Me and my husband got covid recently. During those days my daughter didn't pick eggs and a broody chicken took advantage.
Her eggs were more that half way done when I was able to go do chores again.
She hatched 3 babies and last night her 4th. Today after coming from work I found her out and...
Hello. This is so helpful. I do have a question. I have had chickens for almost 3 years. Next door neighbor loves them. And when I say loves them. He crows more than my roosters. He loves to talk to them. I also have special needs poultry (chickens and duck ) that I have rescue. Question is...
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I have a questions about missing eggs under broody ducks.
Backstory: I have 2 ducks that went broody. I will move them everyday with the chickens trying to "break" them. My daughter is in charge of picking eggs but she thought because I'm working with them to break them, I was also...
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What is the best floor you would recommend for a chicken run. In the coop I use shavings during warm weather and I switch to straw for the winter only. but my run is just dirt and it get really messy when it rains. I read about sand but I'm concern about winter time. I live in...
Chicken Math is REAL!!!!!
I wanted chickens, my boyfriend didn't. We compromised and got the rental program (2 baby chicks and 7 eggs) , so my daughter can experience the "whole" hatching process. 21 days after, we fell in love. (5 hatched) and a year after we are at 30 chickens and 3 just...
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I'm asking again They are gonna be 9 weeks tomorrow. The first one is definitely bigger than the rest and loves human cuddles. My other roosters where like this. They used to love cuddles too but they had bigger combs. I think the lady 2 are girls.
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Thank you. I guess I panicked since it was my first brooder and the temperatures inside the coop was at 15 degrees and she was holding her business from 2 to 3 days and barely ate. That's why I moved her indoors. But in will try to move her indoors like you say little by little. I do have a...
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I have a mama that hatched 3 babies exactly 8weeks ago. Yesterday, She has started to peck to one of them. But the tricky part is that I moved them indoors when she was seating on the eggs because of the very low temperatures. We are still in the low 30's and its gonna go lower next week. Is...
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We won egg cartons labels giveaway on Instagram and after trying to come up with a name with realized we do not know what kind of eggs we have. Cage free- free range - pasture raised.??? Help!
Our chickens are our pets, so we spoiled them. They eat either organic or Southern states brand...
They are in a small chicken coop that I bought in Amazon. Supposedly holds up to 5 full grown chickens. They are in my living room. And I do clean it regularly since I have shavings and they make a mess.
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We have 3 baby chickens. Approx 3 weeks old that are sneezing to much. It started over a little week ago with random sneezing but now I can hear one of them sneezing every minute and wheezing a little too. There has been a watery discharge since Friday from nose but it's clear no color...
We live in Maryland. Frederick county. We don't have bad winters but sometimes we do go below 0 especially during the night time. As for the breeds, we don't know exactly. We have 1silky for sure, 1 legbar, 1 maran, a couple of orpington/ cochin mixed and a meat bird( the white ones). The...