We have a 3 year old female that developed a light brown halo around one eye last year. After thinking it may be a illness we watched it, but nothing further developed and we decided it was just a change in feather color surrounding her eye. But this year the other eye has developed the same...
A friend of a friend saved a quail nest (california quail I imagine, we live in WA). He hatched the eggs using a wool sweater over a heating pad expecting it not to work. They hatched Yesterday at 5am. We offered to take them. We already have chickens and ducks for pets, and have wild turkeys...
(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? This is my 2nd year with chickens (not including the couple years we had them when I was a kid)
(2) How many chickens do you have right now? I have 5. and 3 ducks
(3) What breeds do you have? I have a black sex link, an...
I have one cayuga and two swedish ducks that have been raised together since we got them in April. When they were large enough, we added them to our existing chicken flock of 3 birds. Every night my little bantam hen waits just inside the doorway to the left of the ramp. I can't figure out if...