We have a Easter Egger roo. Picture from earlier this year. For hens we have Black Australorps, Gold lace wyandotte, Buff Orpingtons and another EE (Shes the left one in back. Pretty but terrible personality)
Our EE lays greenish/blue so I know which are hers but all the others lay brown.
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Its day 17 for one broody and the other is on day 15. 1 roo and 8 hens(6 if you don't count the broodies). 2 Black Australorp broodies seperated behind a divider so other hens aren't causing issues with the nests and eggs. For the past week I've noticed the flock staying inside the coop alot...
How do hens handle being broody in colder temps? We sometimes get a few coverings of snow by late October. Doesn't usually stick around till late November/December. Who knows what's in store for Michigan this year lol. Anyone have experience with their hens hatching chicks in cold temps?
We have a small pond in our new goose run maybe 100-200 gallons and I'm at a loss on how to deal with keeping clean.
Biggest problem. I can't run electricity out to it as its to far and we can't add a drain. Otherwise I would have taken the shop vac to it.
My dad told me to just run fresh...
Our geese kept our Roo in place but we moved them to a new pen and lately I've been getting warning shots from Roo. No broken skin. I'm positive it was warning shots twice. But there could have been a 3rd time.
The first time which is the possible 3rd mention I had my back turned and was...
We have 2 over a year old mating pair of geese. They've been in their own pen for probably 3 months atleast thats close to our chicken pen. And their still completely wanting back in with the chickens.
I'm very much tempted to put them in our fenced in garden during the day. It's farther away...
Our pair are getting rid of flight feathers and I picked up the bigger ones mainly because it was bugging me seeing them scattered in the pen like a crime scene lol But before I discard them was interested in finding out if anyone has ideas that they could be used for instead.
Over half our girls are bare backed. Still unsure on whether its a mite issue or a mixture of rooster damage and goose damage or all 3 but were taking actions to remedy 2 of the 3. The only issue I can't fix because my mom is kinda attached to him but is our rooster. So I was thinking chicken...
I became aware this year that Geese can infact jump. Atleast 2 feet considering our buff american goose Gizzy cleared a baby gate to terrorize a broody hen who we let hatch 2 of her goose eggs.
We always knew Gizzy could clear some heights. Shes nearly hit the side of our house and nearly...
So we sold 2 goslings today that were hatched by a broody hen and the person mentioned there was mites in the straw. Last week I checked most of the birds for mites and didn't see anything that looked like the pictures I've seen. My mom is saying to treat the coop with DE but personally I don't...
Weathers warming up and flowers blooming. Some of our hens are looking bare on their backs. But I'm suspecting more of rooster and geese damage than mites.. Were working on getting a goose pen built so it should help. Their run is almost all dirt and sand and they have some ankle breaking holes...
It started pipping yesterday at the top of the egg. Today its made a large enough hole to poke its bill out. But its been about six hours since. We can see its breathing and theres another gosling in there thats drying so it has a little friend to bump into it. I've seen some people say 3 hours...
I've read alot about broodiness and I can't help but wonder if this is a good broody or bad broody hen lol. To begin with. I didn't notice any sign of her going broody it just sorta happened that she was missing one morning and I found her in the nesting box. I gave her 2 goose eggs after one...
First ever egg incubation Started March 23rd Started with 8. #7 was for sure doing well but now I'm worried as I'm no longer seeing movement and I believe lock down starts April 17th? So I just want to know if I should continue or if their no good. My mom insisted I give #3 longer than 14 days...
We bought an almost $80 incubator for goose eggs. We started 8 goose eggs but its day 13 and I'm almost certain out of the remaining 5 only 1 is good. Our goose Gizzy is still laying eggs so I'm thinking of getting a smaller cheap incubator to use as a hatcher for the 1 egg and use our bigger to...
Were incubating our goose eggs. We were hoping she would lay a few more before we started but its been 3 days so I don't want to risk the others going bad so were doing the first 8. I started the incubation with our incubator we bought two weeks ago. However I wanted to make sure we have the...
Our Buff american goose Gizzy just laid her first egg today but tonight says its going 35 and even sometime in the few days colder temps. If she doesn't sit on the egg tonight I worry its going to freeze. Would it be okay to remove the egg tonight and put it back tomorrow? Or how do you go about...
Our Gander is being territorial as expected of mating season but our female goose today is being unusually docile. As goslings our gander was the sweet one. Today was normal our geese really wanted to free range but we've been keeping chickens locked up so I managed to let the geese out without...
We had a hawk attack today after a few months free of the last one. Our roo seems to be a scaredy chicken and just ran while our geese were sounding the alarm. But my mom says the hawk wasn't bigger than the chickens. The two that seemed to suffer the brunt of the attack is our two buff...
Our birds will be a year old this year and I have failed to get our runt Kiora to roost.
I don't know why but our light brahma as well wont roost but I think its because the runt doesn't roost.
I've only caught Kiora on a roost once during the day and twice as night but that was around...