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I think it's official! The Black Beauty hen has gone broody :D I started hand feeding her treats (she's the biggest treat hog of the flock LOL) because it worked so well with my redhead and keeping her conditioned to human interaction. My black bird settles down and closes her eyes when I...

The little red chick has a toe pointed the wrong way!?! Do I need to do something or is it just unique? And it's hard to see the sixth toe & nail on the Black chick but both feet have an extra extra toe?!! But all 9 that hatched are happy and healthy 12 day olds with little poufs of fluff...

My sweet broody was LOUD when she made it clear that she would be nesting within a couple of feet of her chosen spot (see, we did manage to compromise). I tried early on to move her nest to one of the ignored nest boxes in the coop (with the ceramic egg & a couple golf balls stuffed tightly into...

She is not bobtailed, I PM'd you

I don't know anyone who doesn't live near a nuclear power plant anymore... if you ask me, Fukushima is too close :/ Cat sure can hunt though, nothing gets away. On Christmas morning she woke me up to let her in & showed me the fresh bird she'd nabbed, she held it up, spread the wings & made it...

Thanks! I've been wondering about my polydactyl chicks LOL one has SIX toes on each foot, most have five and some are shaped very strangely?!! I hope to photo them soon, but the chicks are just too quick and wiggly to get a good shot. Oddly enough we have a polydactyl cat as well, 7 toes on...

Just remember, that if you are home, or if you are away, the hatch will proceed as it is going to anyway. DON"T WORRY YOURSELF! Make sure Broody has water and food within reach of the nest. I use a 1 liter plastic drink bottle with a chicken nipple in the cap & hang it near the corner of her...

I loved every minute of hand feeding my broody girl each morning (no syringe necessary, thank goodness), sometimes a high water content fresh fruit of veggie treat later in the day. You can put a small dish at the edge of the nest. She used a 1 liter bottle with a chicken nipple in the cap all...

According to the laws of chicken math, you only have 2 chickens right now, unless one goes broody, in which case you would technically have just 1 chicken!!! I suggest picking up a few more ASAP so your girl(s) don't get lonely ! More about Chicken Math here...

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Oh my, bizarre toes! Three front toes & a back toe but some have a full second back toe & some have only a vestigial of the fifth toe, and the lil red head has two back toes on one foot & one & 1/2 on the other ?!! I haven't checked them all but the sampling was quite a surprise!

My girls first brood just hatched on the floor of the secure run. I tried early on to put her in the coop but she threw a screaming fit non-stop until I put the eggs back under the ramp :/ then she settled in and sat. About half way through I decided to basically gut & remodel the interior of...

! I'm going to count toes as soon as I click submit! Just found out that thr roo is a silkie bantam, everyone has feathered feet LOL

2 pips on due day (6-1-14) and 9 chicks hatched out before noon the next day (6-2-14)! Only 1 egg left to go, maybe... Already an incredible hatch rate & very well timed.

Every chick I see has different color/markings!?! Supposedly there were three different kinds of eggs in the mix lot of 10, but it looks like some seriously mixed genetics based on the 5 very different chicks I've seen so far ... I do like variety, I do.

Moms sitting tight, but three inquisitive chicks have popped out and tried water from a chicken nipple & moms yogurt, ground flax & nut meal breakfast. I'm going to scramble an egg for them before the chick starter goes into the brooder. These pipped yesterday and hatched overnight, maybe a few...

SQUEEEEEEE! Yesterday only two eggs chirped when I checked them all and I had two pips by afternoon... I checked every 15 minutes but nothing changed all day... this morning I found half a dozen fluffy chicks under mom!!! pics to follow when mom does her daily business of being off the nest...

Even my old Labrador has taken to marking daily about a foot outside the perimeter of the run, just wish the cats weren't so excited they mingle peaceably with the big birds, but they eat the smaller wild birds as often as they can. The chicks do have a cat proof zone (part of the separate...

Looks like I'm not the only one watching & waiting for the hatch (any minute now)

OhMyGosh! I have a couple wiggling chirps inside the eggs, they are due today but I expect to give a couple extra days due to having got them from someone else who refrigerated a few while waiting for the rest :/ Mom kept her nest spotless! I have work to do over the next week to prepare the...