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Thank you for your help. Nutridrench is a wonderful thing.

Thank you so very much for your reply. I did drop the temp down to 93 degrees with a small cooling period. I just wanted to make sure that 93 wouldn't be too warm for her. The last thing she needed was to overheat as well.

So I had an order of peeps shipped and they ended up at the wrong post office. When we got them home, all were doing well except one. She is a bit smaller than the others and barely moving when they arrived. I gave her some sugar water to pep her up and popped her in the incubator to get...

Each Rooster is their own and I have had some brothers with very different personalities but I have found over the years that it is their raising as much as breed that can affect their overall personality. Now when looking for a Rooster, I try to find one that has been hen raised and/or lived...

I got into raising chickens because we were the only family in my son's Montessori school that lived in the country and they needed somewhere for those silkie babies to go once they started to stink up the classroom. Good thing we lived in the country because we had 3 Roosters in the bunch...

Pretty cool idea.:thumbsup

I have a rooster who is entirely blind due to a fox attack. He lives with a very elderly silkie rooster and a couple of silkie hens. As long as I keep his coop the same he does well. I do have to carry him in at night as he isn't always able to find his way back into the coop. I have never...

When I have to introduce one to a larger flock, what I do is pick one of the birds from the big flock and introduce her to the one so they become a pair. Then I introduce the pair together. This seems to work really well and it gives my lone chicken a friend while they are transitioning and...

One suggestion that you might consider depending on where you live and such is flies. I live in the deep south and any wounds tend to bring the flies. I usually treat with vetrycin and then put a small amount of SWAT to keep the flies out. I will then sometimes give some Apple cider vinegar...

Not 100 percent sure but he likes to swing his toys and then stand under them to use them as a back scratcher. Ever since he gave himself a black eye with one about 20 year ago, I try to keep his toys fairly light. It may have hit himself with a toy. We also had a young kitten who liked to...

Mine loves peas, bananas, apples, cooked carrots and rice. I have had him for 35 years. He started out on a seed diet as there were no pelleted diets back then. Then i switched him to the ZuPreem pelleted diet which he was on for probably 15 years until he became sick. He developed a...

What brand of pelleted diet do you feed?

Looks more chicken than duck to me but I am no expert. Do you have a thermometer that you can keep the heat lamp set so that you don't get the egg too hot or too cold. If its moving it may be close to hatching. You also might want to but a damp rag in with it to up the humidity a little...

I have a 35 year old African Grey named Walter. Well many months ago I had him on a specific type of feed and he became ill. After an expensive round with the vet we got him healed up and feeling better. (We didn't think that it had anything to do with the food as he had also gotten a...

I have had some luck using the lures to lure them right into my chicken pen where my girls enjoy the extra snack. I will also go out and shake the trees but then I put them in a bucket of plain water and bring them to my girls. Its like cereal in milk. They gobble them up pretty quickly...

Oh, we would love to see pictures of your sweet thing....:love

I think either would work although often places will not sell a single chick as they need friends (as you know or you wouldn't be asking). I would probably do two new ones for a trio but I have done a single chick added to make a pair. Do what you want, the chick will do fine with either...

You also might consider a good ole mutt chicken. That hybrid vigor seems to add alot. I started with several pure breeds, tried a heritage breed which failed miserably, but since I had them in with some other breeds, I have a few mixed breeds which seem to do amazing. So you might consider...

I currently have 4 roosters in 2 pens and have raised many more. What we have found works pretty well is to let the kids love on them as much as they want until they are about 8 weeks old, give or take. Then when they go out to the main coop we take a hands off approach. When they are young...

What is your coop like? Generally that is the age that I move mine out to the grow out coop (My brooder is also in the barn but I do have a heat source for that. One of the things I do when I am transitioning is to let them out all day and then bring them in at night for just a few days...