal for a hen to break a healthy developing egg?
So this is the first time we have had one of our girls go broody. I didn't collect eggs for a few days and we found one of our Isa Browns sitting on a LARGE amount of eggs. We decided to let her do her thing and candle the eggs in a week to make sure there were no bad ones. On Thursday I got...