Anyone have any idea what this might be? She’s had it at least five days. She has no respiratory symptoms. She is 1-2 years old. Other side of the face is normal. She does not act sick. Is laying. I have around 200 chickens. None of the others have this.
I have a Lavendar Orpington Roo that hatched the end of May. I gave him to a woman who was looking for a rooster to protect her small flock of hens. He was the biggest roo of any breed of my spring chickens (appx 150 chickens). The woman actually just recently brought him back because he...
I have two gilts around 9 months old who are ready to be bred (one may be bred already to our American Guinea Boar). We've moved to a new farm and need to get the place in order without fear these guys will keep escaping the fence as we are now near a busy road. We are very close to I79 and...
Whatever happened with this? I'm having the same thing. 6 hatched yesterday and something like 40 are doing nothing. There were temperature spikes everytime a chick hatched--did that kill the others?
Well, I think I should post what it was so others can find this if they have this problem. When reading many of the slipped tendon threads, I noticed that lots of people were putting neosporin on their slipped tendons. I assumed that was because there was some kind of injury that caused the...
My son's Phoenix hen developed some kind of eye problem early on--probably around 8 weeks. I cannot remember. At any rate, I put neosporin on it as some websites recommended and eventually she did go blind. The eye kind of grayed over and if she were a child I would assume she could see light...
Hello, what should I do for this chick? It's not splayed and I'm not positive she was like this when she got here. The chicks keep running all over the place and these poor little naked necks just seem to fall asleep right in the middle of the brooder. It could have been from a chick zooming...
I wanted to say too that I had a hawk in my yard this past Tuesday. We heard the birds screaming and rushed into the yard. My favorite (of course) bird had gone back in the coop and was screaming to beat the band. I ran to her and got her out. Though she had gotten up on the roost herself...
I love these and am getting ready to make one. Can you tell me how many hens you have in each? Also, what kind of fencing are you using? Do you have any pictures of inside/layout?
Thanks!