I've let the mother hens do the hatching and raising lately. They do fine, but the issue I've run into is i had one batch that only one lived to hatch date, making her a loner. Well after the mama was done with her, little by little my flock turned on her and try to kill her off...
My coop
Is infested in something
But it’s something that’s so tiny I can’t see it and doesn’t effect my chickens ( they look normal act normal lay normal no marks on legs, no odd behavior etc)
But it must fly because it’s like a million tiny mosquito bites all o we need when I get out of there...
I had a Buff orpington setting and blah blah blah she only had one chick
This one chick was raised by her in the coop until she was about Four weeks old then the mother abandoned her it was sad and harsh her being a lonely chick but she took her pecks here and there . Then everyone turned on...
I don’t know what’s in my coop but my chickens seem fine , I haven’t examined them lately up close but no one is losing feathers or having red areas or scaly feet or legs . They all seem fine
But when I’m in there I get eaten alive by something I never see ! My bare legs are covered in itchy...
What gender is this Seven week old buff orpington chick?
this is my first Grand Chicken
I raised my girls and she hatched this one out and raised it for four weeks in the coop
Only one made it through the 21 days
So this is my special granchick
I have four ducks I have to rehome . I am worried sick
I want them to go to a duck
Lover that has a safe coop and clean water daily and room to run
I’m scared of them going to people wanting a duck dinner or an animal clipper or abuser
Please let me k ow if you know anyone close to me
I have two...
I know what they are and how they mix to become Olive eggers or Easter egger etc
What I do not know is how can I look at a bird and know if it’s a true Ameraucana or not?
To me this looks like a pullet , but I know with Americaunas you have to tell a bit differently
And I’ve been told this is a cockerel so I want to make sure
It’s 13 weeks old I didn’t get his body shot yet I will if needed
Ok a Mather hen hatched out only one baby in with the flock and we just watched her but let it be natural mostly. She took her chick out in the flock with her and always protected her . The other chickens would look curiously at her but that was it. She stayed amidst the flock day and night ...
Yesterday was day 14 actually , I have a thread talking about “ hatching with Mama” but yesterday we moved her and her eggs as directed by others , at night in darkness , to a safer area because two eggs had been broken probably from other chickens climbing in her box .
so we moved her into an...
At day 14 , I thought they were at least embryos ??
I have seven already candled and marked
And boom today I have five
I looked all under her the only thing I found was a piece of a shell
so they ate the whole baby?
why?