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It started with both silkie hens, at the same time. They both have 6 guinea eggs and are even sharing a nesting box. Now it is broodies everywhere! One hen has 6 chicken eggs, Buff has 8 duck eggs, Blondie has 24 guinea eggs (not her first time ) and I placed 18 guinea eggs under another hen...

Oooh! I had to google what they looked like and I shouldn't have. I want them! I know that DH is going to say NO! It isnt even that far really. Google even stated they are good ornamental birds for farms..I have a farm. There is a large flock of wild turkeys that live in our shelter belt. I...

Arthur is almost a week old. After he got under the fence and into the soybean stubble, his mom decided that he wasnt hers. No amount of forcing & using headgates could convince her otherwise. DH finally gave us last night and we brought him here.

I have one dozen silkie eggs for sale. The stock is white, black and buff. Shipping is included in final price.

All winter the hens were locked up and dutifully layed in the nesting boxes. A few weeks into free ranging around the farm, they were still using the nesting boxes. But now some of hens have decided the haystack in the barn in the perferred place. Now, today I found eggs in the cat boxes. I...

After all the new hatches and trading last year, I ended up with 8 roosters. My poor hens were getting bald backs and necks. I dread getting the roosters butchered, it is the worst part of raising chickens. A dear friend of mine offered to do the deed, so yesterday morning we rounded up the 5...

http://www.kpho.com/news/22609878/detail.html A faithful dog kept a 3-year-old girl warm in freezing temperatures when she was lost overnight, authorities said. Victoria Bensch wandered away from her home at about 4:30 p.m. Thursday; on Friday morning, a medic in a Department of Public Safety...

I ended up with too many silkie roosters. He needs a home! $7 OBO

My hen was setting on 10 eggs that were due to hatch this past weekend. I checked her progress and noticed that some of the eggs were crushed flat under her...killing the fully developed chick. I removed those 3. One chick hatched no problem, the egg broke cracked open and the chick was free...

Sad to say but I have no use for this guy. I can't ship so the buyer must live near me...SE ND. Is there anyone interested in this little beauty. He is about 18-20wks old.

Interesting info on hatching guinea eggs. I had 10 or so guinea eggs left over that didnt hatch the 1st. I had a hen hatching guinea eggs at the same time so I took the eggs out of the bator and put under the hen. She hatched a few more of her "own" guinea eggs and then quit setting. That left...

I am missing two of the prettier BLRW, one SLW and one RIR. I think the BLRW were probably roosters and the other two were pullets. The new black aust were left alone as my other mixed breeds. I shut the gate on the coop each night but leave the doors open. The birds are all roosting and if an...

A friend has been calving all summer. He moved his cows out to pasture and a few days later found this little girl without her mom. He didnt find any cows bawling for her baby, so he figured she must have been a twin. He didnt want the responsibility of bottle feeding and was venting in the...

This area is near the coop and behind the old corn crib, in the shelterbelt. The chickens just love this area. They spend lots of lots of time there, especially when its hot out. These are some of my new chickens from MMM that came in early April My sweet roo Albie, he is almost 2 and from...

Are wafers universal?

When do Polish chickens start getting their top hat? Mine are almost three months old and have yet to get the long head feathers. Contacted MMM this morning. They didnt send the Polish, the hatch was bad that day. They are Silver Laced Wyondottes.....at least they go with the RLBW...

My hen is not well. Yesterday I sequestered from the rest. She was not acting normal. I noticed she was straining and kept opening her mouth like she was gasping. I checked her bottom--not knowing what I was looking for anyway--where her vent is (horizontal opening) it keeps opening and closing...

A friend of mine is thinking of getting two goats and has a few questions. I had one so many years ago that i cant answer them. 1--Will goats chew on her new cedar deck? 2--Will they get in her pool? (above ground has a deck on it) She is thinking of allowing the goats free access to her yard...

I am sitting here thinking, I hear chirping, my eggs aren't due yet. I check the planner on the desk. Thinking they are really early, not till next week, the 23rd is when I am to remove the turner. OMG, today is the 23rd! Geez I am really off today. Inhale, exhale, inhale, exhale.. the...

Yesterday I found a dead "something" by the coop. It was not the usual flicker tail gopher. Lizzy the great huntress is always back in that corner of the farm hunting. When DH got home he confirmed the "something" was a weasle. Not for sure which cat got it, but my money is on Lizzy. She is...