Recent content by Duckchick2011

The chick passed away. :/ It wasn't even fully developed.

Day 23. The chick is still alive and kicking, but still no sign of pipping.

Same here. :)

Thank you, Losing a batch is always so frustrating. Sad too. I was looking forward to seeing the little peepers. I guess I'll just have to wait. Nice to know they can still make it if they hatch late. Day 21, still no sign of pipping, but as long as it's still alive I'm going to keep the...

Hey guys, I've got a little bit of an interesting situation. I'm not entirely sure what is going on so I'm going to share some details and see if you guys can help me figure this out. Alright, so me and my dad built our own incubator. It seemed to work fine so we ordered some eggs and popped...

I bought her from a poultry swap about 3 weeks ago. I'm still trying to figure out where she came in contact with the disease. :/ Did some reading on Coryza, did some reading on MG...both sound like they could be the culprit. How would I distinguish?

I've got a little 8 week old chick with serious congestion. She is sneezing, her nose is runny, and her entire face around her eyes is pretty swollen. Despite all this she has no fever, seems to be eating fine, and still wants to follow me around everywhere. In fact she seems pretty vigorous for...

Hi! I just ordered some bantam Polish eggs offline. They came in good shape BUT some of them are kinda big. They are about the size of a medium/small standard egg. Is that normal? Is it possible I received a few standard eggs instead somehow???

Well today would be the second day of no seizures(so far) She looks much much better! No more ticking, all the lethargy she had is gone. She is now very very curious about everything and hunting down bugs when I bring her outside. She seems even better than when I first brought her home. She...

I'm a beginner and it Just seems like I've had terrible luck picking chickens lately. One chick run down and another hen I just bought might be sick too. Maybe not though. She's in quarantine until I'm sure. I don't think I will be getting too many more chickens any time soon but still, the...

You right, It's been a test to balance everything but I think I finally have a system that works. ^.^ This morning everyone is cared for and I get a second to sit down on the computer before my day starts.

Well she looks better today. She woke up and is eating, drinking, and walking around normal. I'm starting to think she is just prone to seizures. I think maybe stress sets them off I guess. I will keep her under a close eye the rest of the week and see how things go. Thank everyone for all...

Hmmmm...do you mean to say that she could just be "having seizures" and there not be one specific cause...like she's epileptic or something? Just to re-cap: It started with her jerking her neck to one side over and over again. (spasms) She never lost consciousness. Today she had a real fit...

Could she be broody? Just a thought.

Gave her the save a chick but she isn't thirsty right now. She keeps leaning against the wall of her box. Always on her left side. I'm actually starting to wonder if this is a head injury? She was pecked pretty good by an older hen today, and it wasn't too long after that that she started...