One of my babies layed a shell-less egg last spring so everyone decided to bicker over it and try and show eachother who was boss we had a couple eggs be cracked open after that, but somehow they just grew out of it.part of the problem is: My male duck protects his ladies egg (and any other...
well I guess we can all agree that were lucky were not chickens...that might screw up a lot of relationships in our life "sorry honey, I think im turning into a man!"
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they love cheerios, so cute they could be in a commercial! lol, and corn flakes, which I find funny, considering there is a chicken for a mascot
I feed em romane lettuce, watermellon (Their favorite!!), spinach (tho if its too stemmy, i pick the longer stems off) corn off the cob, and tomorrow im going to give them their first tomatoes, well see how that goes
So today I lost my baby roo, we just found out a week ago he was a roo, anyways..for a week now, i had been putting him and my 2 slighty younger hens (they were all 3 born mid to late April which makes them about 2 months old) with my 4, one year old adult hens. We had a little bickering, but...
I am so sorry for your loss These kinds of things happen, and they are awful but not our fault, thats why they are accidents, God had a different plan for her, shes up there in the coop in the sky looking down on you
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Ohh, so did you keep them in seperate dog crates? and when you introduced them, did you leave them there all night?? also:welcome its a fun group so far not much squawking! :cd lol
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Thank you for the welcome I can't put them out there when they are sleeping for the night, id be too afraid too! they'd wake up and feel violated, LOL! Thanks tho, and thats a good idea..I should get some treats! its like right now, the babies keep to their own happy corner, and then...
Nah, im pretty sure they don't Foster is not a Rooster (I can tell already, zero comb) and Foster had a tailfeather when he (she lol) was about 3 or 4 days old, all the way up.
aw congrats Ive got one exactly like the one on the right too, Foster is almost all grown up now, still a baby tho, hes getting very orangy looking, so cute tho!
Hello everyone, my name is Holly..I am the proud owner of 7 chickens, and 2 ducks. I just joined BYC, and now I have a place to go to talk about my babies without getting a bunch of weird stares
Anyways, I have a question for you all, first ill introduce everyone: My 2 ducks are Donald and...