This isn't very urgent, I'm just a little confused... So, I have 2 hens sitting on eggs. They are in makeshift nesting boxes inside of a little cage on our back porch. The boxes are spaced about a foot and a half apart. They are each sitting on 1 egg. Yesterday, I took the hens out, and when I...
I have a hen currently sitting on some eggs. Today is day 3 and I candled the eggs to check for anything, as I don't want her sitting on a nest with no fertile eggs. The only hatching experience I have was last year, but even then, the eggs were already a week into development when I got them...
We have a ten-month-old Japanese bantam x OEGB who went broody after another hen in the flock went broody. She is sitting on 4 eggs that are hers, which are about 1 and a half inches long and an inch wide at the center. We have two roosters, one of which has a hurt leg but still tries to mate...
10 months ago, we got 4 peafowl eggs from a friend. All 4 ended up being infertile, but then our friend's peahen laid 3 more eggs. All three of those eggs were fertile, but a few days before they were supposed to hatch, the incubator broke! We had to transport the eggs to yet another place...
A few nights ago, we put a perch in our hen Baby Chick and her 3 6-week-old babies sleeping room. For the first few nights, mom and 2 of the babies slept on the perch and one of them slept on the ground (Which had shavings on it). Tonight, when Baby Chick perched, the babies started jumping at...
I have some 6 week old chicks. 1 cochin, and 2 OEGB/Japanese bantam crosses. They are really weird, and it's a bit concerning...
Strange behavior 1: The cochin is a cockerel. At only a few weeks he was trying to mount his mother, a silkie cross. He also proceeded to try and mount my knee...
My hen Baby Chick hatched out 3 chicks. one is a cochin roo. I was watching them forage, when the little cochin jumped on mom's back, grabbed her top crest, and started acting like he was mating with her! I was really surprised. I think he learned it from our adult rooster, Tuffy, who mounts...
Hello! This is a thread where I will post some stories of our flock (s) through the years, from happy to sad, chaotic to exciting moments! Our flock has changed over the years, and many beautiful birds have come and go.
I have two OEGB x JB pullets that are siblings, and one has yellow legs, and one has green ones. The specific types are Silver Duck wing OEGB, and Black JB. Any idea why they have different leg colors?
My favorite hen, Baby chick, (a 11-month-old silkie mix) hatched out three chicks 5 weeks ago. This morning when I let her and her chicks out, she went into a box of hay I had in my garage and started freaking out. I knew what she was doing, so I put some ping pong balls down because she didn't...
this rooster has been suffering for months. His eye is completely rotted out. There are maggots. There are really bad picture s. How can I kill him without blood? I'm talking like medication. Also there are no available vets.
I just want him to stop suffering😭
One day, after a baby bird we had rescued died and broke our hearts, we decided we wanted a chicken (A small one, that is.). We searched everywhere; nobody had any. This was July of last year. We asked feed stores, friends, EVERYBODY. Then, one day, we got a text from our friend. She had found a...
After 21 days of patience and a LOT of angry screeching, the hatching day for our little silkie mix is here! Around 8:30, I checked under her, to find her eggs with adorable little pips accompanied by little peeps! I can't wait for her babies (Two OEGB crosses, and 1 mystery egg) to emerge into...
I have 3 baby chicks on the way. They are being brooded by a silkie mama, and I just wanted to know if there are any tips of how to make sure they thrive/essential supplies and medications to give them.
These are three edited photos of some eggs we just candled. We got 2 Old English Silver Duckwings crossed with mystery roo, and one egg that we have no idea about!