i have a yound silkie rooster that i have had for about 6 months or so. he has been heathly eating good and all until the last few days. his eyes are almost always closed he lays down alot just looks very tired. has a tiny bit of yellow colored liqued coming from his eyes also. not sure what is...
i have a white leghorn bantam hen that has been a mother befor always been easy to handle when broody. she started setting a few days ago in the coop i wouldnt have bothered her if it was not for other hens laying eggs on top of her. so i took her out in to another coop not to far away so she...
i have a young silkie hen she has only layed around five eggs i think if i put her in a cage with some of her eggs and a few other sometime soon do you think she will go broody or is she to young
i have 24 eggs half silkie half duck eggs in an incubator that will be hatching soon i have 20 chicks about a month old already when the ducks and chicks are put together will they get along
i had a moxture of silkies cochins and red sex link chicks all right about three weeks old in a nice warm coop in side of a shed till they got bigger well someone went in there yesterday and left the door open so the ddogs came in and got every last one of them i almost killed the dogs when i...
i have three silkies right at three months old i am new to silkies so im not sure how to sex them so i was hoping someone could help me out one is shy so i could only get pics of two
these two get a long good the one closest i think is a hen and i think is a rooster but not sure
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i mixed a black cochin hen with a red sex linked rooster so i guess not a true cochin but at a month and a half old he is all white with one or two dime size dots on it has anyone seen this befor
about a mouth ago i bought a small incubator off ebay (only will hold around three eggs) i hadtwoeggs in it and today my first chick finally came doing great looks like its gonna be a cochin thanks to all that helped me with learning how this worked
i have a few eggs in the incubator i have been candleing them every since day three i stoped turning them on day 18 i candeled them today (day21) and i can see the bubble in the top and the dark figure curled up in the middle everything looked right the whole time but i dont hear anything from...
i am about to buy some chicks and i have a couple eggs in the incubator plus a broody hen as of yesterday so i should have a constant supply of chicks. but i have never had them befor so my question is what is the best thing to put in the floor of my homemade brooder.
i have two black cochin hens two red sex link hens and a red sex link rooster. i know that the sex links will never set but i read that the cochins will. i took one of the cochins on and put her in a seprate cage to herself with 8 eggs. its avaraging about 100 degrees around here lately. i know...
after looking around and not being able to find any good setting hens i decided to buy a small incubator off ebay now for the question. i have been feeding my chickensegg layer feed i do have a rooster but will my eggs be fertil or do i need to take them off the layer food and if so how long...
i have a few pullet hens and theses things are to spoiled to set in the nest longer than it takes to lay an egg. what is the best type of hen for setting on eggs i would like to get one i can put all my eggs in with and she will set on them please help with any thing possible...
i have two hens that are laying pretty good, my questions are can i take the egg right when it is layed and incubate it and if i find an egg that was leyed earyer in the day how long can it set with out the hen laying on befor it is no good to try to incubate...