Just what i needed another "rooster". So i have a hen that has started crowing which i know is not that uncommon for the dominate hen to go all roosterfied when theirs no rooster.So i wouldn't be concerned except for the fact that I have FIVE roosters!! And she is in the bottom of the pecking...
Hi! I just got a red shouldered Yokahama chick straight run is it a boy or girl?? I can't sex my own chicks. Either way is fine with me whether boy or girl, they are B-E-U-T-I-F-U-L!! Its such a sweetheart too! She loves to cuddle!
Here he/she is!
Also is this normal?? She has...
I just candled to day (day 2.5) and all but two have veins!! After reading about hatching rates in hatched eggs i was expecting like three to develop! I was SOOOO excited when i candled today! Oh also they all arrived in perfect shape... not one crack with two extra eggs included! So excited...
Hello everyone, I would just like to take a moment to remember my Fiona who passed two days ago on February 18th at two years old. She was my fitting and show bird for two years and got reserved champion at the fair last year and was the most gorgeous, panic prone, noisy, stubbornly broody...
I'm not sure if this is the right section for this but i was wondering if anyone bred them or knew anyone who does? my sisters b-days coming up and i think i might want to get her one i DO NOT want hatching eggs though... and i would prefer a started hen.
Thanks,
Maddie
Okay me and my mother are obsessed with this! We have been brainstorming chicken sayings for like a year! Lets keep posting new ones and see how many we come up with! I'lle start: I feel so "cooped up" in this house.
Okay I'm actually crying as I'm writing this, so here's the deal I have a big old Rhode island leghorn mix hen and a silkie rooster and they have been fighting for the last two months ( the hen was the leader) and a yesterday she spent the whole day in the coop and i thought she might be getting...
Hi! I have four young hens i bought from a fair That have just reached the point of lay. When i brought them home i noticed one had a "cold"(Runny nose)... But it was just a little chick much younger than the other three and it had just made a friend so i didn't separate it I'm now very much...
So heres the deal i had 6 old english and 3 polish eggs in a incubator. and 3 old english hatched on day 22 but now we're going into day 23 and not even a peep from the polish:(. Is this normal?
P.S We thought it might be the size difference (because the old english are bantams) and it might...
Hi! I am hatching nine eggs that are due to hatch in three days... And i can't think of a single name! Any ideas? (there polish and Old English)
Thanks
Maddie