Everyone always advises to take the chicks and raise them in a brooder. Is it because of disease? I really like letting the hen teach chicks and poults the ways of the world. She keeps them the right temperature, shows them how and what to eat, when to hide, etc. I have another Buff Orp with 5...
You should see where I got the eggs from. A guy has them on an abandoned farm in the middle of the woods way back from the main road. I couldn't have made it back there without my 4 wheel drive vehicle.
After going down the trail for half a mile or so I came to a large clearing with a...
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It is a sad story.
When I came home from work last Thursday there was a white peachick in the run dead. It was pecked to death. I though it hatched early and the other chickens killed it. By that night 6 more chicks hatched and they looked really good and healthy. I left them under...
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Please do, where are the eggs from?
From ebay. So far 7 out of 9 have hatched and hopefully the other 2 will hatch by tomorrow. Here are the ones I bought...
I had nine eggs due to hatch tomorrow under a broody hen. I took tomorrow off from work so I could be home with them. When I come home from work today I found one peachick dead in the run and four were hatched under the hen, with two more pipped. If I had known they would hatch in 27 days I...