Recent content by Vanessa373

I set 16 eggs in the incubator 22 days ago. I candled before lockdown and there were 11 that were definitely viable, 5 questionable. I left them all in there. 1 hatched early on day 20 (Friday), another one hatched early on day 21 (yesterday). None of the others even appear to have pipped yet...

Thanks for the advice. I’m perplexed by the fact that all of the Wyandotte eggs in the same incubator are fully developed, but all the Orpington eggs pretty much look like this. I wouldn’t have thought breed mattered either but seems so strange that some stopped developing when they’ve all been...

I’ve got 24 eggs in my Janoel 24, 10 buff orpingtons and 14 Wyandottes. I purchased the fertilised eggs locally. I candled at day 7 and all looked good. I just candled again at say 18 ready for lockdown and it looks to me like all but 1 of the buff orpingtons have stopped developing but all of...

Thank you so much for your detailed response, it’s much appreciated! I’m in Australia, I’ll update my profile with that info, thanks for the tip. She hasn’t displayed any other broody behaviour (still laying, we never find her in the nest box for hours on end like we do with some of our other...

Thank you for the response. A lot of people have said she’s trying to crow but she makes the noise all day every day so I didn’t think that’s what it was!

My Araucana hen has started making this noise over the last week. I work from home and she makes this noise a lot, at all times of the day. At first I thought it may have been a respiratory illness but no other birds in my flock have any symptoms. There’s a smaller almost cough noise (at the...

We’re on the mid north coast of Australia so it’s summer, but mild, minimum temps around 15’c, max around 25’c. None of the hens or roosters molted this year, we’ve had very unusual temperatures. He’s had plenty of access to water. We had a housesitter looking after the animals while we were...

Hi All, I’m still quite new to backyard chickens so I’m hoping someone can help me to understand what may be wrong with my rooster. We just returned from 3 weeks holiday & he’s looking very dishevelled. He’s missing a lot of feathers from his chest/neck, his comb has flopped over & the tips...

My broody buff Orpington is sitting on 5 fertilised eggs, she started sitting on 2 so I put 3 more under her 2 days later. It’s my first time hatching chicks! After reading up on various threads I’ve moved her & the brood box to a separate small coop, next to the free range run. Will she...

Is it likely that she’s egg bound when she’s never laid an egg before? Her comb never turned red like our other chickens did when they started laying so I’m not sure

Advice needed from a new chicken owner regarding a sick chook please. All info below: -She is a buff orpington, 8 months old, very underweight compared to her sister of the same age & breed -She is very lethargic, still up & walking around & pecking but the last few nights hasn’t gotten...

There are 7 hens, 2 buff orpingtons not pictured. They’re all 10 months old. Only the hens free range but I want to get the cockerels out to free range too but wanted to check in with the experts on here first before just popping them in the free range paddock all together.

Thanks for the advice! We’re on the east coast of Australia. We know it’s unlikely the roosters will get along forever but I’m willing to try in the beginning rather than sacrificing one of the boys straight away! Here is a photo of our setup. The triangle cage is where the roosters are now...

Hi Everyone, I’m after some advice. We got 5 baby chicks in Sept to add to our flock & unfortunately 3 were taken by a quoll or something that dug under our secure coop. The 2 remaining ones have turned out to be roosters! We have a flock of 7 hens that we want to introduce the roosters to. The...

Thanks everyone!