at the BUCK 'n RUN RANCH
My project broody hatched three chicks three weeks ago. Two disappeared without a trace. The third has been AWOL much of the time, but as of today, he is under my control! Thanks to my trusty net, he was captured, after being on the run since last night. He was brought into the house and [...]
The project and olive egger chicks are growing fast. I am ready to get them out of the brooders and into a coop. Last week I re-homed several young cockerels and emptied one of the small coops. It was a mess of course. Chickens are messy. Period. Michael helped me get it cleaned out and [...]
My first time broody hatched three chicks a couple of days ago. My seriously, one disappeared and we could not find it despite searching. Today the broody brought her two remaining babies out into the run for the first time. They spent the day learning to dust bathe, dig for bugs, and scoot under the [...]
Over the last two days we have hatched eight olive egger chicks. I am thrilled with that because they were shipped eggs, coming all the way across the country via the US Postal system. One was broken in transit so I set 11 eggs. Of those 11 eggs, 8 hatched. The three that didn’t hatch [...]
My recent hatch of chicks have put me through the wringer. Last night when I checked on them before going to bed I found them standing in water! They had somehow managed to flip the paper towel up from the corner and into the waterer. All of the water wicked out of the waterer and [...]
My project chicks, discussed in this post, are almost done hatching. Six chicks have hatched and four more are in the process. None of the eggs shipped from Florida made it to hatch. Shipping is very hard on hatching eggs. I am happy to have a 90% hatch rate with my eggs, otherwise I would [...]
I have been working on a top secret chicken project for almost a year. My F1′s, or first generation chickens were looking good. Three weeks ago the pullets started laying and I was thrilled with the egg color! I took the first dozen eggs that were laid and put them in the incubator. The [...]
Spring hatching is in full swing here at the Buck ‘n Run Ranch. I have 20 eggs on lockdown, due to hatch on Friday and 3 more to hatch on Monday. The first hatch is Crested Cream Legbars and a project I am working on. I also have a dozen olive eggers in the incubator [...]
This morning I went out to feed the animals at 7:00 a.m. I thought it strange that none of the chickens were out in the runs. As I started to enter the emu pasture, I heard a commotion. The emus were running around at the fence line between their pasture and the chicken runs. Then [...]
Yesterday I received a shipment of Cream Legbar chicks from Florida. They had been in transit for less than 24 hours. I always open boxes of chicks in the presence of a postal employee. Many sellers require confirmation from the post office of chicks arriving DOA. The postal clerk cut the zip ties connecting the [...]
– May 20, 9:59 PM
