Hey so our broody hen became a momma today. She hatched our very first chick on the farm.
Question: She has one duck egg, that's close to hatching day now. Will she continue to sit on it till hatch time?
If we remove the chick & place it w our ones in the inside tote brooder (almost a week...
I have been hatching chicks for at least a week now, through scattered hatch dates. Today I had three chicks hatch fine and 2 more are pipped. But when I looked closely at the third I noticed it has a little bit of a blood bulge around the area where the umbilical cord disconnected. I think I...
Oh my...we are taking over care of 2 roosters and 5 hens. They are laying and we’re new to chickens. We haven’t had any hens laying yet. We’ve only started from chicks. We need to move the coop and chickens over to our yard. We currently have a 5 mo old “nice” rooster. We also have 4 7mo old...