Every morning i love waking up and looking out my kitchen window and seeing my ladies in the morning light talking away and my roo roo screaming to wake everyone up. Sadly xmas morning I got up and did the usual only all I seen were feathers everywhere And then the bodies of all 15 of my girls...
They are 2 to 3 weeks old. They are getting wing feathers but still have lots of fluff. The baby that is hurt is the smallest of all iI and it is a diff breed the others seem taller and getting feathers faster. Mom is a silver laced wyandotte this is her first time being a momma we got her as a...
I had a momma hatch eggs so exciting well they are a couple weeks old . I just went out to check on them and the smallest baby has been pecked to where her whole back is showing i quickly took it out of cage
What do I do. but then I noticed momma is attacking other chicks esp when they try to...
Wow he is beautiful. My broody hatched diff eggs so I have no clue what they are but I have a little black one that looks like them. But his feet are black and white.
Thank you for your help. I ended up having to help the chick out. Then momma started pecking at her. I watched for a bit and she kept watching the chick like it was an alien and actually moved away from it. Since it was really late and iI you want to leave the chick unattended for too long i...
Well kids had been getting eggs and I seen my girl out a few times a day so didn't think anything about it well then she was in the box and I decided to look under her and she was hiding eggs. It was about a week ago. I candled them and the eggs looked almost full so I get the broody be too...
So the other day I noticed silver laced went broody. Well excitingly I heard little peeps an egg is hatching!!! My question the chick has the shell almost gone but the white it still on her is this normal. She is still chirping and trying to get out
I'm curious I have no clue what day my broody hens are on with her eggs I didn't realize I had a broody hen since kids check for eggs and I had seen her out every day. So last week I decided to look under her and she looks like an egg hoarder lol. I looked at a couple of the eggs and I could...
Ok I have no clue what i'm doing lol I've only had chickens for a couple years and never had one turn broody. Ok so here is the situation. In Feb. I got a silver laced whyandot so she is about 6 to 7 months old well alot of times the kids collect the eggs so no need for me to check their boxes...
Thank you! You are exactly right everyone has their own reasons for why they have these amazing creatures as well as what they can set as their own limit financially that's not for anyone else to judge. Myself for example I love my chicks like no other and even they are sick I do everything in...
KIND OF A LONG EXPLANATION BUT I WANTED TO GIVE YOU ALL THE DETAIL. When my first round of chicks were old enough to be put outside(we have terrible winters) initially we had bought a normal coop (or you could make a little house for them very easily they aren't picky) which I kept in my garage...
Yes I have read this it was one of the main stories with great pics that confirmed my roo had frostbite and to get him to the vet. He had come this far can't give up now.
Thank you for being kind. When last spoken with vet . Good tissue was growing so we were waiting it out. He said normal it will fall off and then the work begins. I'm willing to try anything. This has weighed heavy on my mind and last night he got to me he looked defeated. Today is a new...
This past summer my other roo was attacked by my hens I'm honestly not sure why, but it was so bad by the time i got home from work the poor guy had a quarter size hole in his head I could see his skull it almost made me sick. Then he had no eyes i thought by God they picked his eyes out. So...