Ok my cochin is sitting on 12 eggs and today i checked on her and heard peeping so i picked her up to look and she has pooped all over her eggs! Is that going to hurt them? Also this is my first time with hatching and the one egg in the middle that is all chipped up is that normal for them when...
I'm sure all of them will get it I know all of mine did. The one I lost im not 100% sure it was because of the IB Bc it didn't seem real sick but I woke up one morning and it was dead. I think it was like 8-10wks old. All of mine stopped laying completely and then they started back about 8wks later
You can give an antibiotic to them to help fight any secondary infection but other then that mine just got better on their own. I did lose one young chicken but the rest survived.
They are doing much better! I lost one of my barred rocks but I'm not sure if it was sick or not because it seemed fine then it was dead. But the rest of them got over the sickness and have started laying eggs again! I was so worried they would never lay again because it got to where they...
. Finally got my first carton full!! I have two EEs ,a blue cochin, and a red sex link laying! I have two more EEs another blue cochin and a barred rock that needs to hurry up!
I have been free ranging for about 4months now and two days ago my rooster vanished so now I'm so scared to let my hens out! I feel like free ranging is better for them but I don't want them picked off one by one.