Recent content by Vicky2479

Hi all, I need quick advice about some chicks I have hatching, I have them in a bator and was wondering if I 1 - move the hatched ones to another bator while the rest hatch 2 - leave them where they are 3 - put them straight in the brooder box as they hatch and dry The first one hatched about...

Hi everyone,I need some opinions on what to do, here is the deal I bought 6 cochin eggs (they are very hard to get here so was really excited) only 5 survived the trip through the mail so I put them under my broody hen 20 days ago BUT she started to break the eggs then she decided to quit half...

I need some help quick, I put 5 cochin eggs under a hen on Sunday, I just went into the coop to check on here and saw 1 egg out on the floor covered on yolk so I checked under her and there is only 3 left, 2 of which are also covered in yolk, I am thinking she ate one, would they still be ok...

I clip both wings on all my birds, I tried just doing one and still had them up in the neighbours tree. I also noticed them using the nest boxes to get up to the roof of the coop so moved the coop away from fences. As for the run, mine gets so muddy after a few days of rain and stinky too so I...

She is a silver laced Wyandotte x barnaveler

i have only had Orps for a few weeks and i got mine as full grown birds but i love them, they seem to be very quiet and easy going, only 1 has started laying and i have had 3 eggs so far in the last week. i plan on getting some eggs come spring and hatching some more. But they are big as you...

thankyou, i am so in love with them, especially the blue one. i got them from a breeder and am waiting till spring to order some eggs from another breeder but i need to wait till someone goes broody and it is still too cold here, only about half of my girls have started laying again. They are a...

please ignore the poop, as of 3 days ago it has been vacant and havent had time to go clean it. but this pic is about the best to show you how big she is compared to the coop, on the left is the nest boxes and on the right you can just see the pop door frame, the way she is standing her head is...

there looks to only be 1 roost in there? i think you will be ok for a little while but once they are fully grown there wont be enough room for them in there even just a night, here is another pic of my hen in front of mine and i can try to get one of her in the night quarters if you give me 10...

Hi everyone, i am finally able to join the ORP club with my 2 new girls they splash is called Peppa but i haven't come up with just the right name for the blue one yet. :)

i realise she is not buff but that blue hen is fully grown, the second pic is her squeezed in the part under the night quarters (she did that all by herself :) ) the orps are HUGE birds, my 2 are easliy the biggest in my yard and niether are fully feathered atm due to moult. as a second coop to...

Well quite honestly, for 2 full grown orps and a welsummer it might be abit of a squeeze, I have one very similar and I now use it for a broody hen and her chicks when I have them, I have taken a few pics with one of my Orpington hens in it but its a new phone and I haven't worked out how to get...

Have you already bought this coop?

I have 2 coops, one is very closed in and used in winter, the other is much more open and used in summer. The summer one, they all get on the roosts no problem, the winter coop, some make it up on the roosts but most end up on the floor unless I go out and turn the light on, as soon as I do that...

I have 6 standard size hens and 3 bantam hens, it is still winter here and 3 of my big girls are new and not laying yet and 1 Banty is still not laying again after stopping for winter, so I have 5 laying atm and am getting 3-4 a day. When all are laying I am expecting 7-8 a day. Breeds I have 2...