Recent content by Apags18

We’ve raised chicks and pheasants over the years and have never come across this. My dad has the brooder set up in his barn with pine shavings for the bedding (we’ve also always used these shavings as well). He had just cleaned out everything and placed new shavings just about a week before...

I wanted to share this because I had a sick chick last week and couldn’t find anything that could help me. The day before Easter (4/8) my chick started breathing more heavily and faster than the other chicks. No one else in my family noticed anything so I figured, being a nurse, I was just...

We got 11 hens and one rooster as chicks last year and have since lost our rooster to natural causes, 2 hens to a dog attack, 2 hens got hit by a car and were killed and 1 hen was injured but survived. So ours unfortunately can’t free range like we had hoped. We just built a run and we have a...

Hi everyone! I have a problem with one of my hens and hoping I can get some suggestions! One of our buff hens was found by my dad about 8-10 feet from the road unable to put weight on her legs. I had seen her just and hour and a half earlier with the other hens and she was completely normal...

Thanks! Here is another photo of him. They move so much so it’s hard to get a good picture.

Thanks! I should have added that I was talking about the one on the left! But that’s what we are thinking too! Thanks again!

We purchased 4 straight run buff Orpington chicks back in June and they are about 6-7 weeks old now. I know it could be a little too soon but one of the 4 looks like it could be a rooster. It’s feathers have grown in a little differently than the others and it is the only one with a comb that...