how did the hatch go? How many chicks? sorry i know im a little late replying i havent been on for a while haha. sounds like your roo is pretty good with the hens. My rooster greets me at the gate and flies up, lets me pet him then jumps down so i can let him and the hens and ducks out. He was...
be careful with your roo..... um my bantam/aracauna grabs onto the hens and holds until they pull away - i might have to get rid of him anyway though GOOD LUCK with the 40 hatchlings are you using an incubator??? or no? i just love little chicks lol its to cold at the moment and after being...
lol my dog chases the hens!
lol my dog is just like oh look more things to chase
hi i no this is late but my broody just went in the dog crate or as close to one as posible LOL id try keep her with the hens tho i seperated my hen-a-bator and she got cross and wouldnt sit on the eggs so be...
its ok dont worry every day up until hatch day my hens got of the eggs for roughly an hour and only 1 didnt hatch and another died (somehow) i no lots of ppl have probably answered this already but oh well and my hen was off this morning in the freezing and i brought an egg inside and it...
you could try putting a chick under her to raise i know it means 3-4 weeks of no eggs but it could break her - our hen was broody for 4 months and then we gave her eggs she is 7 days along and happy. is your silkie a good broody as in does she let you look underneath her and still go back to the...
hey guys! we have a dog crate that is 1 and 1/2 meters long and 1 meter high and we move her food and water to one end so she gets up to excersise her muscles and she tips her food over and just scratches in it - also we give her poridge and anything nutritional if y'all heard what else they get...
so eciting - my austra whites were hatchery birds and we went away and came back to 2 broody hens and one that had gotten out (we found her dead a couple of days later but she suvived for awhile) my hens hatched 13/15 eggs and we ended up with 9 roosters and 4 hens lol so typical...! also our...
its amazing how they know - but my hen daffodil went broody and had about 15 guinea fowl eggs under her but we took 6 while she was getting food and put them in the incubator, they were falling out of the nest, also she is 5 days today then again its winter but no one plz dont inform me that...
wow! thats great - how long has she been broody, how many eggs were under her? my hen lets me pick her up and she still goes back on them lol Good Luck
GREAT JOB! we are in autumn and my hen is broody so shes got eggs but well she gets off them and goes outside and doesnt go back instead she goes in the coop and the eggs go cold so we are incubating some but you did REALLY WELL
thanks - she is eating at the moment i put a bowl of veggies and wheat infront of her plus some sardines and she seems ok also it might have only been 3 weeks but im unsure so now im officially worried that she might die
fingers crossed she makes it - im making a thread to get more help aswell...