Hey everyone
So my friends dog killed a mummy partridge and left 8 eggs they were only 5 days from hatching so I quickly got them into my incubator and prayed they hadn't died..... well they hadn't and now I've got some baby partridges on my hands and I'm wondering if I'd need any sort of...
hello this is a friend's hen who has recant come down with something
We don't quite know what it is wrong
She is acting docile and is gasping for air we have moved her to a box in the house to keep her away from the others but don't know how to help her recover
Please help
Hoppingchicks
Hi, I've just had a broody hatch some eggs out everything was going great until..... I checked one of the chicks out it seems to have some swelling just behind its ear hole it's kind of soft and feels like fluid I'm just a bit concerned as I have never felt anything like it on a chick before
This might seem an odd question but is there a way to get hens to be broody..... as I haven't had any of my own hens become broody in the last two years I get a lot of eggs but as of yet I haven't had any go broody and I would love to have a mum running around with some chicks
anyway.....all...
I have about 6 duck eggs in the incubator at the moment and a couple are near to hatching.........but I also have a hen that has been broody for about 3 and a half weeks unfortunately the eggs she was on don't seem to be fertile and I was wondering if there is any way to transfer the eggs to...
Hi there these are my new chick's that I hatched 3 months ago
The first one is caramel the second one is vanilla (I promise she was white when she was hatched) and the third is coffee
Hi all
I am recently incubating some eggs and I want my chicks to have the best start in life I have an old hamster/guineapig cage that I'm hoping to use for the first few weeks/months.....
I don't know what is the best bedding for young chicks and what to put food and water in.......
look...
Hi
I was checking up on my girl's and I notest a few of them looking quite rough... I checked under the feathers and there were quite a few lice
I wondered if there were any home remerdies I could try......I have already put some dust bathing spots around and sprayed the roosting bar
but if...
I recently got 5 new chickens and I noticed one had its tail missing, about a week later one of the original hens started having her tail pecked out, i noted that was only one of the hens doing the pecking, is there any way to stop this thankyou hoppingchicks
so my eggs finally hatched, but I noticed one of the chicks feet were strange, it has an extra toe
I was a bit worried, is it a deformity or is it genetic? (oh her dad has five toes too
that's why I thought it might be genetic)
and this is his/her sibling.
she/he has fluffy feet...
hay my hen has been acting strangely she seems reluctant to come out of the coup and she is sleeping a lot, I'm getting a bit worried, its been about 4 days since this has been happening
please help
thank you
hoppingchicks
Hi, I have 4 chickens 3 hens and a cockerel two are new.
Ever since I was young I have had chickens around me,
and I just love looking after them and watching them
around the garden.