Every young and old chicken needs a good role model, some one they admire and strive to follow in their foot steps. She fears some are setting their goals too...
My incubator is calling me....I have a collection of eggs from my two Polish girls, Poof and Sugar, plus some banty eggs which MAY contain some eggs from our...
... that it ... Poor babies would be bewildered, then traumatized. "Peple EAT chikins?!???!" Rhodie the duck says, scratching his poof with his webbed foot. ...
Speaking of ordering chicks, today I was in the TSC store and surprised that they sell baby chicks. RRI were $1.54 and others up $2.34. Isn't that cheaper...
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Mar 2, 2007 3:41 am
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I've been hearing some whispers coming from incubator as well. Zonell the_velvet_sparrow <velvetsparrow@...> wrote: My incubator is calling me....I...
By being repeat, large volume, wholesale customers, the hatcheries charge them less for chickens. Cockerels and straight run are less than pullets. TSC and...
I got the bug.... I don't have an incubator, and the girls are barely laying since they got all stressed out by the snow and ice, and anyway I don't think...
Me. I just put four eggs under my broody hen, and another 5 in my bator. But stupid me, I put the eggs UPSIDEDOWN! I know better. Well most of the eggs seem...
Hi, I'm Patrick and I keep Serama bantams in my home in Lexington Kentucky USA. If you want to hatch some chicks, get a hen that's from a very broody breed....
Yes, silkies are very broody. I thought this was charming, and was excited when my first hen went broody. I couldn't wait for her to hatch eggs. But I'm...
I TOTALLY have the hatching bug right now! Unfortunately my bantams don't have the laying bug! The chickens I don't have in breeding pens are laying like crazy...
... From: wanikki@... Date: Mar 2, 2007 9:56 To: Subj: RE: [housechickens] Intro, hatching... Yes, silkies are very broody. I thought this was charming,...
Anyone else here raise Serama bantams? They are the perfect house chickens: tiny, people-friendly and can hatch out any color! I'm interested in swapping...
... Lord have mercy, YES. I don't have any broody chicken hens, but I have a Muscovy who wants to be a mamma in the worst way. I had painted the walls of the...
Yup, Regina, going broody makes their poop stink worse. They're on the nest all day, and they come off just once a day to eat and drink and poop. That's a...
Broody poop has to be one of the worst smelling things in the world...Miss MoneyPenny is hatching the top of her cat carrier right now and I take her off and...
Oh yeah....worse than sewer gases! It'll clear a room in no time flat! LOL ... From: spotted_crow1066 To: housechickens@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, March 02,...
Hey Flock, I'm back. And it only took 8 months to get over this damned fungal pneumonia. Yesterday morning Barb underwent a radical, aka a bilateral and she...
Hi Florence nice to see you back and tell Barb we are all rooting for her to get better and she's in our prayers. Josh's Dr. said there was lots of problems...
Glad to see you both! :) We are also sending good thoughts your way...and personally, I see NOTHING wrong in being a chicken... Wow, I had pneumonia really...
My local feed store here in Los Angeles gets a whopping $3.50 per RIR or Barred Rock chick, 'exotics' like bantams (or anything else) command $5.00 per chick....
Oh, God in Heaven, does broody poo ever smell. Enough to peel the paint off walls and make strong men weep. Even the other chickens run away from it, and in...
No, a HERD of great dane. ... From: housechickens@yahoogroups.com [mailto:housechickens@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of the_velvet_sparrow Sent: Saturday, March...
... for her to get better and she's in our prayers. Josh's Dr. said there was lots of problems with the asthma patients this winter and also the pneumonia....