One of my chickens just started laying and there is something white coming out of her butt, i have looked at pictures of prolapsed vents, and this doesn't look like that. It looks like egg white, could she just have messed up laying an egg? She doesn't look uncomfortable, but I separated her...
I just was checking on chicks and my five week old Rhode Island Red chick is keeping her head tucked underneath her body. It's not behind her wing, like when they sleep sometimes and she refuses to lift her head up. She is moving around a little, but she keeps her head tucked underneath her...
Day old chicks don't really need roost bars, but mine have enjoyed them and I've heard from other people that if they don't have roosts when they are chicks, then they don't really know what to do with them when they are full grown. My roost bars are homemade. I used a big drill bit and put...
It's grogel, I got it at chickensforbackyards.com, the same place I bought the chicks. They say it's good for hydrating the chicks after shipping and that it's got a lot of good nutrients in it.
My five little chicks arrived at the post office on Tuesday, March 6. They were all peeping loudly! They were incredibly fluffy and they had little sticks sticking out of their wings where the pin feathers would come in. They are growing really fast! They are five days old and some already have...
I don't think that is a dark brahma, I have a 2 day old dark brahma chick, you can see in my picture, she is the chick on the left. She has feathered feet and she is much darker, she also has some yellow around her beak