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I'm in Hot Springs, looking for bantam pullets. I have a Nankin rooster available, 1 year old.

I have a chick very similar and thought the same thing but have a stupid question--how on earth does a chick hatch too early? I can see an animal born early when the mother goes into labor but what causes a chick to crack its egg and head out when it's not completely ready? It has to do the...

Was curious how this turned out. I have one similar that I had to help from the egg.

I have no idea. They were purchased from a feed store three years ago.

We recently incubated a clutch of eggs and all went well except the three Columbian Wyandottes. The first pipped but made it no further. The second got about a nickel-sized hole and stopped fighting. I peeled back enough shell and membrane that it finally freed itself after several hours but...

My buff orp is in isolation. I started treating her for gleet several days ago because her butt feathers were a little messy. She had mites and I treated her for those. But she started doing the penguin shuffle, standing upright and acting uncomfortable. At first it was only on cold mornings and...

Is there a treatment for gleet flock-wide? Several of my hens have it and the individual treatments I have tried (epsom baths, monistat, banixx, yogurt, oregano, ACV) have had zero response. Is there something I can distribute to the entire flock for treatment?

Saw a one-week-old yesterday with his mouth open and wings slightly spread. I thought he was hot so I moved him away from the lamp. This morning it is clearly something else, looks like gasping for air. No rasping or rattling and still chirps. Body temp is good. What can I try? I dabbed on...

Oh, thank you, but that was a few years ago. Unfortunately we don't have ducks anymore.

A few weeks ago I thought one of my hens had developed gleet: runny poop, matted feathers, stopped flying up to roost. I've had her inside, feathers trimmed back, bathed with epsom salt, been treating with miconazole and Banixx. There is zero improvement. Her vent actually looks good, no...

My solitary Chinese goose egg is pipping. Now what? Mama is still on the nest she built in the back of my chicken coop. Once this hatches will I need to move them to isolation? I have a mobile tractor I can put them in to keep them on grass, but I can't move it if she's going to build another...

She is a dream. The most social of all my flock, very docile and gentle, calm but quietly chatty. I don't think she's a bantam but she is definitely small. Half the size of my other breeds. (She was supposed to be an australorp.) And loves heights, began flying much sooner than our other chicks.

Is this a white-faced black Spanish? Thank you.

A farm store.

No.