Congratulations!Hi everyone! I've had a very busy past few years, hence the lack of participation. I've just recently completed my master's degree in poultry science with a focus in laying hen nutrition, so that's what I've been up to! I'm happy to have accepted employment in a position that will allow me to keep backyard hens without compromising commercial operations' biosecurity. So hopefully I'll be on a bit more discussing our backyard chickens!
Good luck with her hatch!
Still kicking is good. Good luck with your issue.
It is good to see you here!
It is good to see you here!Had been doing great until this weekend. We had extremely heavy rains last night and something (fox, likely) was able to dig through the mud up under the chicken wire we'd buried underground around the coop and run. All of our five new chicks are gone. They were getting too big for the brooder so we'd just moved them into the coop Saturday. We didn't do our research on how to integrate them with our three remaining hens (two Orps and one Plymouth) and I think that contributed to the situation. The big girls were pestering them and the young ones were sticking really close to the edge of the run. They didn't figure out how to go up into the coop at night.
Just sad times. And feeling guilty.
We'd like to try again with three new chicks. Looking into which breeds would do well with the ones we already have. Also reinforcing the walls of the run. When is a good age to introduce the young chicks to the adults? We don't really have the ability to add a new coop nearby to do the "see, but don't touch" method I've been reading about.
Thanks for any advice!
Thank you!
, and somehow a silky rooster fertilized our australop hen believe it or not. Then that little huzzy hid in the chicken coop and hatched out three of the ugliest babies you've ever seen. We call them the derp triplets.
