Eek! I found her personal facebook and did the creepy thing of sending her a private message. I grew to love her podcast and started listening to the archives, and became super upset when all of a sudden the episodes disappeared! I will update on here if I hear anything back!!
The past few months I've been listening to the archives of a podcast called The Urban Chicken Podcast. The woman was a backyard chicken-keeper who had wonderful guests, great content, and was very informative. It seems like she fell off the face of the earth in 2017. My curiosity has gotten the...
The one that pipped overnight between day 17 and 18 finally zipped and is up and about! One pipped last night between day 19 and 20, and we will see where it is when I get home from work tonight! It was a beautiful all-white baby that hatched :)
Yesterday as I was preparing for lockdown, I noticed one of my silkies pipped externally. About 6 hours passed, and the chick made a hole a bit bigger. fast forward 12 hours to this morning, and there has been no progress, but the chick will still chirp if I whistle at it. Today is day 19. Is...
(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? I grew up in rural northwest Oklahoma and was able to help my aunts take care of their chickens. I was always jealous that I didn't have chicks, but now that changed! I got my first shipment of chicks in the mail a few weeks ago...
Hey there, Whitney. Have you noticed this hen laying fewer eggs? This is a condition that can happen if the ovaduct gets inflamed or infected. It causes more testosterone to be produced, and ultimately can cause a female hen to slowly gain rooster characteristics, including saddle feathers...