Posts by volchick

Quote:Originally Posted by azygous My first thought would be that her death immediately following the dowsing by the hose was purely coincidental, and you certainly shouldn't blame it for her death. Chickens get rained on all the...

I was hoping it wasn't disease, but I guess if it was I can say that at least I don't have many left to lose... We had a flock of 10; then a few weeks ago the neighbor girl came over to play with my dd. After she left I was about to go...

bump... Any thoughts?

I had a hen that died last night. Yesterday she was fine until the late afternoon when my 6yo accidentally got her wet with the waterhose. She didn't want to move after that and my dd put her in her wagon with some food. She tucked her...

I'm going to let mama raise them. And yeah, I thought it might just be yolk sac at first, too. But now I'm sure it wasn't. There were all different colors of stuff hanging out, some looked like yellow yolk sac and some like strings and...

Ahhh... I see...

I'm raising chicks for the first time so I don't have much to offer except that I've read not to give them layer feed until they are at the point of lay because it has too much calcium and can damage their systems...I don't know what it...

Yeah, after I posted that I went back over to the incubating and hatching page. There is a thread there called "how to cull?" or something like that. Anyway, at the time I read it that is what someone had suggested to me, but...

We have five chicks that all hatched on different days so right now I'm calling them Thursday, Friday, Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday. I'm thinking for boys... Popeye, Zax, Harland Sanders, Kenny Rogers, or Truett My kids and husband named...

Thanks... I checked on the babe a few minutes ago and it still had stuff hanging out. Not only that but it smelled horrible, like rotten meat. So I know it's a hopeless cause. I would have given up on it before now, but I told my dd I...