My favorite go-to phrase concerning this whole chicken business, is that it’s all a crap shoot.
I haven’t had my chicks for long before they go to a new home, and haven’t had chicks with mamas amongst the rest of a flock. That is a scary proposition for me, but I may see how it goes with my...
Oh yes, I’ve moved a broody out of her box several times in the last couple days! But the one I moved to the apartment was in a plastic bin thing from the dollar store, I just lifted the whole bin, with her in it, and placed it in the “coop” (I think an old rabbit house). She bolted out and...
I’ve been amazed how quickly chicks adapt in a run/coop with mama. I just moved a broody and her eggs into a separate area I call the apartment, because all the boxes in the coop are filled with broodys. I did this with the last batch, and those babies were wild, all over the place, but always...
Hey, there you go! Work smarter, not harder😂
I’ve got 4 Cemani eggs in the bator from someone I swapped with, I think 5 days left for them, then moving 10-12 chicks a couple months old going into their new home tomorrow. I’m turning the machines off after these, I need to go camping! 🏕️
Hey, who doesn’t love talking about their chickens/eggs? I’ve actually got 16 pheasant eggs in lockdown (don’t ask how that happened), several broodys, and one wanna be broody whose eggs I just had to pitch. What a fun crazy 😜