Recent content by Jada22

I had a similar looking chick who I believe is a polish cross. This is her as an adult

Welcome! Is it possible to put some sort of screening over the pond? Or maybe a ramp out would help. I haven’t had quail near a pond or anything deep enough to drown in but my quail do enter every bowl of water they can get to (I give extra to try and keep some clean) They also panic easily...

I’m not very experienced but the first egg looks around 3/4 days while the second looks more 7/8 days to me.

How sweet ❤️

Very informative thank you! Do you think ducks attract predators more than chickens? I’ve never had issues with predators despite having foxes nearby. I have feral cats who hang out with the chickens a lot and I also have dogs, indoors but they bark when anything comes near. Not sure if the...

We are thinking of getting ducks possibly just 2? Hoping they’d be good for slug control. Tell me all about them. What are they like? We have a pond but would likely need to line it to keep the water clean as it’s very muddy, it’s essentially just a big hole in the ground. They would be...

Cloth towels washed in a cycle with no detergent, no drier sheets. Nothing new used on heat plate. And nothing at all in the room! Yes I’ve used separate thermometers and hygrometers but not running at all times so unless the temperature spiked at some point? I’ll try vitamins in the...

I had 2 chicks die today- both became very weak around the same time, one had been laying down looking lifeless and the other was sitting hunched over looking unwell. They were fine 1-2 hours before this. I removed both as they were being pushed around a bit. They had no interest in food or...

I have 5 raised beds covered in weevils. One of the beds was used for strawberries, I pulled the strawberry plants up and picked the larvae off and washed all the plants to repot. Unsure how to get rid of the weevil problem? It’s a lot of infested soil. Nematodes are really hard to get here. And...

Thanks for that. Puts me at ease a little. Seems to be 10 developing eggs under her!

My polish hen has been missing a few days- she has a habit of escaping her enclosure but usually chills with the cats, when going to get firewood today we found her! She is under that tarp (where we keep the firewood) sitting on eggs and the eggs look to be around the 5 day mark. She already...

she’s a chicken not a duck. Maybe I should have specified. The eggs she lays would be about the same size as the eggs I’d be buying to put under her. I’m just not sure how many is a good number

I have a small Pekin hen that’s after going broody. She’s stealing eggs from my other hens. I want to swap out the eggs as I’m unsure if they are fertile and even if they are they’d likely be mixed breed. How many bantam sized eggs could she sit on? I’m looking at buying polish eggs. If I left...

It’s non medicated. They were out of molt and had plenty time off at the time of this post. I changed to chick crumb although that’s becoming hard to get recently. I have had an increase in lay unsure if it’s due to time of year change in feed or something else.

Interesting for sure but yes not really a problem as there’s no air quality concerns. I wonder does it do any harm to them to have the extra protein or is it easily excreted