I saw a possum tonight under an old pallet house where my young pullets used to live. Something had been pulling their chicken feeder off its perch. Years ago I had several kills inside my old chicken coop where the predator has obviously eaten the chicken meal inside the coop. Until I saw the...
It's my first time hatching eggs in an incubator. I started 27 eggs on 4/12 from my backyard flock. I have two 3 yr old RIR roosters, 9 BPR hens 2 years old, and 3 Cinnamon Queen hens 2 years old. I bought the RIR from Meyer Hatchery in 2019 and the Barred Rock hens from Ideal Poultry in 2020...
I have 5 guineas 2 years old, 3 females and 2 males. They are free range but know where home is. They have been roosting above the open pen where they were raised.
One of the females was missing for a month now returned with one keet.
It has been raised in the wild by its mom. She flew at me...