So this handsome boy (&& his less mature brothers) were bought at a different day time and place than by beautiful fluffy crowned Olive egger (1 of 2) so what's the chances they are the same breed? I absolutely adore my 2 olive eggers and I'm so sad I only have 2 so I'm hoping he is a them and...
I know I just feel so bad. They are all just so upset. The keets won't stop crying for the hen and the hens won't stop looking for them. I feel like a terrible person.
My two hens were sitting on 34 eggs. I was really excited to let nature do its thing and let her be the best mom she could be but after reading and reading and reading I started getting scared about the keets just dying off from predators do and being left behind by Mom so at one point I did...
While I totally agree with you The reason that I am keeping some in the incubator and then in a brooder is to limit any loss that I might have. She did not make her nest in an area where I can control the environment a lot and it's in some very thick brush I'm afraid the first time she takes...
Y'all 🤦♀️ Tell me I did not mess up too bad! Long story short, I took some of the eggs from under my guinea hen and put them in the incubator if you want to know why I can go into that but to keep things short and simple I started rotating my eggs again because I thought my timing was off...
Well I knew that eventually I did want to add one rooster into my flock definitely imagined a prettier one lol And one that would help with colored eggs but I digress these guys are super friendly friendlier than my girls anyways and they all seem to be getting along so I'm okay with it lol
I got these 3 ((guys??)) Mid may because they were marked down and the last in the bin I didn't have the heart to leave them to their rumored end. I thought at first they were roosters but now I'm not so sure. I asked fb what they thought they were and was told blue sex link but again..not...
Y'all what is going on with her feathers. I'm seriously concerned I bought an unhealthy batch of adult chickens from a lady who had a really nice set up, let them free range & I thought had healthy chickens but now I'm not so sure. I've had random issue after random issue and now I find my...
I'm wondering if I've found out what girl it was while this hand acted normal every time I seen her today this evening when I went to check on everybody she was roosting here and instead of her normal roost bar and her vent does have some mess on it.
Nope. I have no neighbors & am adamant about not using poisons! I'm at a loss. And what is stranger, my flock is still all accounted for and appearing healthy. I really expected to have a dead chicken in the coop this morning or at least an ill one.
I don't know why I just half of my comment posted but anyways yeah I guess I'll just start the whole flock on some antibiotics to try to fix this and yes definitely seems like a bad batch but thier living environment before seemed ideal. Free range huge run didn't seem over crowded but who knows...
The tannish piece you are seeing, could it be straw? I don't see anything but the straw to the right. But if it's possible there is infection going on I guess ill
I know that I know it is not an embryo. I do not have a rooster, she hasn't been around a rooster since April. It was collected the same day it was laid. So I'm the first picture of the post I can totally get on board with blood clots. But the second picture, that big round piece, the texture...
Y'all, I don't even know what to search in Google to find an idea. This ((shell-less)) egg was laid today AND I DO NOT HAVE A ROOSTER. I don't know what girl laid it. I bought 15 adult hens in April since then I have lost four hens. 1 to sour crop and 3 to internal laying. I have these girls on...
Woke up to 4 perfect fluffy keets 😍 the 3 normal colored ones are eating egg yoke already! The light colored one ((the first hatch & literally my life now haha)) is unsure and won't mess with it haha
Well I finally took the leap as we are getting ANOTHER thunderstorm tonight. And let me tell you, she is PISSED!! But she doesn't look like she'll abandon the nest, tonight anyway lol. I took an unused compost bin and put it on top of them ((it seems to be working))