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Thank you. My Orpington went broody but then something came and attached her. Only cared about eating her eggs though. Trying again with a dog crate inside the coop.
So 2 weeks covered and turning every 3 days and then chanching it to another bin and start again for it to have oxygen from time to time got it mine is moist with a strong smell to it i started it 3/4 days ago Turning 1 time a day and adding water to it it became darker in color ❤
I have 6 Cornish Cross hens that are 22 weeks old and just wondering, do you think the speckled Sussex would be a good rooster for them to breed? The hens are extra large so the rooster. Needs to be able to mount them without hurting them…
the sad thing is that some people don't know how to take care of them.recently,my mom found baby chicks in the middle of the road on her way to pick me ad my siblings up from school. she thinks someone got them for Easter but then didn't wanna do the work,so they dumped them.my mom rushed us into the car after school and we looked for the chicks. one of our neighbors has chicks,so she said that if we found them,she would take them to her house.it makes me mad more than words can express that someone would do this. we didn't find them,but my mom posted about it on social media and we found out that someone picked them up!
The only information I can find about silkies, is not to get them wet. Hair dryers have been around for at least 100 years. Why would someone get a bird wet and not dry it? Why cant the common knowledge say to bathe the bird and keep dry, instead of saying NEVER get wet? And how could I, a 41 year old man, not know if feathers can be cleaned with water. I've seen ducks in oil spills, but ducks are waterproof, and no one uses dish soap on a bird unless there's been an oil spill, right? Our education system has failed me.
silkies can't dry as fast as other birds so they can get cold very quickly that's why it's good to have a dry place they can go when it rains. yes ofc you can bathe a silkie as long as you dry it with a towel or blow dryer
we have 4 commercial breeder layer chicken houses having 10,000 hens and 900 roosters, they are in the houses for around 9 month's. last week they caught all 4 flocks. there are wood shavings in the middle of the houses and left and right side are rased slats, under the slats are piles of litter which will be cleaned out soon along with the floor shavings. we are planning to put the shavings and litter on the grass fields to improve growth for hay, i want to use the chicken litter in the garden but i know it would be to strong for plants now. can i have the shavings and litter dumped in piles and let it sit there a season before using it in the garden.
I apologize for not answering this sooner. Yes, you can have the shavings/litter dumped in piles, let them sit, and mature. Ideally, you would cover it from the rain, but it is not inherently necessary. You may also want to contact your local county extension agent or NRCS office to check for any regulations you need to follow (if you are in the USA).
I have questions. 1) my rooster mounts but he only stays for a few seconds. I grew up on the farm and the rooster, ahem, seemed to take his time, if you know what I mean… even if that meant ripping most the hens feathers out of her neck. He grabs ahold but, he sure doesn’t stay long. He’s a bit older… I’m curious if he’s going to get the job done. Next, how do I know if a broody hen is laying on fertilized eggs? I hate to keep eggs laying out there for 3 weeks to go bad for no real reason. My childhood farm didn’t have a coop. The hens laid wherever they felt safe and stayed on the clutch wherever that was. Most years we found out how many chicks there were when we saw them following mama in the barn yard. Last question, (no promises on that) when do I allow the hen to brood? I have a few that don’t act like they want to get off now but, it’s still too cold for chicks outside where I am. Fifty degrees is a super nice day and it was 35 degrees most of yesterday (50 the day before). Your help is appreciated!
Hey, Chickens normally mate within 3-5 seconds. Roosters that take longer are more associated with aggressive behavior versus getting the job done. The only way to know if your hen is laying fertilized eggs is to let her incubate them for around 10 days and candle them to see if there is an embryo. You should wait until summer to allow her to brood, chicks will survive better when the weather is warmer... lets say when the temps are above 80F Hope this helps!
@@GKGPoultry it does help. You cause me another question tho. I have raised chicks for years. I just have bought them instead of having a hen do the work. I have always kept them inside under the heat lamp until it stayed above 70 degrees outside at night. That puts me in May typically. Those chicks (April chicks) start laying in September and give us our eggs each winter. If I wait until 80 degrees to allow a broody hen to hatch… it would be July b4 I’d have chicks. That would put them into December at the earliest to start laying. Am I risking them not laying until spring if I do that? Our winters are very cold.
@@gamgamdabest8327 I apologize for the late response. Yes you can hatch chicks out when it's in the 70's. They will just stay under the hen ore to keep warm
I keep reading that bantam hens are at risk of being injured by a standard large size rooster.. I am hoping you might disagree as my chickens absolutely love free ranging and don’t want to separate them.. as it would mean that some will be in a coup. My Cornish Cross roosters are just beginning to mount my bantams, roosters are 13 months old…. Hens are about 18 months old. I do have 7 Cornish Cross hens but the bantams are easier for them to mount it would seem…even though they’re definitely trying to mount the Cornish Cross hens….I have 2 roosters but haven’t decided yet which one to keep.
Do u know a good seller and shipper, that ships to the U.S. ? I have 4 now 3 that lay brown and 1 golden. I want to add a Maran and an Easter Egger to my flock and possibly a Barred Rock too... still continuing on with all of my research. I want a Maran / Marans (s silent I know 😉) to be my very next chicken. They are so beautiful and docile from what I'm learning. I do in fact need to research more on the Easter Eggers i do know that. Of course like others, i love their beautiful eggs... such a plus. Anyway your flock look all so very healthy, hqppy and beautiful. 🙌😃
It's very cold here in Mississippi now. We have her in brooding pen alone with 12 eggs. She is a silky. She hasn't sat on her eggs. Any other suggestions 🤔!
What sound/call does the Ameraucana hen make? We have just one of these birds, given to us by someone who has left the area. She appears healthy apart from having no feathers on her neck, which has red but healthy looking skin. Almost every day she starts up a long drawn -out call that sounds as though she is in distress, going on for five or six minutes before stopping and getting on with her day with our other hens. Could this be the normal type of call these Ameraucanas make?
Not sure if you responded to comments: we use sand in our coop so we go in each morning with a cat litter scoop then put it on top of the compost pile which is mostly leaves, the chickens scratch at it and about once a week we turn the pile. Well now that I need to allow time for the compost to turn before spring I’ve started putting the manure in 5 gal buckets. Since it’s in buckets im not sure how to make it cold fertilizer now. Will it turn on its own? Should I fill it half & half with water? Do I need to leave a head space to allow the bucket to burp? Could I just make it its own compost pile & let it get dry & dusty help please 🤷♂️
Hey, these are my two suggestions. You could continue putting the scooped manure in the bucket and mix it with a little carbon material (leaves, sawdust, pine shavings etc.). This will basically act like a small enclosed compost pile. This will also not stink, adding straight manure or adding water to it will make it stink. Or you can do what we do and make a second compost pile while the first one is maturing. If it gets too dry, you can always add a small amount of water to it.
