She's a chicken, and yes first timer but for the last three weeks she's been excellent. Water was always there although like I said they are sleeping out in the woods, maybe she wasn't taking them over there enough?
The other odd thing I realized is that I only have 7 dead babies accounted for...
This is so odd... I haven't run across this before and maybe one of you will recognize this.
Last month I got some guinea keets, 5 of them. Gave them to a broody, she was super happy about them so all was fine. Three days later, they died in the nest. I realized Broody never left the nest and...
We have a bunch of those plastic waterers with a red tray and the opaque top that screws onto the tray. I'd like to be able to fill them from the top. If I cut a hole in the top, would that ruin a vacuum or anything and prevent the water from flowing into the tray?
Me too! I'm thinking about a project that would involve me having my own line of super broody hens - kept thinking "If only there were standard size silkies!" I don't even care about conformation, since they would just be a part of the project and the end result would not be silkie, but just...
I first read about the American Bresse chicken last year and I'm seriously contemplating getting them, establishing a flock to raise for meat birds.
We raise Freedom Rangers for our family (and sell a few), and our local area will pay $3.50-$4.50 for pastured chicken. I've been reading about...
Interesting discussion! I just am now beginning my foray from backyard chicken keeping into more of a breeding mindset. I hatched out some Cream Legbars about a month ago - did half of them in the incubator and half of them I'd given to a broody hen.
She had 4 out of 4 hatch, and I had 3 out...
Oh now that's interesting! Single matings, huh. I do suppose it depends on each rooster as well. What I'm thinking is for the winter to keep hens and roos separate and then in the summertime separate them out into mobile pens. I suppose it depends on how many pullets and roos I get from my...
So I've never been interested in becoming a breeder UNTIL NOW.
I just hatched out my first batch of Cream Legbars that I got here locally and I am in love. Normally I just keep a mixed flock and be done with it, but now I'm starting to think along the lines of isolating breeds and whatnot...
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Yeah, tried that, hard to get them all in there at once. It's like they know what I'm up to and try to grab and run Maybe if I started earlier in the evening that might work before they have their minds set on roosting.
Well she's been in a box in the back room. I've been leaving the wound unbandaged so that air can get to it, and no signs of infection yet. She's acting pretty perky, too. My chickens aren't really pets so I am not going to take this bird to the vet, if she gets infected I'm going to just...
About a month ago stupid negligent me had left the coop door open and a predator came and killed a couple of my chickens I had 5, so then I ended up with 3. Ever since then, the remaining 3 will not go in the coop to roost. We have to go find them every single night when I let them out and...
I had some new hens in isolation in a (giant) dog crate in our woodshed and this morning I discovered that one of them had gotten her wing pulled cleanly off by SOMETHING. I was just about ready to combine the hens and now I will do that tonight after bedtime since I don't want to risk whatever...
I used to have 5 hens, then I lost 2 to a predator so I just got 3 new hens to replace them. They are about 18 weeks old. I have them in a big ol dog crate out in the wood shed and they have been in there separated from my other hens, who free-range.
The new hens came from a guy who was...